Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed in the 1970s and 1980s because it offered no solutions to the new problems of chronic inflation and low growth . |
| 2 | He thought the transition period had always been too long , because authority deserts a dying king , and neither China nor the Hong Kong people were going to take much notice of us by the time it got to the Nineties . |
| 3 | " The outbreak of the Spanish Civil War must be understood in the context of traditional society and the economic stresses it suffered in the 1920 's and 1930's . |
| 4 | The fall , when it came with the Eighties , was from a great height . |
| 5 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 6 | He tore at the roots that were pinioning his ankles , breaking his thick horn nails in the process , but the roots held and it seemed to the two watching Renascians , that the Tree Spirits swayed and murmured with amusement . |
| 7 | ‘ We ca n't throw this system away in five years ’ time , like Pearl is now doing with the first general ledger it installed in the mid-eighties . ’ |
| 8 | It happened on the twenty second of the eleventh ninety one . |
| 9 | It happened after the two strippers invited a man in the audience to join them on stage . |
| 10 | The law , the most draconian to have been passed by any mainland state , could not take immediate effect because it conflicted with the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision — the foundation of legalized abortion in the USA . |
| 11 | The dominant critique of local government as it existed in the 1960s was relatively straightforward . |
| 12 | The theory of heredity as it existed in the 1940s , then , was one of genes linearly arranged along chromosomes , influencing the characteristics of the organisms in which they found themselves , and being transmitted via egg and sperm to the next generation . |
| 13 | The ideology of Enlightened Despotism , however , as it existed in the three or four decades before the French Revolution , was not the expression merely of intellectual forces . |
| 14 | It began in the 1920s when Glen Sample , an American advertising agent , had the idea of adapting a newspaper serial for the radio , a medium already dominated by commercial interests . |
| 15 | Brainstorming on creative tasks has been a major activity in the advertising business where it began in the 1930s . |
| 16 | The role of foremen or front-line supervisors in these evaluations is a central one and it developed during the 1950s as an integral part of efforts to promote QC activities . |
| 17 | It developed from the 1920s onwards , particularly for mass consumer goods produced in large production runs , although it spread to the ‘ production of standardized intermediate components for the manufacture of these means of consumption ’ ( Aglietta , 1979 : 117 ) . |
| 18 | Growing up in our culture , there 's a certain standard for beauty and I think it evolved from the Sixties and Seventies through the Eighties . |
| 19 | How it varied between the two sides . |
| 20 | The Editor , Rev Obed Ochwanyi , said the newsletter is designed to ‘ sustain Christians ’ while the NCCK finalises its plans to launch a national church newspaper , similar to Target which it co-published in the seventies and eighties with the Christian Council of Tanzania . |
| 21 | It started in the 1970s as a substantial catching-up exercise , mainly centred on Paris . |
| 22 | For a long time it looked like the 500 GP career he started just last year would be very short . |
| 23 | According to the Gallup Poll , it disappeared in the 1983 election , the Conservatives drawing more support from men than from women ( 46% to 43% ) , thus replicating similar developments in the United States and Scandinavia during the 1970s . |
| 24 | It fell in the 1970s and early 1980s while the abortion rate was rising . |
| 25 | To the readers of 1850 it represented on the one hand a great Romantic apologia , though the stress on the French Revolution would not have pleased ; on the other hand it could be seen as specifically a mid-Victorian poem , contemporary with the work of Tennyson , George Eliot and Matthew Arnold . |
| 26 | By the early-to-mid-1990s the landscape may have changed , as it did in the 1900s and 1940s . |
| 27 | Much of the major investment in this country 's telecommunications infrastructure in recent years has been from BT , which has made a much bigger contribution to the Exchequer than it did in the 1970s , as it is more efficient , more productive , sells more services , makes more money and pays more tax . |
| 28 | The company , which has been beset by overwhelming demand for its budget lines , says that it expects to balance supply with demand for most of its products during the current quarter — although it shipped more than twice the number of machines in fourth quarter 1992 as it did in the 1991 period , the backlog has continued into the current quarter . |
| 29 | In spite of changing perceptions of the environment and the differences that has made to the Trust 's approach , it is the ability to manage property in a sustainable way , that underpins the Trust 's relevance to protection of the environment in the 1990s sense of the word just as much as it did in the 1890s , in the Victorian sense of the word . |
| 30 | The green belt policy commands even wider support today than it did in the 1950s . |