Example sentences of "in the [num] [pers pn] have " 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 | It initially developed to provide trade financing for the entrepot centre , but since the multinationals started to arrive in the 1970s it has developed into a sophisticated financial centre . |
4 | President Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria said that Africa had failed to meet its challenges : " Ever since the majority of our countries became independent in the 1960s we have conducted our lives as if the world owes us a living . " |
5 | But of course since that boom in the sixties we 've had the seventies ' economic depression , uncertainty about the future , the problem of the bomb , changed family attitudes , better contraception erm a great drop , and in fact a population a birth fall rather , of something like a third between nineteen sixty four and nineteen sixty seven . |
6 | In the two I 've just mentioned you will find a character who lives many years without the benefit of some vital knowledge , something they really needed to know . |
7 | In the 1920s it had been relatively easy for the students to obtain good jobs : but not now . |
8 | Erm it 's for it 's it 's in order that , that in the nineties we have a historical record , I think I 'm I think I 'm saying this right , there is a historical record of the kind of words that are being introduced into the into our language into our vocabulary like for example i.e. |
9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
10 | However successful these policies may have been in the fifties we have , I believe , convincing evidence that they have failed since the world-wide inflation which started with the mismanagement of the finances raised to pay for the Vietnam War . |
11 | In the 1950s he had condemned the French Fourth Republic as a weak regime , vacillating in its policies , too often a victim rather than a shaper of international events . |
12 | In the 1950s he had failed to advance far in the party nationally , and had instead made his name as internal affairs minister in the Land of Hamburg after 1961 . |
13 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
14 | You know in the forties they had just soil and stones you know ? |
15 | In the 1770s she had envisaged the abolition of serfdom in Bohemia , Joseph merely its amelioration : his attitude probably contributed to the outbreak in the province of the peasant revolt of 1775 . |
16 | Weiner says that in the Eighties we 've gone past the ‘ grazing ’ stage , in which we picked at this and that all day long , to ‘ refuelling ’ : the pit-stop in which we shovel food in our mouths as fast as we can . |
17 | In the Eighties we have doubled it . ’ |
18 | Fortunately , in the eighties we have begun to recognise that modern communication skills go far beyond the concept of advertising . |
19 | While in the United States in the 1890s he had been heavily influenced by the Populist and Democratic Parties ' assault on the Gold Standard . |
20 | The measures of the 1870s had temporarily reduced it in relation to population size , but in the 1890s it had begun to rise and growth was dramatic after 1901 . |
21 | In the 1980s we have seen greater emphasis than heretofore on the voice of the consumer . |
22 | In the 1980s it has been acknowledged that the importance of formal ( tripartite ) arrangements at ‘ peak ’ levels has been reduced — indeed it is now often suggested that Britain was always less ‘ corporatist ’ in these terms than countries such as the Federal Republic of Germany , Austria and Sweden . |
23 | Born in the 1880s he had been educated in Switzerland long before Reza Shah 's establishment of a dynasty in his own name , and had been exiled to the north-east of Iran . |
24 | Since the club 's formation in the 1930s we have reached the first round on no less than 42 occasions . |
25 | And in the 1930s he had been unforgiving towards these friends of his youth . |
26 | In the 980s he had followers who took church lands , some of which he returned a decade later , blaming previous actions on bad influence during his youth . |