Example sentences of "during [art] [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 For during the 1980s the world price of coal had tumbled dramatically .
32 During the 1980s the college built up a deficit of over £1 million because for several years its grant was not increased .
33 During the 1980s the business PC , like many other IT products , was best bought from a reputable dealer .
34 During the 1890s the demand for guaranteed civil liberties and public participation in state decision-making gathered momentum .
35 During the 1930s the imposition of the household means test on those drawing public assistance benefits led to greater reluctance to take in elderly relatives .
36 During the 1930s the world had seen considerable political and military changes , already the dictators of Europe were making territorial gains , and the Japanese also had designs on mainland Asia , invading Manchuria and waging a savage war on China .
37 During the 1930s the interest in public opinion polling germinated a more academically oriented interest in attitudes , in part as an attempt to resolve some of the problems arising from electoral prediction .
38 When drift mines were first sunk in this valley during the 1850s the workforce walked in each day from the surrounding villages and hamlets , but from the 1860s onwards the coalmasters had to provide new accommodation ; Pease and Partners , for example , had built 151 houses at Waterhouses by 1874 .
39 That attitude shaped the thinking of the Leaders and Trustees in Edenderry and during the mid-1930s the need for a larger building was felt .
40 During the 1950s the population of the South-East went up by 1.13 million , with a net migration gain of 438,000 .
41 During the 1950s the view was gaining ground that a more systematic and determined effort should be made towards teachers ' professional development and this was to become the justification of the Schools Council 's existence .
42 During the 1950s the housing shortage led to a boom in unauthorised caravan sites .
43 However , during the 1950s the introduction of new drugs , popularly known as tranquillizers , brought about a ‘ therapeutic revolution ’ within the hospitals .
44 During the fair the appointment of Hans König as Chairman of the European Fine Arts Foundation ( the Fair 's organisers ) was announced .
45 During the 1870s a group at Cambridge under the leadership of Henry Sidgwick , an eminent philosopher whose Methods of Ethics ( 1874 ) is a standard work of utilitarianism , began systematic experiments .
46 During the eighties the proportion of employees in union membership was down to forty eight percent in nineteen ninety , from fifty eight percent in nineteen ni eighty four .
47 First during the seventies the position of women in society , an issue dormant since the 1930s , became again a matter of public debate .
48 At some point during the fifties the press coined a phrase , not entirely new but then fashionable , for any actor who emulated the lifestyle of Errol Flynn , if only in part .
49 But during the Fifties the impact of the Disarmers on American public opinion was ‘ very marginal ’ according to David Riesman , the Harvard sage .
50 During the 1880s the poll-tax was abolished and indirect taxes — especially the liquor monopoly — became the major source of government revenue .
51 During the 1860s the energy of the radicals was absorbed for the most part in rebellion against the values and conventions of the educated world from which they sprang .
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