Example sentences of "[adv] in the [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly in the thirties she announced that she was both too thin and too old to dance any more . |
| 2 | Well you 've put a fucking enough in the other one so what was wrong with that ? |
| 3 | If the failed attempt to oust him from Wadham in 1654 was the work of stricter puritans who suspected him of reducing Christianity to morality , so in the 1660s his ‘ club for comprehension ’ evoked the censure of high churchmen . |
| 4 | Nor should we suppose that T. S. Eliot was just firing off his big guns against R. A. Butler 's wartime Education Act of 1944 , for already in the 1930s there had been widespread criticism of ‘ standardisation ’ and ‘ levelling down ’ . |
| 5 | These little thumb print things along the , along the sides are called the marks and the down to the sea those marks disappear and you get this silvery appearance , so it 's very plain if you 've got these that the salmon has been up there just in the upper which is exactly we had , hope we had happened |
| 6 | Early in the 1890s she went to work under Mrs Hugh Price Hughes at the West London Mission . |
| 7 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 8 | Early in the 1450s he married Margaret , daughter of Sir Richard de Vernon of Haddon [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 10 | Later in the 1960s it would be great to be a student , but not then , not for Robins . |
| 11 | Self-expression , of course , is a most important element in child development , but often in the 1960s it was espoused with pseudo-religious fervour . |
| 12 | Now in the old we had er quite a reasonable scheme on this actual erm but you see , about ten years ago I think it was , there was another estate built on to , it 's called and although at that time we made the strongest possible representation for improvements and traffic calming in which is the only road that goes in and nothing was done . |
| 13 | Since the death rate after upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage from all causes rises sharply in the elderly one might be forgiven for assuming that this section of the population has such an appalling outlook that variceal haemorrhage should be most humanely ‘ treated with limited transfusion and sedation . ’ |
| 14 | Only they will probably both know that these must not include anything too worrying or controversial , which could create the type of tension and anxiety that can so easily build up in the elderly , particularly in the many who suffer from circulatory troubles , or who have a naturally anxious personality which has become even more vulnerable with age . |
| 15 | Well than the other the other thing which I think particularly in the last one that we did which was finished back in March , we kept on changing the specification , because it started off such a such and specification and it was going to the Hanover Fair in Germany |
| 16 | Mike Fesemeyer , a former colleague who now analyses bank shares for Nomura , says : ‘ Even in the 1970s he was perceived as a future chief executive or at least one of the bank 's fast track graduates . |
| 17 | It is notable , however , that although titled nobles were very prominent in the highest ranks in the college it still had to make extensive use of commoners , since even in the 1750s it was impossible to find enough dvoryane ( members of the privileged landowning class ) with an adequate knowledge of foreign languages . |
| 18 | But in the 1920s £200 was a high price for a Matisse and even in the Thirties his work rarely made over £1000 . |
| 19 | But the many miles of treeless river inhibits recolonization by otters , and even in the 1980s there have been cases of water authority workmen felling known otter holts . |
| 20 | Even in the seventies there was awareness of a ‘ north — south ’ divide . |
| 21 | Even in the fifties my mother was still so relieved they were not poor anymore that she found spending money reassuring . |
| 22 | But even in the 1950s there was one apparent similarity between weak and electromagnetic interactions . |
| 23 | The Barley Mow brewery was among the very last to still brew draught London porter , which it made until the late 1930s , and even in the 1950s it was famous for another dark beer , its Main Line mild . |
| 24 | Dexter noticed that each report ended with Nicola addressing the camera , even in the third one , where it was unnecessary and intrusive . |
| 25 | Here in the Med we see boats from many nations and , with the exception of a very small number of elderly Britons and Dutch , most are comparatively recent recruits to the joys of yachting . |
| 26 | Well in the third one she does mention er , this explanation was served directly by mistake should been made . |
| 27 | Then in the Southern my next prayer was to be home for the boy 's Christmas holidays from school and I got home : it was even more special . |
| 28 | Then in the mid-seventies you discovered Hildegard Behrens . |
| 29 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 30 | Then in the third one I had Miss Brown . |