Example sentences of "in [num] [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasional statistics sometimes throw light on the problem ; in 1875 Gladstone 's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees sold 100,000 copies and it is difficult not to see in this a level of religious interest which later declined . |
| 2 | This may explain why in 1035 Harold 's claim to be Cnut 's son was greeted by some with incredulity . |
| 3 | In 1931–2 Danzig 's trade with Poland dropped from 8,300,000 tons to 5,400,000 tons . |
| 4 | In 1166 Peter 's great-grandfather , Thurstin de Montfort II , had held ten fees from the earl of Warwick , making him the second greatest of his tenants . |
| 5 | In eight week 's time he would be Virginia Grafton 's husband . |
| 6 | In 1934–5 Danzig 's share of Polish trade dropped from 47 per cent to 37 per cent . |
| 7 | In 1943 Macpherson 's career moved westwards , first as head of the wartime British Colonies Supply Mission in Washington , DC , and then in the dual capacity of comptroller for development and welfare in the West Indies and joint British chairman of the Anglo-American Caribbean commission . |
| 8 | In 1755 Rousseau 's discovery of the noble savage had made some men think twice before dismissing the barbaric out of hand , and Milton 's ‘ arched walks of twilight groves ’ were thought to resemble the aspiring arches of the Gothic church . |
| 9 | In 1986 Britain 's power stations were estimated to have produced 166.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide , Germany 187.2 million tonnes . |
| 10 | On his return to France in 1935 Nizan 's conviction that the Soviet state represented the ultimate international safeguard against fascist barbarism and oppression was strengthened by the growing success of the Popular Front movements in France and Spain . |
| 11 | In 1935 Boulestin 's Evening Standard Book of Menus was published by Heinemann . |
| 12 | In 1448 Murad 's army routed Hunyadi once more , this time on the historic field of Kosovo Polje . |
| 13 | Turkey 's application for full membership of the European Communities ( EC ) remained deferred for consideration in 1993. Özal 's proposal for a customs union with the EC by 1995 received EC endorsement in a formal communication issued in Brussels on June 6 , 1990 . |
| 14 | In 1972 Tom 's temper had got worse and worse and I felt like packing it in , as we finished seventh at Muirfield , the year Tony Jacklin should have won and Lee Trevino did . |
| 15 | In 1993 Nissan 's factory at Washington , Tyne and Wear , will produce the same number of cars with a total workforce , including white-collar , managerial and support staff of 3,800 . |
| 16 | In 1985 Cox 's paper was timely and asked for shifts in American Irish and British labour politics in a wholly correct way . |
| 17 | In 1929 Nizan 's acquiescence to party discipline did not prevent him from exploring the possibility of working for the party at the edge of the class divide . |
| 18 | In 1874 Beecher 's career received a setback of sorts when a newspaper editor with whom he had worked sued him for alienating his wife 's affections . |
| 19 | In 1874 Pilcher 's father died and Sophia took her four surviving children ( one son had died in childhood ) to Celle , near Hanover in Germany , where she died in 1877 . |
| 20 | In 1991 Scotland 's manufacturing exports to France totalled £1.17 billion . |
| 21 | In 1991 Televisa 's owner , Emilio Azcárraga , bought out some minority shareholders and took the company public , floating 20% of the equity for $145m . |
| 22 | So we 're watching that programme , Is this Your Last Cigarette ? or whatever it were called last Sunday on the telly and I thought I 'm stupid cos in six month 's time I shall say I could have packed up six months ago . |
| 23 | In 1518 Throckmorton 's father , one of Henry VII 's courtiers , died on his way to the Holy Land , and George succeeded to a considerable estate , which he was to enlarge further . |
| 24 | Yet although the hardening of lines seems ominous in retrospect and the thin tie of Reinsurance could hardly have linked Russia and Germany for long , it could be argued that in 1888 Bismarck 's system was still successful . |
| 25 | Visiting such a meeting in 1932 Dicke 's attention was directed to a case report presented by Stheeman concerning relapses of diarrhoea after the consumption of bread and rusks ; according to the testimony of one patient . |
| 26 | In 1969 Miliband 's book The State in Capitalist Society , and the author 's subsequent debate with Poulantzas , set the tone for a renewed academic debate about the nature of the state . |
| 27 | He was joint editor of the English Historical Review , 1939–58 ; professor of history in the University of Edinburgh from 1945 till his resignation on health grounds in 1954 ; and in 1951–2 Ford 's lecturer in Oxford , delivering the lectures which became probably the most widely known of his books , King George III and the Politicians ( 1953 ) . |
| 28 | In 1822 Elizabeth 's son Robert was baptised at the Mile End Old Town Zion Chapel on Union Street , built by devotees of Lady Huntingdon 's Connexion ; the young boy , then 13 , may well have been staying with his uncle Samuel at the time , the latter having married three years previously . |
| 29 | London in three day 's time and Virginia . |
| 30 | So in three year 's time we 'll back to where we are today , |