Example sentences of "in the [adj] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only difference is that in the 1950s and the 1980s the Conservatives had more than 10 years to cure the ills of the economy while in the 1970s they had but four . |
| 2 | In the 1970s they had been required to obtain land for future projects , and they could hardly have been expected ? sell at such severely-depressed prices . |
| 3 | Moreover as inflation began to rise in the 1970s it made no sense to wait before buying ; the price would inevitably be higher if you did so . |
| 4 | Close attention to constituent needs has always been an indispensable condition for success in elections to the US congress , but in the 1970s it assumed a new significance . |
| 5 | When the concept of a wholly implantable automatic defibrillator was the first suggested by Mirowski in the 1970s it met with a sceptical and even hostile response from some sections of the cardiological community . |
| 6 | In the 1970s it turned over more than £50 million , but it sank last year after an unsuccessful relaunch . |
| 7 | S. cordifolia had traditionally been confined to the Western Himalayas , but in the 1970s it spread to the Sivalik Hill region . |
| 8 | In the 1970s he bet his father he could open a vineyard in Utah , a state where drink and the devil are considered kissin' cousins . |
| 9 | This later led to more troubles than they could have expected , but in the 1630s they seemed to be effectively independent . |
| 10 | Actually it started to rain and when we had just got in the then we had to get out again . |
| 11 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 12 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 13 | In the 1960s we started an art theft/loss notification system by which we sent to dealers , auction houses , museums , and police authorities notices of missing works of art . |
| 14 | In the 1960s they won the Junior Ice Dance Championships at Streatham . |
| 15 | In the 1960s he served Warrington AC as coach , secretary and chairman . |
| 16 | In the 1960s he made Tiger Haven into a wildlife sanctuary that perfectly complemented the 83 square miles ( 215 sq km ) of Dudwa National Park , run by the Indian Forest Department , just across the river . |
| 17 | In the 1960s he worked for several years in industry , including a period as Chief Architect at Camus , before being appointed Head of the Architectural Division at the National Building Agency . |
| 18 | In the 1960s he gave up practice to pursue an academic career as an architectural historian . |
| 19 | In the 1960s it averaged almost 5% per annum , in the 1970s this fell to just under 3% . |
| 20 | In the 1960s it became apparent that a revision of the features was needed , and the new set was introduced in Chomsky and Halle ( 1968 ) , pp.293–329 , rather pretentiously called ‘ The Universal Set of Phonetic Features ’ . |
| 21 | Originally in the nail trade , in the 1620s he turned to iron manufacture , and about 1625 established an iron-slitting mill on the River Stour at Hyde , near Kinver , Staffordshire , costing £500 . |
| 22 | In the long-term he hoped that Soviet control over them would break down , allowing the re-creation of a common identity in Europe ‘ from the Atlantic to the Urals ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ With the advent of TV in the Fifties you got lots of kids ' badges , while in the Sixties they grew larger and more colourful , and in the Seventies you had weird punk badges . ’ |
| 24 | But in the Sixties we did n't feel that way . |
| 25 | In the sixties he saw the clergy and the place of religion in Iranian society . |
| 26 | Germi had begun his career directing serious , realistic features on postwar Italy , but in the sixties he changed to broad , satirical sex comedies , the best and most popular being Divorce Italian Style , which received three Oscar nominations . |
| 27 | In the latter we learnt about gammy gear , in-fights , unprofessional ‘ promoters ’ and an obscure though mystical ceremony between band and tribal chiefs up in the hillside . |
| 28 | In the latter they had to cope with de-skilling innovations in technology and organisation as well as with the effects of rapid population growth on the labour market . |
| 29 | In the latter she wasted little space on such theoretical concerns as the position of monarchy in modern society , concentrating instead on the more trivial aspects of palace life . |
| 30 | In the former he had two 1sts , two 2nds , a 4th and a 7th to discard , a clear indication of his mastery in this regatta . |