Example sentences of "[verb] happened in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem for modern Marxists , however , is that the objective laws which Marx had developed to predict the way in which the capitalist system would develop do not seem to have fully explained what has happened in the twentieth century . |
| 2 | Look what has happened in the last few days . |
| 3 | ‘ Too much has happened in the last year , ’ he said , ‘ and too much change around a candidate is not wise . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You only have to look around , ’ he explained , ‘ and see that something has happened in the last twenty years . ’ |
| 5 | And I think this has been proved you know that ask when people have changed their minds and said I do n't know , that this is what has happened in the last er ten to fifteen years erm and which makes me feel that once again I think that advances can only be evolutionary erm I think that erm , I do n't know if you , anybody saw Joseph Conrad 's erm spy story on the television ? |
| 6 | We all know that Britain will only become a world class economy if we have a strong well-balanced manufacturing base , employing skilled , trained workforce , a workforce which has decent conditions of employment and has legal protection , but we do still have some members within the service sector and within the professional rank and what has happened in the last five or six years to those members ? |
| 7 | Well what , of course , has happened in the last generation or two is the growth of poetry readings . |
| 8 | Now what has happened in the last decade or so , through the advent of radioastronomy , is that we 've discovered that there are vast clouds of molecules between the stars and they 're just chock a block with very intriguing molecules , many of which are just the sort of things we would expect to be in the prebiotic soup . |
| 9 | It is an essential element in the planning cycle to measure the effects of the advertising , as far as possible , together with those of other types of marketing activity , in order to take account of what has happened in the next phase of planning . |
| 10 | And then it would all be over — this crazy situation which should never have happened in the first place . |
| 11 | How on earth would that have happened in the first instance ? |
| 12 | Had Gooch not been injured who knows what would have happened in the last two games ; but then , West Indies had their share of injuries , too . |
| 13 | Any major phases or colonisation are as likely to have taken place in the seventh , eighth or ninth centuries , as Peter Sawyer has suggested , and therefore to be undocumented , as they are to have happened in the thirteenth century , when we hear of them for the first time from surviving records . |
| 14 | What appears to have happened in the last week of the campaign is that a large proportion of the ‘ Do n't Knows ’ plumped for the Conservatives , possibly in fear of rumoured Labour tax rises . |
| 15 | His one serious love affair had happened in the first year of the war with a girl younger than himself whom he had thought he loved . |
| 16 | What had happened in the nineteenth century was a relaxation in the definition of orthodoxy : Nonconformists no longer saw their chapels in virtual juxtaposition to the world about them . |
| 17 | So much had happened in the last few months . |
| 18 | In the silence of his shelter he was finally letting the true sorrow he felt for all that had happened in the last months come into him , and he was beginning to grieve . |
| 19 | Quite a few odd things had happened in the last two days and , though this was the first time she 'd admitted it even to herself , she 'd felt vaguely uneasy , threatened , ever since she 'd arrived in Venice . |
| 20 | What had happened in the fourteenth century , mainly French music had become very , very intellectual , very austere , very formal . |
| 21 | ‘ What 's happened in the last 10 years and is accelerating very fast is the fact the women are taking less time off ’ , says Michaels . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ What 's happened in the last 24 hours has been unbelievable . |
| 23 | And if I may Mr chairman , something that 's happened in the last few days , that 's er evident that er the been the first satellite survey in this country ever which is now beginning to show to the nation , just in fact the damage that roads have been doing and that there 's in fact now some suggestion from government that they may be rethinking some elements of these roads , because the environmental impact has not really been taken into account as effectively before . |
| 24 | But there is a new situation emerging because the speakers on the opposite side seem to have forgotten what 's happened in the last two years in Eastern Europe and the European map is getting wider . |