Example sentences of "in [art] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1970s a prisoner from one of the labour camps had assembled a group of volunteers , including experts on dowsing , to investigate what he claimed to have located — Ivan the Terrible 's library . |
| 2 | In an attempt to try to contain the pressure for such changes donors adopted in the 1970s a strategy of establishing semi-autonomous project units , which were nominally attached to national ministries , but in fact were more or less independent of them . |
| 3 | In the 1970s a study of dolphin and porpoise tissues , from several locations throughout the Pacific , demonstrated that coastal dolphins and porpoises are the most susceptible to accumulating toxic waste , especially those whose habitat is close to industrial discharges or runoff of agricultural chemicals . |
| 4 | In the 1960s a man with an American accent arrived at a coastal resort in South Wales and announced that he represented an American corporation which wished to purchase a leisure and amusement arcade in the town . |
| 5 | IN THE 1960s a mystique surrounded hallucinogenic drugs like LSD because they seemed to enable users to alter their perceptions of reality , and explore their ‘ inner minds ’ . |
| 6 | In many schools in the 1960s a revulsion against decontextualised exercises brought about a complete abandonment of the teaching of grammar . |
| 7 | Then there was what might be-called " fire-insurance Jacobitism " : in the 1690s a number of leading politicians — amongst them Tories such as Marlborough and Godolphin and Whigs such as Shrewsbury and Edward Russell — thought it wise to maintain some contact with the exiled Stuarts so that their own political security would be guaranteed should there be another Stuart restoration . |
| 8 | At Rome in the 250s a split occurred between the rigorists led by Novatian who believed that for apostates there could be no restoration in this life , and those who saw no restriction in the Lord 's committal of the power of the keys to bind and loose . |
| 9 | In the 1920s a team of British geologists discovered hot springs while surveying northern India and the seismic faults around the Himalayas . |
| 10 | The citizens charter was advertised as ’ a revolution in services one of the central themes of public life in the nineties a transformation of our services ’ . |
| 11 | In the seventies a report from Lord Home recommended replacing the House of Lords with a new body , two thirds of whose members would be elected . |
| 12 | In the 1950s a control system based on punched tape was developed . |
| 13 | In the 1830s a corn market was held regularly by three merchants who had a room each at the Hildyard Arms , still there in the market place . |
| 14 | In the 1720s a government survey counted almost a quarter of a million fugitives , and the opening out of new lands to the south and east continued to attract desperate peasants throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | In the 1770s a wing was added at the back , and once again the house rose up the social scale . |
| 16 | This was the image of football in the eighties a game dogged by fans fighting on the terraces and running onto the pitch . |
| 17 | There was already a substantial body of information on plant physiology , but in the 1890s a number of botanists realized that the discipline could be extended to include how the plant coped with different environmental factors . |
| 18 | In the 1890s a start was made when A. Harker of Cambridge University was employed to map the volcanic rocks of south Skye and H. B. Woodward , a senior officer of the English Survey , was sent to map the Jurassic rocks of Skye and Raasay . |
| 19 | In the 1980s a change in political attitudes affected a long-standing commitment to public-sector plan making , and different policy initiatives have sought to reduce local authority provision of housing and play down other forms of local planning . |
| 20 | Even in the 1980s a troupe could be performing a highly individual routine in the most modern style but they only had to link arms , synchronize a few kicks and the audience would break into spontaneous applause . |
| 21 | In the 1980s a lot of noise was made about a supposed crisis in British art . |
| 22 | In the 1980s a process was begun which greatly accelerated the progress towards creating a Common Market . |
| 23 | In the 1850s a factory of 300 in Britain could still be considered very large , and as late as 1871 the average British cotton factory employed 180 people , the average works manufacturing machinery a mere eighty-five . |
| 24 | In the 1850s a wing was added to the house ( which has since been neatly demolished ) , with twenty-two bedrooms . |
| 25 | In the 1860s a line was built along the path of the old moat and then out to the new dock at Neufahrwasser ( Nowy Port ) , and ten years later a second branch line went on up the coast to Koszalin . |
| 26 | In 1927 the blue shirt was adopted as the official uniform and in the 1930s a beret and dark trousers or skirt were added . |
| 27 | Essentially , there had grown up in the 1930s a system of subsidies which enabled milk to be bought cheaply by local education authorities for distribution ( free or at minimal cost ) to children . |
| 28 | In the 1870s a drive for increased milk production led to an increase in Friesian imports and this typical dairy type settled in the southern lowlands of Sweden . |