Example sentences of "the [num] [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Hood notes , however , they came into ‘ high fashion in the 1940s and again in the 1960s when the Fulton Committee endorsed the idea of government growth outside Whitehall by ‘ hiving-off ’ units from civil service departments to non-departmental bodies ' ( 1981 , p. 100 ) . |
| 2 | As Marx ( 1989 ) has discussed , the science of genetic engineering has been developed only since the 1940s and especially since the 1970s , but its origins really began with the efforts of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel who , in the mid-nineteenth century , established the principles of heredity . |
| 3 | During the 1970s and well into the '80s it was usual for four Pakistanis to fill four quarter-finals places . |
| 4 | Late in the 1370s and early in the 1380s the world order , already upset by long war , seemed set to suffer yet further disruption . |
| 5 | The institutionalization of Hitler 's charismatic leadership , first of all within the Party during the 1920s and then within the State after 1933 , served a crucial function in sealing the bonds between Hitler and the subordinate Party leadership . |
| 6 | When the 60-strong Troop was reduced through casualties to the 38 or so of an infantry platoon , their handling was very similar . |
| 7 | In the 1290s and again in the 1330s the pressure of taxation and resistance to the crown 's recruiting methods led to political crises which undermined the king 's ability to wage war successfully . |
| 8 | Together with the urgent need for skills flexibility at all levels in the workforce in the 1990s , the philosophy of continual retraining , the enhancing and refreshing of existing skills and the establishing of new ones , is likely to be a major theme of European training initiatives throughout the 1990s and well into the next century . |
| 9 | The spontaneity , excitement and vigour which had attended pop music 's greatest flowerings — in the mid-Fifties and again in the mid-Sixties — had , once again , evaporated ; the market-place was now the sole arbiter of style . |
| 10 | So do the Gollancz wrappers of the 1930s and beyond with an audacious mixture of typefaces printed on glaring yellow paper . |
| 11 | But these demands had first found expression in a world of thought provided by non-socialist intelligentsia , first in the 1930s and increasingly during the war . |
| 12 | Despite an expansion in access to education in the 1970s and reforms carried out in the 1960s and again in the late 1970s , the fundamental patterns of inequality have remained and have been accentuated by the war . |
| 13 | Only briefly at the end of the 1960s and again in the mid-1970s did average earnings rise significantly above the all-industry average . |
| 14 | Throughout the sixties and well into the seventies , children were cultivated at school , not taught . |
| 15 | And no Tory government is gon na take away our Health Service from my grandchildren , who will be born in a National Health Service hospital and hopefully will enjoy the benefits and the care during the rest of the nineties and well into the next century . |
| 16 | It seems that the system of central planning , adopted after the Communist Party took power in 1948 , did bring some economic progress in the 1950s and even into the 1960s . |
| 17 | The global success not only of Japanese enterprise in the 1980s but also of the other NICs of East Asia has been seen by some commentators such as Blunt ( 1989 : 21 ) as a spur to the renaissance of studies of effective leadership in recent times . |
| 18 | Sterling issues expanded dramatically in the 1980s but increasingly in the form of eurosterling bonds and Table 3.8 shows the important share that such bonds now have in the total sterling bond market . |