Example sentences of "it had [vb pp] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Europe made it clear that it would continue to defer to the leadership of the United States in the ‘ peace process ’ , as it had done in the 1970s . |
| 2 | It marked it out as a patriotic party , in contrast to the general image it had earned during the 1920s . |
| 3 | The time had come , Pravda argued , for a return to the essence of socialism , and for a break with the distorted form it had acquired during the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 4 | In France the factionalism from which the country suffered was largely inspired by the nobility , so that command of the army , as the tragedy experienced at Agincourt in 1415 demonstrated , was chiefly in the hands of noble leaders who gave the army a character as noble as it had had in the 1330s . |
| 5 | This system no longer had quite such a regional character as it had had in the 1890s because local banks were already becoming part of the national system of clearing banks which was to take shape during the First World War . |