Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the 1930s " in BNC.
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1 | As they had done in the 1930s , Soviet organisations approached state-owned Latin American oil companies . |
2 | It was as well that I was unable to visit the Aran Isles , for if they had changed since the 1930s my disappointment might have been too great to bear . |
3 | The time had come , Pravda argued , for a return to the essence of socialism , and for a break with the distorted form it had acquired during the 1930s and 1940s . |
4 | 1 think he would have been amused rather than otherwise at finding his own dishes reappearing as specialities of the starry restaurants of the 1970s , and pleased that reforms in the matter of lighter meals and more logical sauce and vegetable cookery which he had preached in the 1930s have at last been put into practice . |
5 | He retired to the striking hill-top house ( in Monkton Deverill , Wiltshire ) he had designed in the 1930s , its style reminiscent of seventeenth-century France . |