Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this work she received two shillings and sixpence per week , quite a nice sum for the 1880's when farm workers were expected to bring up families on twelve shillings a week . |
| 2 | Bangkok was lowered by about 1.5 metres during the 1970's after groundwater beneath the city was pumped out . |
| 3 | As a result , the USA suffered a net outflow of gold in every year but one during the 1960s as pressure of the kind described by Triffin built up . |
| 4 | And I sort of started to get itchy feet to come back and do things in the early eighties and that 's when I went to Liverpool , I did a play with , I did Alfie with Alan who just directed the Commitments and er we went to a b and that really got me fired up to start again , and I sort of did some theatre stuff through the bits and pieces through the eighties until Love Hurts came . |
| 5 | Their pessimism comes amid estimates that cereal production could reach almost 190m tonnes by the end of the '90s unless action is taken , warns the European Commission , following forecasts drawn up by officials in Brussels . |
| 6 | At home many Americans feared a return to the depression conditions of the 1930s as war production slowed down . |
| 7 | Without oxygen we were limited to 10,000 feet , but the published ceiling is FL360 at max weight , increasing well into the forties as fuel is burned . |
| 8 | The problem was worsened in the big city centres by the inflation of land prices from the 1860s as demand for shop , office and factory building mounted . |
| 9 | The failure of the Royal Commission 's own research to support their advocacy of large-scale units of local government led to scepticism in the 1970s as opinion swung away from a belief in bigness as a correlate of efficiency and progress . |
| 10 | GaAs was first used successfully in the 1960s for instrument applications such as light-emitting diodes , lasers , visual display units and audio disc players . |
| 11 | Minimalist works were originally made in the Sixties for loft spaces . |
| 12 | The incident has revived memories of the dark days in the sixties when foot and mouth threatened to wipe out millions of pounds worth of beef and dairy cattle . |
| 13 | Opera was rejected in the 60s because modernism found its dependence on human emotions embarrassing and messy , and because it seemed politically inept — a medium housed in monuments to the establishment and inadequate for the expression of political ideologies . |
| 14 | This policy was later reversed in the 1970's when procurement was transferred to a department within the Ministry of Defence . |
| 15 | ‘ The estate was mortgaged up to the hilt in the thirties when farming was n't paying . |
| 16 | National Savings were particularly competitive in the 1980's when emphasis was placed on raising government funds from this source , largely because it relieved the need somewhat to borrow from the banking system which created credit and therefore inflationary conditions , and because of the fear that government borrowing in the long-term capital markets would tend to ‘ crowd-out ’ industrial and commercial companies from that market , and impede their ability to raise funds for capital investment and long-term growth . |
| 17 | Thalidomide , the drug prescribed in the Fifties for morning sickness , is the most infamous example . |
| 18 | However traffic conditions were changing in the Fifties as car ownership increased , both reducing passengers and increasing road traffic at the same time . |
| 19 | If that sounds nauseatingly juvenile , it had a certain aptness in the Fifties when marriage was for many an institution for recreating one 's childhood and centering life once more on the nursery . |
| 20 | A number of Royalist prisoners from the civil wars in England and Ireland were transported to the sugar islands in the 1650s as convict labour with the prospect of eventual release to become part of the white garrison , but this barely covered the losses from death and emigration . |
| 21 | Not even poverty , for though by the standards of the middle classes all of them had modest incomes — except in such a paradise of labour as Australia in the 1850s where newspaper compositors could earn up to £18 a week — by the standards of the poor there was a vast difference between the well-paid and more or less regularly employed skilled ‘ artisan ’ , who wore a copy of respectable middle-class costume on Sundays or even on the way to and from work , and the ragged starveling who hardly ever knew where his , still less his family 's , next meal was to come from . |
| 22 | In the 1860s before Haussmannization had taken effect , class barriers were strong enough so that the ‘ public idiom ’ still was not satisfactorily standardized . |
| 23 | It also seems that the pressures have increased since the 1970s as manufacturing firms especially have reduced their labour force and no worker wants to be nominated for early retirement or transfer . |
| 24 | There is more to the YF-22 than stealth . |
| 25 | Purists are giving the thumbs up to the Everton away strip in salmon and navy which , according to Umbro , harks back to the 1880s for inspiration , while Man Utd 's basic blue and Ipswich Town 's nod towards the Thirties also appeal . |
| 26 | Masters champion Couples coasted to a 66 while Love , the US No 2 , chipped in with a 68 for the Americans to set the first round pace with a combined 10 under par total of 134 . |
| 27 | Italy and Switzerland electrified their main-line railways early in this century , but the UK had to wait till the 1960s for electrification from London to north-west England , and the late 1980s to Yorkshire . |
| 28 | At a time when what would seem to have been a ‘ Carolingian connection ’ can be identified in insular art , architecture and archaeology , a Carolingian emphasis on the importance of increasing the number of metropolitans and re-establishing metropolitan authority is likely to have created a context by the mid-780s for consideration of the situation in the Anglo-Saxon Church where the archbishop of Canterbury presided over as many as twelve suffragans . |
| 29 | The CLI command file is not actually executed by the CLI until control is passed to it . |