Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1871 there were 166,407 female out-door paupers in England and Wales ; in January 1891 only 53,371 , despite the fact that the policy was pursued less vigorously in the 1880s than in the preceding decade . |
| 2 | Our permanency planning has been a two-stage affair , but we never got our preventive and rehabilitative act together properly in the 1960s . |
| 3 | Japanese economic competition was feared , although the anxiety was based more on memories of competition in the 1930s than the new competition that developed so vigorously in the 1960s . |
| 4 | The trend towards consolidation slowed down somewhat in the 1970s . |
| 5 | The proportions differed only slightly in the 1987 general election . |
| 6 | It has now been conveyed to the rest of us , and we should not too quickly dismiss the thought that this message might resonate usefully in Nicaragua , in Iran and the Lebanon , and perhaps even in the two Germanys . |
| 7 | So why did the British Greens ( to take the national party which won the highest percentage of the vote ) do so well in the 1989 Euro-elections ? |
| 8 | It was unsurprising that , with Johannes Rau as their candidate for Chancellor , they fared even less well in the 1987 election ( with 37 per cent of the vote ) than they had four years before . |
| 9 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 10 | Trained in Ireland at the Cullinane yard for his first run of the 1984–5 season , he was then moved to Paddy Mullins , winning a handicap hurdle at Limerick Junction on his second outing for his new stable before his mood let him down again in the 1985 Gold Cup : he tried to pull himself up after a circuit and was tailed off when refusing at the last fence . |
| 11 | He gave £50 million , which of course made an immense difference to life at the National Gallery , not only in the 1980s but for the future . |
| 12 | Despite their electoral alliance , the UDF and RPR remain divided on many points of policy , not least in the two key areas of Europe and the economy . |
| 13 | Hence , more intensively in the 1900s , MOHs and such voluntary organizations as the Women 's Co-operative Guild and the Infant Health Society gave talks to women , issued leaflets , and established schools to train mothers in childcare and domestic skills . |
| 14 | Glasgow grew ever outwards in the thirties , swallowing up the countryside in huge bites as poured-concrete bungalows sprouted out of the fields of Newlands , Merrylee , Cathcart , and all points south . |
| 15 | While TNC investment in the developing countries levelled off somewhat in the 1980s ( UNCTC , 1988 ) , the growth of export-oriented employment , mainly due to increased TNC activity in export processing ( often referred to as ‘ production sharing ’ in the business press ) continued to be rapid . |
| 16 | If the oboe band was a viable theatrical ensemble as late as 1688 , then it must have been even more so in the 1660s , when the orchestra as we conceive of it was merely starting to come into being . |
| 17 | In the end , the Census Bureau expects to find that the total population is about 250m , is getting older , is still moving from the north-east and midwest to the south and west , and that metropolitan areas grew more rapidly in the 1980s than in the 1970s . |
| 18 | Indeed Franco-Russian disputes on this issue flared up briefly once more in the 1760s and were not finally laid to rest until 1772 . |
| 19 | He had , after all , surpassed himself once more in the 1991 Ryder Cup by winning 4½ points out of 5 . |
| 20 | It widened still further in the 1980s as sales of the Mirror fell . |
| 21 | Muslins and calicoes became the fashionable fabrics , and under the determined leadership of Sir Josiah Child profits went up sharply if not always regularly in the 1670s and 1680s , so that the price of shares rose ninefold between 1660 and 1685 . |
| 22 | After 1360 and more particularly in the 1370s the war went badly for England . |
| 23 | It can be observed , however , that minimum late fetal mortality falls more frequently in the 20–24 years age group in the European countries than in countries of other continents where the nadir more often occurs at ages 25–29 . |
| 24 | Berkeley wrote more fully in the Three Dialogues , but this work was unfortunately hardly better understood than the Principles itself . |
| 25 | To these ends , other means have been developed over the years , most assiduously in the three Northern Tier states . |
| 26 | Lining up tonight in the 450 metres event are the highly-rated Belle Vue racer No Joe Soap , Powderhall 's Rhincrew Legend , Dawn Milligan 's Smashiton , Sheffield-based Ragus and Gordon Rooks ' Movealong Sharp , which won three on the trot at the East Boldon circuit before losing on the run-in last week . |
| 27 | They trembled not from fear , but from anger and resentment which had built up rapidly in the 24 hours since he had heard the ridiculous order from Washington . |
| 28 | The duke 's London residence was Essex House , the property of his brother-in-law , Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , another of Rose 's employers , who encouraged him to the extent of sending him to France for the first time , probably early in the 1640s . |
| 29 | Problems flared up again in the 430s , when the Bacaudae gained a leader called Tibatto . |
| 30 | I believe that we have fallen badly behind in the three important areas of economic development , social policies and , sadly , the quality of our democracy . |