Example sentences of "in the 1950s [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.

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1 In the 1950s he was finding work hard to come by .
2 Although the number of recorded offences in that decade was not as high as it had been in the 1950s it is nevertheless an important trend .
3 The Barley Mow brewery was among the very last to still brew draught London porter , which it made until the late 1930s , and even in the 1950s it was famous for another dark beer , its Main Line mild .
4 In the 1950s it was rung by my mother to summon my brother and me to meals .
5 In the 1950s it was only occasionally activated , with nominal headquarters in London ; and indeed any proposals on defence that emanated from its Consultative Assembly were invariably ignored by the member governments .
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