Example sentences of "in the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1851 Harris showed his facsimiles at the Great Exhibition ; his own brief account of his technique and early work appears in the 1852 Reports by the Juries . |
| 2 | The great miners ' riot , however , occurred outside the ‘ Bullers ' Arms ’ in 1842 — a tavern which was not mentioned in the 1852 directory . |
| 3 | In the 1970s scheme after scheme was launched , but there seemed little sense of direction or coherence . |
| 4 | In the 1970s money just was not available to smarten up more than a handful of Provincial stations . |
| 5 | In the 1970s America spent two years and $500m so that two crews could shake hands in orbit — the mission in which the last Apollo capsule docked with a Soviet Soyuz . |
| 6 | But in the 1970s students were flooding into English studies in previously unparalleled numbers across the range of relatively diverse institutions of higher education including the ancient and newer " civic or provincial " universities , the postwar " plate-glass " universities , and the polytechnics . |
| 7 | In the 1970s Ezra Pound 's laminated view of vital and moribund cultures , centred partly on Provence , made her see M. Grimaud 's easy educating communications about the land , the lore , the language in which she found herself , as a sign of real energy in his community which had been ersatz , or only wished-for , in post-Festival of Britain Yorkshire . |
| 8 | Later in the 1970s Idi Amin , then dictator of Uganda , was accused of eating parts of the human beings who , indubitably , died in his torture camps . |
| 9 | In the 1970s Abrams and colleagues carried out the ‘ Street studies ’ of neighbouring and subsequently reviewed neighbourhood care schemes . |
| 10 | In the 1970s differences within cities became more pronounced than those between regions and the focus shifted to dissatisfaction with forms of public provision , particularly housing , and to concern over inner city decline . |
| 11 | A series of inconclusive experiments failed to settle the issue until in the 1970s J. L. Gould finally confirmed von Frisch 's theory . |
| 12 | In the 1970s pollution control was forced upon national and federal governments by pressure groups . |
| 13 | In the 1970s pollution in Cubatao , home of Brazil 's largest industrial estate , reached such levels that the area acquired the reputation of " Valley of Death " . |
| 14 | In the 1970s eurobonds were typically placed in managed accounts , international investors had few alternatives to eurobonds , and there was high demand for bonds , all these factors suggesting ease of entry . |
| 15 | CDP participation in the 1970s discussions of this relationship , and notably of moves towards ‘ partnership in validation ’ , will feature in the next chapter , but it is important to note that the CDP , with an established office and secretariat , and the authority of the first in the field , was never matched by the Standing Conference of Principals and Directors of Colleges and Institutes in Higher Education . |
| 16 | The fate of the great whales has not been a happy one and in the 1970s scientists and conservationists began to express deep concern over their dwindling numbers . |
| 17 | Will my hon. Friend remind Opposition Members that in the heady days of politician-directed industrial strategy in the 1970s Britain had a deficit on our steel trade of £1 billion per year and British Steel lost £16 billion during that decade , whereas now British Steel is the most efficient steel maker in Europe and we have a surplus on our steel trade of £1 billion per year ? |
| 18 | Whereas in the 1970s efficiency meant the maximization of outputs for given levels of input , the language of the FMI , and for that matter other associated developments , indicates that the code of accountable management now in use emphasizes a responsibility ( and accountability ) for reducing inputs regardless of output . |
| 19 | Only northeast Scotland , parts of the southern Uplands and a few areas in the southwest receive less than 10kg/S/ha a year , and in the 1970s deposition was higher . |
| 20 | BURMAH , the oil group which nearly came to grief in the 1970s stock market crash , was one of the few shares to resist Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's gloomy forecast on shares . |
| 21 | Back in the 1970s Alexis Hunter was notable as an overtly feminist artist who produced a series of ‘ photographic narrative sequences ’ designed to challenge the construction of gender roles . |
| 22 | The attempts to improve the performances of nationalised industries were not allowed to run their course , because in the 1970s governments of both major parties used nationalised industries in order to achieve wider macroeconomic targets . |
| 23 | In the 1970s Australia and California were producing such full , fruity and oaky Chardonnays that it was hard to drink more than one glass . |
| 24 | In the 1970s theorists in the United States of America ( Pincus and Minahan , 1973 ; Goldstein , 1977 ) and in the United Kingdom ( Specht and Vickery , 1979 ) developed a social systems theory drawing on the general systems theory widely used in biological science . |
| 25 | In the 1970s Portugal and Spain both emerged from long periods of dictatorship and established parliamentary-electoral systems with remarkable smoothness . |
| 26 | In the 1970s oil prices increased due to economic and political factors . |
| 27 | In the 1970s optimism and faith gave way to disillusion and doubt as medical costs soared with little apparent benefit . |
| 28 | In the 1970s Ann McMillan , later to be Vice-Chairman of the Society , began popular classes at Leatherhead Leisure Centre for TODDLERS and for children . |
| 29 | The impacts of traffic on street life were described as ‘ subtle , complex and , in many instances , very destructive ’ by Donald Appleyard in his pioneering work in the 1970s Pushkarev and Zupan agree , though they perhaps express their view with more poetic licence : |
| 30 | In Cantal , farms ( presumably very part-time ) under 2 hectares in size increased markedly in the same period ; the only other increase was of farms in the 40–200 hectare bracket . |