Example sentences of "by [art] [adj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And by the 1960s a type of credit sale had evolved to meet the Inland Revenue 's requirements for tax relief eligibility . |
| 2 | In the 1950s European population was still concentrating into metropolitan cores ( perhaps in part as a process of adjustment to rebuilt cities ) , but by the 1960s a reversal had taken place , with people decentralizing from cores to rings , a process which accelerated in the 1970s . |
| 3 | The UN World Food Programme , approached by the Sudanese a week earlier , had reportedly already delivered 19,000 tonnes . |
| 4 | By the 1920s a mood of sombre professionalism had set in , best exemplified by the founding of the Review of English Studies in 1925 . |
| 5 | Records still give no indications of use other than corn milling , but by the 1690s a fulling mill and dye house had been added , possibly much earlier . |
| 6 | In the 1950s Dulles ' threat of ‘ massive retaliation ’ in the event of war , did not seem unrealistic but by the 1970s a position of ‘ mutually-assured destruction ’ was reached between the Superpowers . |
| 7 | By the 1740s a decline in general discipline seems to have set in . |
| 8 | By 1964 there were 4.4 million TV sets ; a second TV channel began transmitting programming in April ; the amount of programming transmitted by the two channels rose from 4000 hours annually to 7400 hours ( 1964–7 ) ; the number of TV sets rose by a million a year between 1964 and 1967 . |