Example sentences of "the [adj] [Wh adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |
| 2 | There are two common types of fitting : one where the waste pipe is simply pushed into the outlet of the trap ; the second where a plastic ‘ compression ’ joint — using a rubber or plastic washer to make the seal is incorporated into the outlet of the trap . |
| 3 | It was worked by various tenants until the 1730s when a number of owners culminated with the well-known family of Painswick clothiers , the Packers . |
| 4 | Perhaps the biggest event in recent times was in the 1950s when a film company made the church the setting for the film Lease of Life with Robert Donat . |
| 5 | The first of these , the statistical test controversy , arose in the 1950s when a group of American scholars vigorously attacked the use of such tests , pointing out the difficulty of surveys meeting the strict mathematical requirements demanded by the statistical theory , especially those to do with randomness . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ Whereas in the previous downturn in the 1980s when a lot of cyclical companies were haemorraging cash , this time the pressure on profits has not been at the expense of their financial position . ’ |