Example sentences of "the [num] were [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1920s were in the interregnum between the discovery of radioactivity — the spontaneous transmutation of one element into another — and its detailed understanding . |
| 2 | The socks of the twenties were of the turnover top variety — the tops usually being brightly striped . |
| 3 | Each patient responded and after treatment five of the 13 were within the normal range ( N<1% , 0.51 ( 0.16 ) % ( mean ( SD ) ) . |
| 4 | The bar was a regular haunt for men going in to begin their night shift , and the two were on the same shunting team . |
| 5 | Black immigrants to Britain in the 1960s were in the lowest housing class . |
| 6 | The four were from the Greenpeace ship , Rainbow Warrior II ( whose predecessor had been sank by the French secret service while on a similar mission in 1985 ) . |
| 7 | The most productive coalfields in Great Britain in the 1980s were on the eastern flanks of the Pennines . |
| 8 | However , the only sizeable national job losses in services in the 1980s were in the public sector , chiefly in the railways and ports , industries associated functionally and locationally with the decline of heavy industry itself . |
| 9 | To measure the intensity of his hatred , it is only necessary to add that he wrote these words when it was public knowledge that women and children by the thousands were among the population of those camps . |