Example sentences of "[adj] [num] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions were thus ripe by the height of the emancipation campaign in the late 1820s and early 1830s for the cheap and rapid production of vast quantities of antislavery material and for the expansion and relative cheapness — and consequent probable expansion in readership — of newspapers . |
| 2 | The restoration of the warehouse and the adjoining 457m ( 500yd ) length of canal is viewed with enthusiasm by the Wey and Arun Canal Trust , a society which has worked since the early 1970s for the complete restoration of the Arun Navigation and the Wey and Arun Junction Canal between Pallingham and the River Wey , and which has restored the opportunity for navigation to several stretches of these waterways . |
| 3 | World War I brought big orders for standard Great Central 2-8-0s for the Railway Operating Division and these were scattered widely across the world . |
| 4 | TIM PAGE , photographed above in Vietnam , started work as a photographer in the country in 1963 at the age of twenty , and worked there intermittently until 1969. he has since been back six times — in the early Eighties for The Observer , and more recently to research his book Ten Years After . |
| 5 | But the Bank had been monitoring the situation closely and there had to be ‘ room for debate ’ about whether there would be sufficient demand for office space in the early 1990s for the supply coming on stream . |
| 6 | Plans were laid from the early 1960s for the development of non-asylum types of treatment . |
| 7 | The PLCND group has campaigned since the early 1980s for the unconditional removal of all British and American nuclear weapons from UK territory . |
| 8 | The fact is that neither congress nor the American people were ready in the early 1980s for the demolition of the welfare state , however much conservative theorists might believe that to be desirable . |
| 9 | Ian Norrie began visiting the regions of Britain in the late '60s for the revised Mumby 's . |
| 10 | Laud altered the internal lay-out of Gloucester Cathedral while dean of that diocese , and as Bishop of London he launched a nationwide appeal in the late 1620s for the repair of St Paul 's Cathedral in London , which was on the point of collapse , entrusting major restoration work to the classical architect , Inigo Jones . |