Example sentences of "and in [art] [num] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development of commercial airlines had an immense impact on travel and in the thirties they really began to take off . |
| 2 | In 1885 a Scottish Secretary was appointed , and in the 1920s he was elevated to Secretary of State . |
| 3 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 4 | There were many examples of species occupying territories separated by wide expanses of ocean , and in the 1850s it became fashionable to invoke prehistoric land-bridges to explain the migrations . |
| 5 | ‘ With the advent of TV in the Fifties you got lots of kids ' badges , while in the Sixties they grew larger and more colourful , and in the Seventies you had weird punk badges . ’ |
| 6 | Hall 's devotion to America became a byword and in the 1880s he was called ‘ an American preacher ’ although one listener added , ‘ though allusions to things American are frequent in the sermons … he is heartily English in thought and speech ’ . |
| 7 | The collections grew too large and in the 1880s he added the tall building next door . |
| 8 | In 1880 a further Education Act made schooling compulsory for children between five and ten , and in the 1890s it was established that most elementary education should be free . |
| 9 | Second only to the family , his chief love was for the North of Scotland and in the mid-fifties he realised a life-time ambition by becoming the owner of a 26,000-acre estate in Sutherland and , typical of the man , here he turned this unit into a sound agricultural business as well as a sporting estate . |
| 10 | In 1545 he was one of those appointed to devise new means of tackling the problem and in the 1550s he took a leading part in drawing up constitutions for the city 's new or refounded hospitals . |
| 11 | And in the 1930s he had been unforgiving towards these friends of his youth . |
| 12 | It was at one time in the library of Darcy Lever Hall , Bolton and in the 1930s it was rescued from a junk furniture shop in Kent . |
| 13 | British universities can seldom afford the American luxury of Writers on Campus , but the ivy-clad wall can tumble from inwards , and in the 1950s it did . |
| 14 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 15 | He was an assessment commissioner for Westminster and Middlesex in 1649 and in the 1650s he held a number of minor central and local offices and was a commissioner of oyer and terminer . |