Example sentences of "[art] [num] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | In the mid-1920s only a little over 1 per cent were receiving a formal education . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | How about the ten over a hundred what will that come to ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His assertion that postwar socialist realism has much to learn from the bourgeois tradition of critical realism marks paradoxically a return to the spirit of the intellectual climate in France in the 1930s when a general belief in the coincidence between the movement of history , socialism and realism led to a fruitful collaboration between the socialist realist writers of the French communist party , such as Aragon and Nizan , and sympathetic fellow-travellers such as Bloch , Malraux and Gide . |
| 10 | The Incident happened in the 1930s when a Hartlepool couple were jailed for attacking a shop owner who 'd remonstrated with them for drinking out of the vinegar bottle . |
| 11 | Without this exodus of labour from Southern Europe , which allowed it to reconstruct a reserve army at home , West German capitalism would have been unable to achieve its formidable expansion of outputs in the 1960s without a catastrophic decline in the rate of profit . |
| 12 | As an example , personal , social and moral education was from the 1960s onwards a field where schools shared their experiences , their approaches and their materials . |
| 13 | Perhaps the biggest event in recent times was in the 1950s when a film company made the church the setting for the film Lease of Life with Robert Donat . |
| 14 | There was a slight hiccup in the 1950s when a good citizen of Edinburgh objected to our bearing the arms . |
| 15 | The first of these , the statistical test controversy , arose in the 1950s when a group of American scholars vigorously attacked the use of such tests , pointing out the difficulty of surveys meeting the strict mathematical requirements demanded by the statistical theory , especially those to do with randomness . |
| 16 | In the 1950s only a quarter of the growth in sales of electricity to domestic consumers came from newly-connected homes and another quarter from the extended use of existing appliances , but as much as half came from newly-purchased appliances . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ Whereas in the previous downturn in the 1980s when a lot of cyclical companies were haemorraging cash , this time the pressure on profits has not been at the expense of their financial position . ’ |
| 18 | Unemployment , now a major problem , was in the mid-seventies only a threat ; privatisation was not an issue ; government attacks on the trade union movement were a thing of the future . |
| 19 | Oh , no I put a six where a five should be , in my pin number , that 's all I did , but I just , I just stood there and my mind just completely went blank , I could n't remember it at all . |
| 20 | Ooh he was saying tha that , that a million not a million old people , blind people sick people , kids |
| 21 | At the departmental level we might have ten a hundred possibly a thousand users but when we go enterprise-wide there may be thousands or many tens of thousands of users . |