Example sentences of "[art] [num] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But selling more slaves would have done it little good if it could not get paid for them , and in the 1680s the planters owed the company money for two full years supply of slaves . |
| 2 | Until the 1640s the colonies had taken it for granted that they would trade only with England , partly because Charles 's government gave orders that they should , partly because the hostile Spanish colonies offered them no real alternative . |
| 3 | By the 1870's the entries had dwindled , or were missing altogether in some months . |
| 4 | Throughout the thirties the Germans had been eager to displace the British . |
| 5 | In the 1830s the farmers of Burwell fen began to realize that they were missing out on the prosperity achieved through drainage by their neighbours at Swaffham . |
| 6 | In the 1890s the Kaszubians emerged from the fog of feudal serfdom and manorial labour . |
| 7 | In the 1890s the brothers William and Robert Smith ( 1866–1928 and 1873–1900 ) , influenced by the sociological approach of Patrick Geddes and by reading Warming 's work , instituted botanical surveys of Scotland and of Yorkshire . |
| 8 | By the 1890s the seats of sexual respectability were seen by reformers such as Grant Allen to rest in the lower middle class and the upper working class , but in the latter there was no simple acceptance of middle-class norms . |
| 9 | By the 1890s the wives of skilled men did not usually work , for the ability to keep a wife had become a measure of working class male respectability . |
| 10 | In the 70s the efforts of the locals were eclipsed by the activities in North Wales and the Peak . |
| 11 | Predictably , the styling rework has done the look of the 911 no favours : rehashing a beautiful original rarely does . |
| 12 | By the 1870s the Primitives were strongly associated with agricultural trade unionism and the pulpit offered many an articulate labourer his first chance at public speaking . |
| 13 | In the seventies the women 's movement exposed the prevalence of violence against women and provided safe passage in the network of refuges which exist in about a hundred cities . |
| 14 | By the 1740s the numbers were increasing , although the best women poets , including Mary Leapor and Mary Jones , tended to be rather behind the times , modelling their work on Pope and Swift rather than responding to the new trend toward sensibility at mid-century . |
| 15 | In the 1812 the members of the Academy , trained on quite different repertory , let their hair down in playing that is both crisp and alert , obviously enjoying their outing into this pop repertory . |
| 16 | Since the 1940s the Roos and District Horticultural Society has attracted impressive entries in its Annual Shows . |
| 17 | In the 1760s the Physiocrats in France laid much of the ideological foundation for a new form of monarchy by popularizing ideas of a natural social order which could be easily discovered by the use of the human intelligence and which all unbiased men of goodwill must support . |
| 18 | The costs of ruling an " empire " were high , but for a time in the 1760s the revenues of northern India were almost self-supporting , with no bullion being exported in 1767 – . |
| 19 | Lane argues that up to the middle of the 1970s the conditions of employment of part-time and temporary workers were reasonably protected by the state balancing the interests of capital and labour . |
| 20 | The relevant pressure groups maintain their vigilance , but during the 1970s the changes in the rural landscape , especially in the lowlands , have become much more visible and have certainly received much more publicity . |
| 21 | In the 1970s the Conservatives floated an alternative approach , a form of negative income tax called ‘ tax credits ’ , and implemented a means-tested benefit for poor wage-earners , ‘ family income supplement ’ . |
| 22 | In the 1970s the odds had lengthened against effective leadership from the White House ; there had been a succession of failed presidencies public confidence in political institutions had slumped disastrously and congress had become even more difficult to deal with . |
| 23 | For the CNAA 's relationships with the polytechnics in the 1970s the uncertainties surrounding this question , and the different interpretations of it by different polytechnic directors and within the CNAA itself , were to be of central importance . |
| 24 | During the 1970S the ramifications of some communications policies were perceived dimly , if at all . |
| 25 | In the 1970s the courts embarked on a massive extension of the builder 's liability in negligence . |
| 26 | By the 1970s the goal-posts of political debate had been momentously shifted . |
| 27 | From its inception through the late 1960s and into the 1970s the courses proposed to , and approved by , the CNAA remained predominantly in science and technology . |
| 28 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 29 | By the end of the 1970S the additions to the housing stock had been so considerable that arguments were increasingly heard that Britain had enough houses . |
| 30 | And in Sweden , although in the 1930s unions and managements found common ground in their efforts to increase efficiency under capitalism and avoid state intervention in their relationship , since the 1970s the unions have been promoting new socio-political goals . |