Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a modest sprinter himself back in the fifties and early sixties , once reaching the final of the Middlesex Championships . |
| 2 | ‘ I ‘ discovered ’ them back in the mid-'70s , playing in a club called Cinderella 2 . |
| 3 | Ivanisevic has the backing of Boris Becker , three-times All England King who edged him out in the 1990 semis . |
| 4 | Ralph had laid it down in the 1950s . |
| 5 | Personally , I will never forget the sight of Yannick Noah , the French Davis Cup captain , leaping almost four feet off the ground to acclaim the first and the seemingly impossible French victory in the Davis Cup since the ‘ Three Musketeers ’ carried it off in the thirties . |
| 6 | Look it up in the six textbooks mentioned in chapter 4 , draw a pattern diagram and study the rays or branches one by one , committing part to memory and part to short notes for further use . |
| 7 | In the summer of ‘ 86 there was something called the Harmonic Convergence , which was supposed to usher in the Age of Aquarius — people who were going on about it back in the 60s jumped the gun by about 20 years . |
| 8 | In this paper we shall argue that the Act must be understood in terms of themes , issues , developments and conflicts that emerged in the 1970s , and worked themselves out in the 1980s . |