Example sentences of "the [num] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Air refuelling has come a long way from the first attempts in the thirties where the co-pilot literally popped out and grabbed the hose . |
| 2 | After all , back in the Thirties even the holiday posters would tell of ‘ Healthful Hartlepool — the most bracing air in the kingdom ’ . |
| 3 | This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California . |
| 4 | Neither made a significant provision before 1820 , and their rivalry still persisted in the 1830s when the government began at last to assist them with grants . |
| 5 | Taken together with the replacement of the solid , load-bearing external walls by rows of brick piers flanking narrower infill panels , this development allowed the area of window relative to wall to increase to a maximum in the 1900s when the façades of mills became more glass than brick . |
| 6 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 7 | The post , erected in the 1840s when the area was drained , shows the land has sunk some 13ft-14ft — an ominous decline in view of forecasts that global warming may cause the nearby sea to rise . |
| 8 | In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third . |
| 9 | A little further on , the small compact settlement of Lea Yeat ( Gate ) is reached , its tranquillity disturbed only in the 1870s when the railway was being constructed across the hillside above . |
| 10 | But its real take-off period was the 1870S when the introduction of a new cooling apparatus and the addition of chemical preservatives to the milk enabled it to be transported very long distances while remaining fresh . |
| 11 | It is , however , correct that these percentages were at their highest in the 1970s when the number of strikers was also at its highest . |
| 12 | It all started in the 1970s when the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory designed a network called the Cambridge Ring . |
| 13 | During the détente years of the 1970s when the USSR appeared as a revisionist power in the Third World its interest in neutralisation slackened . |
| 14 | There 's a very old study by Walker and Guest nineteen fifty-two and I think you might find the findings may reflect the fifties quite a lot , found that seventy percent of assembly line workers erm initiated upwards communication . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The appointment of Fyfe to Warrington in 1921 was , however , the exception rather than the rule in the 1920s when the majority of missioners appointed or holding the posts were clergymen or hearing persons . |
| 17 | Agriculture , in the 1920s still the occupation of 27% of Americans , suffered a depression throughout the decade . |
| 18 | By the 1660s all the islands were committed to sugar and the white planters were taking drastic steps to prevent their white employees from leaving the islands and tilting the population balance still further towards the black slaves , but this of course made white employees all the more determined to avoid going to the West Indies . |
| 19 | By the 1880s half the wheat harvest was being exported . |
| 20 | This process began in the 1770s when the Leeds and Liverpool Canal , eventually to be the most important link , commenced its 127-mile journey via Wigan and Burnley and on through Skipton to Shipley , linking there in 1774 to the Bradford Canal . |
| 21 | The Incident happened in the 1930s when a Hartlepool couple were jailed for attacking a shop owner who 'd remonstrated with them for drinking out of the vinegar bottle . |
| 22 | However , managed floating also was adopted in the 1930s when the gold standard was abandoned in the severe economic conditions of the time . |
| 23 | Commercial use finally ceased in the 1930s when the machinery was removed and the domestic conversion carried out . |
| 24 | In Teesside seats outside of the two where the Conservatives had famous victories , only Dr. Marjorie Mowlam won for Labour with a anti-Tory swing anything like that necessary to put the national outcome into hung parliament country . |
| 25 | As an example , personal , social and moral education was from the 1960s onwards a field where schools shared their experiences , their approaches and their materials . |
| 26 | As Hood notes , however , they came into ‘ high fashion in the 1940s and again in the 1960s when the Fulton Committee endorsed the idea of government growth outside Whitehall by ‘ hiving-off ’ units from civil service departments to non-departmental bodies ' ( 1981 , p. 100 ) . |
| 27 | Since the 1960s both the US and Britain had supplied aircraft and related training programmes . |
| 28 | When drift mines were first sunk in this valley during the 1850s the workforce walked in each day from the surrounding villages and hamlets , but from the 1860s onwards the coalmasters had to provide new accommodation ; Pease and Partners , for example , had built 151 houses at Waterhouses by 1874 . |
| 29 | From the 1860s onwards the Commons , Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society campaigned to save Britain 's rural heritage so that city-dwellers could be revitalized through contact with Nature ( a campaign that only became realistic in the era of rapid transportation by rail ) . |
| 30 | Yet despite that , even in the 1950s neither the Conservatives nor Labour ever obtained an absolute majority of the votes , and today it is even clearer that there is no one majority party in British politics . |