Example sentences of "up [prep] the 1950s " in BNC.
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| 1 | An informant from Aberdeen , where the last women were still working up until the 1950s , told me that these elderly women sometimes had little to do , were regarded rather as passengers and had to put up with rather disparaging remarks , but were kept on until retirement age by the firm , which felt it had obligations towards them . |
| 2 | Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate enough to enjoy the Eagle comic every week . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 4 | This market grew up in the 1950s when the local authorities began to raise money for capital projects by issuing bills and bonds , and by raising loans . |
| 5 | When Glass ( 1954 ) studied trends up to the 1950s , he found that although many men experienced mobility , most of this was short-range and across the middle levels of the hierarchy in a ‘ buffer zone ’ . |
| 6 | A recurrent criticism of historical approaches in physical geography up to the 1950s was that they had insufficient knowledge of environmental processes to fall back upon which could enhance the understanding of landscape . |