Example sentences of "[art] [num] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |
| 2 | After all , back in the Thirties even the holiday posters would tell of ‘ Healthful Hartlepool — the most bracing air in the kingdom ’ . |
| 3 | His Jewish mother had narrowly escaped from Romania in the 19305 when the local Iron Guard goon squad began slaughtering Jews with a barbarity which sickened even their Nazi German allies . |
| 4 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |
| 5 | Neither made a significant provision before 1820 , and their rivalry still persisted in the 1830s when the government began at last to assist them with grants . |
| 6 | Taken together with the replacement of the solid , load-bearing external walls by rows of brick piers flanking narrower infill panels , this development allowed the area of window relative to wall to increase to a maximum in the 1900s when the façades of mills became more glass than brick . |
| 7 | Now , it is not at all surprising that in the 70s both the deep ecologists and the animal liberationists were slow to see that need . |
| 8 | They 'd have the ten o'clock feed and then it , it 'd sleep through till , till the six o'clock the next morning for the next morning feed . |
| 9 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 10 | The madrigal substantially appeared in England only in the 1580s when the English mania for the Italian reached its height — for instance , in the poetry of Spenser and Philip Sidney . |
| 11 | The post , erected in the 1840s when the area was drained , shows the land has sunk some 13ft-14ft — an ominous decline in view of forecasts that global warming may cause the nearby sea to rise . |
| 12 | Robert Kerr caused outrage in the mid-1860s by suggesting that the doctrine of three bedrooms ( stipulated in the 1840s when the blue books revealed a high incidence of incest ) should be abandoned ; but , though the moral problems did not of course vanish , his view came to be increasingly shared . |
| 13 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 14 | A little further on , the small compact settlement of Lea Yeat ( Gate ) is reached , its tranquillity disturbed only in the 1870s when the railway was being constructed across the hillside above . |
| 15 | But its real take-off period was the 1870S when the introduction of a new cooling apparatus and the addition of chemical preservatives to the milk enabled it to be transported very long distances while remaining fresh . |
| 16 | In the Habsburg territories also , as has been seen , a series of able ministers backed by Maria Theresa , the greatest ruler of the dynasty , created from the 1740s onwards a whole range of important new organs of administration ( see pp. 153–4 ) . |
| 17 | On a minor , but parallel line , from the 1740s onwards the aesthetic rich began building rustic , Gothick and Chinese garden houses and this picturesque style slowly crept into small house architecture . |
| 18 | In the mid-1920s only a little over 1 per cent were receiving a formal education . |
| 19 | That Commandos and other Special Forces of World War II were superb light infantry , is a fact all too often forgotten in the fashion of the 1970s when every political cut-throat wants to be called a ‘ commando ’ . |
| 20 | It was created in good part by the situation in the 1970s when a poor match developed between the pressure to lend from donors , and the administrative ability of the borrowing countries to ‘ receive ’ . |
| 21 | It all started in the 1970s when the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory designed a network called the Cambridge Ring . |
| 22 | It is , however , correct that these percentages were at their highest in the 1970s when the number of strikers was also at its highest . |
| 23 | During the détente years of the 1970s when the USSR appeared as a revisionist power in the Third World its interest in neutralisation slackened . |
| 24 | The Ethiopian famine of 1984 — 5 was a more severe relation of the Ethiopian famine of the 1970s yet the latter was consigned to a memory which is rarely mined for information and for the lessons of history . |
| 25 | How about the ten over a hundred what will that come to ? |
| 26 | There 's a very old study by Walker and Guest nineteen fifty-two and I think you might find the findings may reflect the fifties quite a lot , found that seventy percent of assembly line workers erm initiated upwards communication . |
| 27 | It was worked by various tenants until the 1730s when a number of owners culminated with the well-known family of Painswick clothiers , the Packers . |
| 28 | The appointment of Fyfe to Warrington in 1921 was , however , the exception rather than the rule in the 1920s when the majority of missioners appointed or holding the posts were clergymen or hearing persons . |
| 29 | Agriculture , in the 1920s still the occupation of 27% of Americans , suffered a depression throughout the decade . |
| 30 | By the 1660s all the islands were committed to sugar and the white planters were taking drastic steps to prevent their white employees from leaving the islands and tilting the population balance still further towards the black slaves , but this of course made white employees all the more determined to avoid going to the West Indies . |