Example sentences of "in the [num] [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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In the 1960s they won the Junior Ice Dance Championships at Streatham . |
| 13 | In the 1960s he served Warrington AC as coach , secretary and chairman . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the 1960s he gave up practice to pursue an academic career as an architectural historian . |
| 17 | In the 1960s it averaged almost 5% per annum , in the 1970s this fell to just under 3% . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | But in the Sixties we did n't feel that way . |
| 22 | In the sixties he saw the clergy and the place of religion in Iranian society . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In the 190s it seemed intolerable to the then bishop of Rome , Victor , that the churches in Asia Minor celebrated Easter on a different date , and to the distress of many he threatened excommunication on those who did not adopt the Roman date . |
| 25 | In the mid-twenties it closed altogether but reopened towards the end of the decade . |
| 26 | In the mid-1640s he became active in the Leveller movement . |
| 27 | Regular work for New Society and the Times launched him as a freelance editorial illustrator , and he has an impressive list of clients — in the '80s he drew all the covers for Penguin 's new editions of Anthony Burgess ' work , and his work has appeared in the Independent on Sunday , Observer , Radio Times , New Scientist , American Esquire and — among other things — in numerous advertisements and promotions for whisky in the UK , Ireland and the US . |
| 28 | Whereas in the 1780s she produced twice as much as her closest competitor , Great Britain , by the end of the Crimean War she had been overtaken by Belgium , France was exceeding her output threefold , and Britain no less than fourteenfold . |
| 29 | In the 1220s he began the series of verse lives of English saints which constitute the greater part of his work : Saints Birinus , Guthlac , Hugh of Lincoln , Oswald , Edmund [ qq.v . ] , |
| 30 | In the 1931 it raised its parliamentary representation from 261 , achieved in 1929 , to 472 in 1931 and 387 seats in 1935 . |