Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] 1950s " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of studies , both sociological and historical , carried out in the late 1950s and 1960s provided the basis for a critique of this position . |
| 2 | The story of the creation of the time-scale of magnetic reversals ( the Jaramillo Reve provided the final entry in the time-scale ) goes back to the early 1950s when the scientists at Berkeley perfected the detection accuracy of the potassium/argon method of rock-dating for samples less than a million years old . |
| 3 | Their attempts to abandon many of the ideas and ideals of classical democratic theory were immediately challenged by other theorists ; while their celebrations of actually existing democracies founded on lukewarm politics and " a mainly passive electorate " were countered by the marked revival of popular activity and radical commitment which was already taking off in the late 1950s when these texts were being written and published . |
| 4 | One feels that his ghost may now rest in peace , happy in the knowledge that this exceptional cliff has now fully realised the potential he first saw back in the mid 1950s . |
| 5 | The ‘ general interest ’ illustrated weekly magazines like Picture Post were killed off in the late 1950s by TV , even before the free colour magazines and expanded feature coverage of the Sunday papers , led by The Sunday Times , were introduced in the early 1960s . |