Example sentences of "between [num] [coord] [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another , less charitable , view suggests that because of lack of ministerial direction — occasioned in part because there were no fewer than four different Secretaries of State between 1972 and 1978 and lack of consultative machinery between the DES and those most closely affected in the colleges , little attempt was made to anticipate events which should have been foreseen much earlier . |
| 2 | Farm income doubled between 1940 and 1943 while farm debts shrank to half the figure of the early depression period . |
| 3 | The conventional view has been that political strife was so intense between 1689 and 1715 because party divisions cut deep into society ; all elements of the population , from the gentry , through to the merchants , professionals , artisanal and trading classes , the small farmers , right down to the " mob " , were caught up in the rage of party . |
| 4 | Gas lighting was installed between 1865 and 1868 and electricity arrived in 1890 . |
| 5 | Mining employment in the region declined by more than 50% , between 1966 and 1976 but manufacturing employment held up with an overall decline of just 5% , despite a significant decline in the major traditional sectors of shipbuilding , chemicals and metals manufacturing . |
| 6 | While just under one in five ( 17 per cent ) of all persons in Great Britain are over pension age , they comprise more than one in four of those living on incomes on or below the social assistance level ( supplementary benefit between 1966 and 1988 and income support thereafter ) , and one in three of those living in poverty according to this definition or on the margins of poverty ( i.e. with incomes of up to 40 per cent above the appropriate social assistance rates ) . |
| 7 | The coup attempt followed a prolonged period of economic recession within Trinidad and Tobago , which saw gross national product ( GNP ) fall by more than 30 per cent between 1982 and 1990 and unemployment rise to over 22 per cent . |