Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 2 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 3 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 4 | Next season they will replace Wigan , who finished below them in the four club ballot held during the league 's annual meeting at Preston . |
| 5 | Since 1947 a total of about 570 has been recorded , about a third of them in the two severe winters of early 1956 ( c. 44 birds ) , and 1962/63 ( c. 154 birds ) . |
| 6 | ‘ What we found initially was that individual mussel meats were small because there were so many of them in the one place . |
| 7 | There were a record 220 entries , 53 of them in the under-seventeen section , with the youngest entrant aged just ten . |
| 8 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 9 | From a practical point of view , however , you can not have a public inquiry into every accident — though heaven knows there were enough of them in the 1950s — so the alternative is an inquiry held in private . |
| 10 | In 1980–81 , for example , there were 62,000 students in Wales following non-advanced courses , the majority of them in the 35 colleges , as compared with 14,000 on advanced courses . |
| 11 | But it was vigorous criticism of him in the 1922 Committee by Tory back-benchers which convinced Brittan — and Mrs Thatcher — that he no longer enjoyed the confidence of the party in Parliament . |
| 12 | Oh yes , yes oh yes a lot of it in the thirties , tremendous amount of unemployment . |
| 13 | The particular themes of PNP needs , curriculum , teaching strategies , home and school — remain areas of central concern , and about each of them there is now a substantial body of conceptual and empirical material to be tapped , some of it in the twelve PRINDEP reports . |
| 14 | United Parcel Service is to invest more than £15,000 in Langholm this year , most of it in the sevens , which will be played on 1 May ( 2pm ) . |
| 15 | He became increasingly preoccupied with his mistress , Alice Perrers , and could no longer offer the leadership which had united the nobility behind him in the 1340s and 1350s . |
| 16 | He had ‘ guested ’ for the Palace effectively during the 1st World War and proved his ability in the best possible way for Northampton Town against us in the two seasons immediately after it so , when Manager Edmund Goodman needed a duality centre-forward to replace Bert Menlove , who had moved to 1st Division Sheffield United in March 1922 , he acted with decision and haste . |
| 17 | Samuel , who lived with his mother until 1652 or later , collaborated with her in the 1640s in campaigning for religious freedom and upholding the autonomy of individual congregations . |
| 18 | He has always had a high reputation in England and the Covent Garden Orchestra were obviously eager to work with him in the 1950s . |
| 19 | He replied : ‘ I do n't agree with it , I did n't agree with it in the '80s , I was a minority view in the '80s , I am not a minority view now — and anyway I am in a better position to expound my views . ’ |
| 20 | I did not agree with it in the 1980s . |
| 21 | These are now part of planning history , but it is live history : the issues are still very much with us in the 1980s , and there is no guarantee that the current resolution of them will prove sufficiently resilient to withstand the unpredictable changes in the context within which they operate . |
| 22 | He was retained by the king as one of his serjeants between 1287 and 1293 and is to be found acting for him in the 1287 Gloucestershire eyre and in the northern circuit eyres of 1292–3 as well as in the Common Bench and in the Exchequer . |
| 23 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 24 | But why did the theories of feminism develop in response to them in the 1960s and not , say , in the 1930s when novelists cast an equally critical eye over women 's lives ? |
| 25 | All voluntary organizations in the community care field face an uncertain though challenging future as a result of the government 's encouragement to them in the 1990 Act to take a more active , participative role in providing services directly to clients in the community , with finance provided by the local authority or health authority . |
| 26 | It was certainly a source of great pride to me in the nineteen sixties to be Personnel Manager of the Greenock plant , in an area which is noted to it 's erm , insecurity , to see the effects on the living standards and conditions and morale of the general community of having a manufacturing plant which had stability of labour , as well as it 's er , objectives . |
| 27 | Baroness Thatcher too is an Oxford graduate , but when moves were made to confer an honorary degree on her in the nineteen eighties , she was turned down by the same people , amid stormy controversy . |
| 28 | It was probably England 's good fortune that Inzamam was preferred to him in the four previous Tests . |
| 29 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 30 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |