Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the heady 19605 it was possible to suggest that : |
| 2 | In the early 80's it was almost new romantic . |
| 3 | By 1990 this ratio had fallen to 39.7% , but in the early 1990s it has risen again , to some 43% in 1992/93 . |
| 4 | When I was a very small boy , the shop next to Mr. White was a fishmongers but in the early twenties it was acquired by Mr. & Mrs. Prewett who opened a fish and chip establishment . |
| 5 | By the end of the 1960s , the firm had established a reputation in the electronics and motor industries , and in the early 1970s it expanded into oil , petroleum and chemicals , and established a foothold in the merchant banking sector . |
| 6 | In the early 1970s it became the practice to tell the press what had happened and whether any votes were taken . |
| 7 | But in the early 1970s it was in danger of total destruction . |
| 8 | The building dates back to the early 1800s and although it was partly rebuilt in the early 1900s it still resembles the original design . |
| 9 | In the early 1960s it became clear that compulsory continuing education was actually becoming a hindrance to recruitment . |
| 10 | In the early 1770s it was Supporters of the Society of the Bill of Rights who attempted pledging with only limited success . |
| 11 | In the early 1840's it was computed that some 240 or so adult male workers found employment at the mines . |
| 12 | In the early 1950s it was illegal for a foreigner to work in France without a permit . |
| 13 | But in the early eighties it was very different , and , as the same observer comments , Argentina then ‘ was a very hermetic society . |
| 14 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 15 | They also aim to resettle promising farmers , whereas in the early 1980s it was the poorest , not the most successful , who were given newly purchased land . |
| 16 | Since then , however , there has been some decrease in military spending , in the early 1980s it was estimated at 4.5 per cent of global GNP , lower than public expenditure on education though still higher than that on health services ( Sivard , 1982 ) , and in the 1990s , with the ending of the cold war , it may be expected to decline more rapidly . |
| 17 | Sometimes self-discovered methods were used : for example , after an epidemic of lead poisoning in Sheffield in the early 1890s it was noted that those who were poisoned had aborted . |
| 18 | In the nineteenth century the problem was ill-health , sanitation , poor housing , overcrowding and social disorder , ; between the wars it was diet , hygiene and the slums ; in the mid 1960s it had become deprivation ; a current thread throughout was an unfit dwelling stock and environmental disadvantage . |
| 19 | In the mid 1980s it was also discovered that the naturally leached soil of most of upland Britain is vulnerable to ‘ sulphate saturation ’ . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , in the late 1970s it was easy to see the divisions of Zuwaya into sections and lineages reflected in the street map of Ajdabiya , much as the oases of Kufra or Tazarbu were subdivided into tribal territories . |
| 21 | The Land Drainage Act of 1918 had made an attempt to simplify the administration of land drainage , but in the late 1920s it was clear that confusion still prevailed . |
| 22 | Emerging in the late sixties it took several forms : informal consciousness-raising groups were set up ; women 's campaigns were run in support of abortion , battered women , women in employment , and of oppressed women in different parts of the world ; and women found their own voice in establishing their own magazines and publishing houses . |
| 23 | In the late sixties it furnished a steadily rising floor . |
| 24 | In the late 1960s it was found that the drug amphetamine could induce some of the symptoms of schizophrenia in otherwise normal subjects . |
| 25 | But the agency does have the job of approving materials and devices ( as well as drugs ) intended for the treatment of disease , and way back in the late 1960s it rightly concluded that none of the artificial hearts available was fit for the task for which it had been designed . |
| 26 | In the late 1960s it was considered impossible to generate computer imagery at a high enough resolution to project onto a Cinerama screen — the electronic equivalent of ‘ grain' would have been unacceptably coarse and spotty . |
| 27 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 28 | With the development of appropriate piston corers in the late 1940s it was possible to collect columns of sediment 10–30 m in length which contained material that could be dated by radiometric and other means and could also provide environmental information , for example by analysing the frequency of sensitive foraminifera . |
| 29 | Starting with Shepard 's work in the late 1930s it has become increasingly normal to attribute the return flow to local rip currents . |
| 30 | While in the late 1980s it was comparatively easy to secure a highly geared mortgage , these are far less easily available today . |