Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [num ord] decades [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The coalmining industry has been a major symbol of the differences between the two main political parties of post-war Great Britain : the Labour party , with its firm commitment — especially in the first decades of the period — to public ownership of the ‘ commanding heights of the economy ’ , and the Conservative party and its much greater ( and increasing from the mid-1970s on ) commitment to free market operations with minimal state interference , let alone ownership . |
| 2 | Only in the last decades of the century was morphology replaced by paleontology as the chief focus of attention in the reconstruction of what the German morphologist Ernst Haeckel called ‘ phylogeny ’ ( evolutionary history ) . |
| 3 | The construction of recognisable , and still current , definitions of masculinity proceeded rapidly in the last decades of the nineteenth century , supplementing the earlier discussions . |
| 4 | Even in the European North many peasants used old flintlocks right up to the first decades of the twentieth century , and in Siberia the use of bows and spears by Russians was not unknown at least as late as the 1830s . |
| 5 | But the volume of ‘ railway milk ’ traffic grew only slowly in the first decades of railway transport . |