Example sentences of "back in the 1930s " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one is conscious as Pierre Gemayel speaks — unfairly perhaps but the parallel is there — of another , infinitely more vulnerable minority which another government blamed , back in the 1930s , for its own social ills . |
| 2 | The possibility of a bypass was first mooted back in the 1930s , but the notion was recently resurrected as a solution to the picturesque village 's traffic problems . |
| 3 | Back in the 1930s two doctors by the names of Morin and Bachrach discovered to their surprise that the note of E of the fourth octave had the effect of making young cats defecate and adult ones become sexually excited . |
| 4 | The Peke-faced cat was known back in the 1930s , but the other three were all discovered in the 1960s and were quickly established by enthusiastic local breeders , delighted to be founding new lines of pedigree cats . |
| 5 | This was the railway which the churlish Beachcomber , back in the 1930s , prayed might never bc finished , because its only use would be ‘ in order that a herd of bored fools may get more quickly from one cosmopolitan cesspit to the other ’ . |
| 6 | I know back in the 1930s Bradford City had a full back called McLuggage , but surely not even Reg believes that somewhere out there is a left back called Halfpound O'Liver . |
| 7 | When I was told this , I recalled hearing it said , back in the 1930s , that these visits had been observed by a young writer or two who , out of rather callous curiosity , would follow Eliot at a discreet distance , and observe him to turn round , as he approached the door , in order to see whether anybody had been spying on him . |