Example sentences of "up in the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From McIntosh 's point of view it was not an easy decision to pull out of institutional sector research as he was involved in setting it up in the mid '70s . |
| 2 | Wages councils , set up in the early 1900s , have no role to play in the 1990s , ministers argue . |
| 3 | The ILEA 's Alternative Use of Resources ( AUR ) Scheme , set up in the early 1970s , gave schools limited control over staffing and other parts of their budget . |
| 4 | Most of these were set up in the early 1970s , often from existing sites rather than de novo . |
| 5 | Thus , the Alliance for Progress , which gave rise to many agrarian reform programmes , was set up in the early 1960s . |
| 6 | In Liverpool , where I grew up in the early 1960s , one could no more not have an interest in football than fly to the moon . |
| 7 | Set up in the early 1960s , it was a three-year full-time course with four broad areas of specialization ; fine art , graphic design , three-dimensional design , and textiles/fashion . |
| 8 | Checkpoint Charlie , the crossing point set up in the early 1960s between East and West Berlin is to be opened to millions of people on Wednesday . |
| 9 | For funding reasons , health service membership of the teams was slow to build up in the early 1980s and key actors in the local health services were never entirely happy with the developmental role assigned to the CMHTs . |
| 10 | The village , which is home to 132 orphans , was set up in the early 1980s by Mr Mr John Foster , a teacher at the former Central Comprehensive School in Darlington . |
| 11 | Part of the palace was a rather plain , square , white building put up in the early 1960 's for stat visitors . |
| 12 | The Still Waters project began two years ago , while Denyer was doing shoots for the Broads Authority , a body set up in the late 1970s to manage and protect the area . |
| 13 | In Honduras , the pressures of a growing debt crisis built up in the late 1980s . |
| 14 | The numerous non-manufacturing subsidiaries ( such as travel agencies , restaurants and computer software firms ) that were set up in the late 1980s are most vulnerable . |
| 15 | The most obvious targets are the unwieldy conglomerates built up in the late 1960 's and early 1970's which still represent an area of managerial weakness in the British ( and U.S. ) economy . |
| 16 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
| 17 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 18 | By the mid-1970s our collective view was that , with a few notable exceptions , Soviet technology was on a distinctly inferior plane to that found in the major Western industrial countries and , moreover , had shown no signs of catching up in the previous 15–20 years . |
| 19 | Such a proposal is now of another era , however , and I was present when an ex-Dean of Academic Studies at the college presented a paper ( Stead 1980 ) attacking the trend to expensive , amalgamated police units which had grown up in the previous two decades . |
| 20 | The poem is thus curiously " displaced " , a late Victorian work turning up in the crisp 1930s , the Auden decade . |
| 21 | Both grew up in the lonely forties , and both were nonconformists . |
| 22 | In case you had n't noticed , Ulster 's John Reid is having a barnstorming season and he could end up in the top four in the championship with over 100 winners . |
| 23 | In case you had n't noticed , Ulster 's John Reid is having a barnstorming season and he could end up in the top four in the championship with over 100 winners . |
| 24 | ‘ I grew up in the Swinging Sixties , ’ she broke in : ‘ Beatlemania , flower children , magic mushrooms . |
| 25 | However , there is still evidence of a lack of deals in Scotland as the standard deals of under £10 million — from family succession , rationalisation , privatisation or insolvency — have virtually dried up in the past two years . |
| 26 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef ( below left ) consists of thousands of coral islands , stretched along the entire coast of Queensland ; yet it has all grown up in the past 9000 years . |