Example sentences of "[verb] happened in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot has happened in the seven months since Ford unveiled its new Escort range — and not much of it in accordance with its £1 billion master plan . |
| 2 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 3 | So what has happened in the three decades that have passed ? |
| 4 | Sometimes , as in England , country girls became more literate than country boys — this seems to have happened in the 1850s . |
| 5 | Memories of what had happened in the 1290s , when John Balliol was a vassal king and Edward I intervened all too directly in Scottish affairs , produced a careful spelling-out of the Scottish position . |
| 6 | And she needed that sort of help ; because although nothing had happened in the four days since Adam had returned from Starr Hills , the nights were becoming more than she could bear . |
| 7 | They recognise full well that , if that had happened in the 1950s , 1960s or 1970s , the story of this country in Europe and of the Community would have been different . |