Example sentences of "took off in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to indicate that after a fairly steady climb and a certain standstill in the late 1880s , the numbers really took off in the late 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century . |
| 2 | Making up yardage charts started in America in the late 1950s , took off in the 1960s and came to Britain in the 1970s . |
| 3 | Before the property boom took off in the 1970s there were still cheap flats around in London . |
| 4 | In Europe the craze for motoring took off in the twenties and thirties , helped in 1931 by the launching of the first cross-Channel ferry specifically designed to carry cars and their passengers . |
| 5 | Although FDI had been substantial from the beginning of the twentieth century , it really took off in the 1950s , as a result of the flow of funds from the United States into Europe aher the Second World War . |
| 6 | Professor Breen has suggested that the American consumer market took off in the 1740s . |