Example sentences of "[prep] the [num] ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She cruised through the 1930s ' red brick semis and the 1950s ' concrete estates on the east of the town . |
| 2 | Hall uses the work of the 1920s ' Italian Marxist , Gramsci , to suggest that while new forms of politics are related to economic change and crisis , they can not simply be ‘ read off ’ from such developments . |
| 3 | For some time Judith Cowan 's was synonymous with a certain type of imagery and object making characteristic of the 1980s ' little monkey hands would peep over elliptical edges and scooped out boat shapes would merge with curiously-conceived animals made out of fired papier mâché . |
| 4 | As a bizarre amalgam of egalitarianism , rebellion , idealism , moral sloth and wanton self-indulgence , rock generated the literati it deserved , from the early-1960s generation of giggly pop scribes ( who pushed the old-school showbusiness correspondents aside ) to the ‘ serious ’ boy obsessives who stumbled from the 1970s ' underground , wielding big neuroses and even bigger words . |
| 5 | The latter opens with a lilting waltz before breaking into a sun-drenched pop anthem , a warm and welcome blood relative to The B-52s ' own ‘ Love Shack ’ . |