Example sentences of "in the [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1970s such individuals were called educationally and emotionally deprived or culturally disadvantaged , and a whole quasi-medical terminology of concern and cure became part of the intervention procedure of community workers , social workers and educationalists . |
| 2 | In the 1970s most people who joined executive search firms came from a career in industry . |
| 3 | In the 1970s these developments led to a split within the professional-managerial class . |
| 4 | Subsequently , in the 1970s this approach was also addressed by M.A. Carson in The Mechanics of Erosion ( Carson , 1971 ) in a book which provided a unified introduction to the mechanics of erosional processes and which was aimed at undergraduates in earth science . |
| 5 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 6 | In the end , in the final few days , the Labour campaign atrophied . |
| 7 | The Walks were forbidden to the villagers and in the final few weeks of pregnancy , Tamar spent much of her time strolling there , in such complete seclusion that she felt cut off from civilisation . |
| 8 | In the 1800s most fishermen were after whales , until their coastal net fishery wiped out local populations . |
| 9 | Ozone holes have been opening in the Antarctic each September for the past 15 years . |
| 10 | AFTER READING Jon Wilde 's espousal of marital bliss ( ‘ Modern Times ’ ) in your June issue , I was surprised to discover that he is not above indulging in a masturbatory fantasy over our beloved future queen in the self same issue ! |
| 11 | Khrushchev 's boast in the 1960s that socialism would bury capitalism sounds laughable now , as Poland and Hungary scramble ahead of the Soviet Union in economic reforms . |
| 12 | Yet in the 1960S some members of the credit industry had feared it would grind to a halt unless they could threaten promise-breakers with prison . |
| 13 | In the 1960s some firms started investing abroad in forms that linked together production , trade and finance . |
| 14 | In the 1960s this preoccupation gave way to an urgent need to consider domestic problems such as racial disharmony and poverty . |
| 15 | In the 1960's such applications were dominated by financial control , transaction and personnel records . |
| 16 | It was left to his brother Laurence to include it in the posthumous More Poems ( 1936 ) . |
| 17 | Malton Museum is housed in the imposing former Town Hall in the centre of the town 's Market Place . |
| 18 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 19 | His Windies team come face-to-face with Javed Miandad 's side in a Test series in the Caribbean this winter , and Richardson added : ‘ They will have to be very careful about what they do with the ball . |
| 20 | The Morrissey problem became apparent in The International that night . |
| 21 | Another model of Sgr A takes into account the latest observational evidence : the radio emission from Sgr A results from a supermassive black hole accreting from the winds of HeI emission-line stars in the central few arcseconds . |
| 22 | Our measurements give values of 1.83x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R54 ) and 2.78x10 -3 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( rhesus R151 ) in the central few degrees of retina , and 5.57x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R54 ) and 4.69x10 -4 mm 2 per ganglion cell ( R151 ) in the remaining region ( Table 1 ) . |
| 23 | But in the 1990s many citizens , particularly among the English ( who tend to be less conscious of their ‘ Englishness ’ than the Scots and Welsh are of their national identities ) , do not even feel British : it has been commented that the British lost their sense of identity along with their empire and have not yet found another identity . |
| 24 | Plus ça change : in the 1990s these words ( apart from their dated gender references ) remain as relevant and as enlightening as in the 1970s and at the beginning of the century : the problem of poverty is the condition of the normal man [ and woman ] in normal circumstances , neither better nor worse off than his [ or her ] neighbours , not of those whose failings qualify them to be the text for the moralist , and who are no more common in the manual working-classes than in other sections of the society . |
| 25 | In the one such study reported , 91 women who had had a hysterectomy were more likely than age matched controls to report infrequent defecation and to have consulted a doctor for constipation . |
| 26 | In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most . |
| 27 | To progress beyond such a static application of systems it is necessary to focus upon the dynamics of the system and in the preceding few pages a number of instances have been cited where physical geographers have already advocated placing emphasis upon the function of the system . |
| 28 | On 4 April two officers reported the River Spey to be ‘ low and fordable in … many places ’ and by 12 April , after being joined by the forces from Strathbogie , Cumberland 's army reached the river , where the water level had dropped significantly in the preceding few days . |
| 29 | But over the past five or six years the visits had increased and lengthened until , in the preceding few months , they had settled permanently upon his presence . |
| 30 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |