Example sentences of "in [num] [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasional statistics sometimes throw light on the problem ; in 1875 Gladstone 's pamphlet on the Vatican Decrees sold 100,000 copies and it is difficult not to see in this a level of religious interest which later declined . |
| 2 | This may explain why in 1035 Harold 's claim to be Cnut 's son was greeted by some with incredulity . |
| 3 | In 1931–2 Danzig 's trade with Poland dropped from 8,300,000 tons to 5,400,000 tons . |
| 4 | In 1166 Peter 's great-grandfather , Thurstin de Montfort II , had held ten fees from the earl of Warwick , making him the second greatest of his tenants . |
| 5 | In eight week 's time he would be Virginia Grafton 's husband . |
| 6 | In 1934–5 Danzig 's share of Polish trade dropped from 47 per cent to 37 per cent . |
| 7 | In 1943 Macpherson 's career moved westwards , first as head of the wartime British Colonies Supply Mission in Washington , DC , and then in the dual capacity of comptroller for development and welfare in the West Indies and joint British chairman of the Anglo-American Caribbean commission . |
| 8 | In 1755 Rousseau 's discovery of the noble savage had made some men think twice before dismissing the barbaric out of hand , and Milton 's ‘ arched walks of twilight groves ’ were thought to resemble the aspiring arches of the Gothic church . |
| 9 | In 1986 Metromedia 's six US television stations were sold to Rupert Murdoch , who has grouped them into the Fox Television network . |
| 10 | In 1986 Britain 's power stations were estimated to have produced 166.3 million tonnes of carbon dioxide , Germany 187.2 million tonnes . |
| 11 | In 1799 Wordsworth 's own daughter , Caroline , would be almost the same age as Emma ; he had , of course , never seen her . |
| 12 | On his return to France in 1935 Nizan 's conviction that the Soviet state represented the ultimate international safeguard against fascist barbarism and oppression was strengthened by the growing success of the Popular Front movements in France and Spain . |
| 13 | In 1935 Boulestin 's Evening Standard Book of Menus was published by Heinemann . |
| 14 | It has emerged that in 1980 Wallis 's second wife , Martha Hyer Wallis , took four of his paintings , replacing them with copies , to raise a $1m loan . |
| 15 | In 1808 Green 's Sketches of Scenery of the English Lake District , was published on June 24th . |
| 16 | In 1885 London 's earliest snow fell on September 25th . |
| 17 | In 1448 Murad 's army routed Hunyadi once more , this time on the historic field of Kosovo Polje . |
| 18 | Then in 1933 Hoare 's — and its Toby jug trademark — was itself taken over by an East End brewer , Charrington and Co of the Anchor brewery , Mile End Road . |
| 19 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 20 | Turkey 's application for full membership of the European Communities ( EC ) remained deferred for consideration in 1993. Özal 's proposal for a customs union with the EC by 1995 received EC endorsement in a formal communication issued in Brussels on June 6 , 1990 . |
| 21 | And in 1972 Lee 's remarkable shots from around the green snuffed out the British challenge of Tony Jacklin . |
| 22 | In 1972 Tom 's temper had got worse and worse and I felt like packing it in , as we finished seventh at Muirfield , the year Tony Jacklin should have won and Lee Trevino did . |
| 23 | For a long time after its publication in 1903 G.Moore 's Principia Ethica was the most influential work of moral philosophy in English . |
| 24 | In 1993 Nissan 's factory at Washington , Tyne and Wear , will produce the same number of cars with a total workforce , including white-collar , managerial and support staff of 3,800 . |
| 25 | In 1985 Cox 's paper was timely and asked for shifts in American Irish and British labour politics in a wholly correct way . |
| 26 | Daily newspapers were far more aware of how society was changing and in 1929 London 's Daily Express invited its readers to send in postcards giving their own views on films . |
| 27 | In 1929 Nizan 's acquiescence to party discipline did not prevent him from exploring the possibility of working for the party at the edge of the class divide . |
| 28 | In 1929 Eliot 's important article , ‘ Experiment in Criticism ’ , began by discussing the work of Herbert Read . |
| 29 | In 1874 Beecher 's career received a setback of sorts when a newspaper editor with whom he had worked sued him for alienating his wife 's affections . |
| 30 | In 1874 Pilcher 's father died and Sophia took her four surviving children ( one son had died in childhood ) to Celle , near Hanover in Germany , where she died in 1877 . |