Example sentences of "grow [adv] in [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rubber was first grown commercially in the 1890s . |
| 2 | The venture capital industry has grown rapidly in the 1980 's and into the 1990's , from around twelve in the mid 1970's to approximately 124 at the present time . |
| 3 | Essentially , there had grown up in the 1930s a system of subsidies which enabled milk to be bought cheaply by local education authorities for distribution ( free or at minimal cost ) to children . |
| 4 | True to his predictions , the population of Europe and North America did indeed grow dramatically in the 150 years that followed . |
| 5 | World food output had grown steadily in the fifties and sixties ( except in 1965 and 1967 , after Indian droughts ) . |
| 6 | Foreign imports into Britain continued to grow rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s while UK exports of manufactures levelled off from the late 1970s , making the UK a net importer of manufactured goods for the first time in the long history we have described ( Figure 2.1 ) . |
| 7 | In Eastern Europe the opposition movements which began to grow rapidly in the 1980s were finally successful in bringing about the collapse of the communist regimes , but they have not yet been able to create an acceptable and stable new order ; nationalist movements have proliferated , and a new labour movement has emerged which contests the policy of restoring free-market capitalism that has so far produced only economic disaster . |
| 8 | Does the Secretary of State agree that , to obtain a balanced view , we must consider not only unemployment but employment and self-employment , which grew steadily during the 1980s under the Government and is set to grow further in the 1990s under the same Government ? |
| 9 | Truth , Dare , Promise : Girls Growing Up in the Fifties ( Virago : 1985 ) |
| 10 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 11 | Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s were fortunate enough to enjoy the Eagle comic every week . |
| 12 | Thanks to the several hundred Young Guardian readers who wrote their accounts of Growing Up In the Eighties for the Outloud column . |
| 13 | Perhaps the most poignant part of her latest novel is the story of Christine , oldest of the sisters , who grows up in the 1950s , and is later described by one of her sisters as ‘ a feminist before her time ’ — which is , as the sister observes , a highly lonely position . |
| 14 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 15 | IT GREW rapidly in the 1920s and 1930s , its most famous acquisitions being the Cannon Brewery company in Clerkenwell , EC1 in 1930 ( which itself had acquired Holt 's Marine brewery in Ratcliffe Road , E7 ) . |
| 16 | The monumental Portland Building rose in the early 1950s and teaching and residential accommodation space grew rapidly in the 1960s and 70s to keep pace with the growing demand for university places . |
| 17 | For example , the public sector services ( the bottom three categories in Table 3. 1 ) , grew rapidly in the 1960s and early 1970s and accounted for over half the total increase in service jobs in this period . |
| 18 | Consortium banks grew rapidly in the 1960s as a means of giving the owning institutions access to London 's money markets . |
| 19 | In a recent review of rural leisure and recreation research Owens ( 1984 ) has commented on not only how participation in rural leisure and recreation grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s , but how it was also accompanied by a surge of interest in applied research which has since spawned an enormous literature . |
| 20 | EVERYONE who grew up in the Sixties has heard of Transcendental Meditation and its founder the Maharishi , the giggling Indian guru who guided the Beatles through their flower power phase . |
| 21 | Parents who grew up in the sixties , when the cult of the teenager first took hold , may still look and feel young and be unready to acknowledge that their children are growing up . |
| 22 | I know , I know , it 's against all the rules of nature , and we free spirits grew up in the Sixties letting our hair just be , did n't we ? |
| 23 | This market grew up in the 1950s when the local authorities began to raise money for capital projects by issuing bills and bonds , and by raising loans . |
| 24 | We grew up in the '70s , and that 's what we were told , and then we grew up and all of a sudden they say no , you ca n't do that . |
| 25 | Although the Poles participated in the Reichstag , in the Prussian Diet and in the North German Union Parliament , their main areas of activity lay in the co-operatives , culture clubs , in popular education societies , reading rooms , choirs , orchestras and libraries that grew up in the 1880s ; in Catholic social organisations , in the physical culture movement and in the popular Polish-language daily newspapers like the Grudziądz Codzienny . |
| 26 | Lots of firms which grew up in the eighties have collapsed leaving debts unpaid and it 's very hard for the rest of us |
| 27 | In response to the massive changes that were taking place throughout Germany a whole series of patriotic clubs and societies grew up in the 1890s . |
| 28 | The Black Muslims , founded in the 1930s grew fast in the 1960s ; their most celebrated recruit was Muhammed Ali , the world heavyweight boxing champion . |
| 29 | The Metropolitan Line grew fast in the 1860S and 1870S , the District Line joined it and it spread its branches out into the open countryside to the north-west of London . |