Example sentences of "[prep] the [num] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cruised through the 1930s ' red brick semis and the 1950s ' concrete estates on the east of the town . |
| 2 | Whatever mitigating justifications could be cited in favour of overt action on the campus , in much of the 1960s ' action , students were often reducing other students ' right to learn , were therefore abusing their freedoms and were , as such , forfeiting their own rights as students . |
| 3 | Apart from the odd wrangle over samples , the two opponents have enjoyed a fairly benign standoff , and thankfully avoided a revival of the late-Seventies ' punk vs disco debate . |
| 4 | Next door was what the children called ‘ The Beatle Room ’ , a room devoted entirely to psychedelic posters , pictures and other memorabilia of the Sixties ' pop stars . |
| 5 | Hall uses the work of the 1920s ' Italian Marxist , Gramsci , to suggest that while new forms of politics are related to economic change and crisis , they can not simply be ‘ read off ’ from such developments . |
| 6 | FNFC , that star of the Seventies ' market crash started life as Birmingham Carriage and Wagon . |
| 7 | The next Lloyd Webber venture is a musical re-working of the Fifties ' Billy Wilder screen classic Sunset Boulevard starring American actress and singer Patti LuPone . |
| 8 | el-Kefevi likewise says that he came in the reign of Mehmed I and adds " during the decade of the 820s ' , which would mean that Fahreddin Acemi arrived in the early 820s . |
| 9 | As a result of the 1950s ' return to : |
| 10 | For some time Judith Cowan 's was synonymous with a certain type of imagery and object making characteristic of the 1980s ' little monkey hands would peep over elliptical edges and scooped out boat shapes would merge with curiously-conceived animals made out of fired papier mâché . |
| 11 | Indeed , despite the Sixties ' experiments with alternative life-styles , the despised suburban style looks like seeing the century through , for all its drawbacks of loneliness , boredom and exasperation , which made the man in the New Yorker cartoon say plaintively at the cocktail party : ‘ I want to talk about something else besides kids and illness ! ’ |
| 12 | The rise in unemployment and the fall in output at the start of the decade could be seen as the low point of a cycle which started with the 1930s ' innovations in chemical industries and light engineering and generated the new consumer durable industries that fuelled the long post-Second-World-War boom . |
| 13 | As a bizarre amalgam of egalitarianism , rebellion , idealism , moral sloth and wanton self-indulgence , rock generated the literati it deserved , from the early-1960s generation of giggly pop scribes ( who pushed the old-school showbusiness correspondents aside ) to the ‘ serious ’ boy obsessives who stumbled from the 1970s ' underground , wielding big neuroses and even bigger words . |
| 14 | His 52.3s win in the under-17s ' 400m earned him the award for the top track athlete in the Northern Division One West match . |
| 15 | In this paper I shall thus look systematically at this break with the aura of high modernist art in the 1920s ' avant-garde and in more recent decades . |
| 16 | Segal describes the ‘ powerful and effective ’ voices of black feminism , and argues that ‘ paying more attention to the needs of Black women on a practical and descriptive level , constantly being vigilant about old assumptions that ‘ we ’ women are white , has become an important aspect of feminism in the eighties ' . |
| 17 | Many firms are also highly geared , having borrowed to expand their businesses in the 1980s ' boom and now , with incomes falling , interest payments are almost impossible to meet . |
| 18 | The latter opens with a lilting waltz before breaking into a sun-drenched pop anthem , a warm and welcome blood relative to The B-52s ' own ‘ Love Shack ’ . |
| 19 | This dire short-term market squeeze has at least temporarily put paid to the idea that the building society industry is making a graceful adaptation to the 1980s ' deregulation of the financial services market . |
| 20 | These are the people who missed out on the Eighties ' boom and who are now being hit hardest by the recession . |
| 21 | ‘ Anecdotal ’ became a dirty word among the 1950s ' avant-garde . |