Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] we " in BNC.

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1 In the lower sixth we try to do lots of experimentation … so they have a year of doing really interesting work , and then you have to pull them into line ; and you might say , ‘ You 've got to do composition , graphics , etc … and you 've got to work to these criteria . ’
2 In the mid eighties we decided that if we were going to be one of the super unions , we had to be amalgamation-friendly .
3 In the mid eighties we invested our members money in a National Education Centre , and now ten years later it 's become a Conference Centre and a hotel and we 're not fully booked , can be used for training the stewards , along with the occasional Regional Council meeting for the Lancashire Region .
4 However , even in the late 1970s we were convinced that ‘ many newspapers were increasingly using the soft pornography of rape reports , and reports of other sex crimes , as a mechanism to sell newspapers .
5 What litigation might have been promoted by the Labour government 's aborted proposals in the late 1960s we shall never know .
6 In the late 1980s we were looking for somewhere to produce a whole stream of new products , ’ said managing director of Glaxo Developments Alan Catterall .
7 In the late 1980s we can review the situation in my two localities in terms of being ‘ after the planners ’ , because the Hailsham programme consisted of planned accommodation with social change in the name of modernization and social progress .
8 One answer is that in the late 1980s we have been witnessing structural changes , whereas in more normal times we see only adjustments and changes within a set structure .
9 In the late 1980s we now see town planning and architecture — shapers of the housing environment — charged with professional disrepute : once the great hope of being effective providers of an environment of social purpose , the two professions have been derided for giving the public the wrong thing , and in the wrong manner .
10 Saviour Stuart said : ‘ We deserved a draw in the end , but in the first half we struggled and were n't at the races .
11 In the first half we attacked the Kop end and hopes were high that Crewe would conceed a bagful of goals in the first half when Deane actually managed to score in the 17th minute .
12 He explained why he sent on Platt : ‘ In the first half we had a great deal of possession but we needed to move the Brazilians about , we needed to hurt them a bit more .
13 In the first half we had three very good chances .
14 Until the advent of satellites in the nineteen seventies we knew very little about the sea ice cover around Antarctica other than the northern fringes .
15 I suppose in the nineteen fifties we all thought that was the answer to energy production , but there seem to have been a lot of problems over these since then .
16 The tapes and conversation details will all become completely anonymous no one will know who 's used the words or whose voice are on the tapes together they will provide a permanent record of how the English language is spoken in the nineteen nineties we 'll go down in posterity , eh ?
17 And indeed erm in the eighteen thirties we see the formation in the west of the so called quadruple alliance not to be confused with the great quadruple alliance of eighteen er thirteen .
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