Example sentences of "the [num] [coord] [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These media were clearly better than the press in helping to combat loneliness and isolation , allegedly more common in the 1970s and 1980s than in the post-war decades , especially among an ageing population . |
| 2 | In the absence of any sustained historical research into football in this period , it is not possible to say how frequent or how violent these occasions were , or to arrive at a balanced comparison between football disorders in the 1920s and 1930s as against those in more recent years . |
| 3 | All were selected by national coaches and all are currently ranked high up in the 16 and 14 and under categories . |
| 4 | For most consensus theorists , the answer lies in a theory of social structure made famous by Durkheim in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and developed to such an extent by Talcott Parsons and his followers in the USA between the 1930s and 1950s that during these years it came to be seen as the sociological theory . |
| 5 | It grew to its current size by selling mainframes in the 1960s and 1970s but since then has seen a decline in this business . |
| 6 | The most rural category labelled ‘ remoter , mainly rural districts ’ was the only one to record an upturn in population growth rate between the 1960s and 1970s and in the latter period recorded an overall growth rate second only to districts containing New Towns ( OPCS , 1981 ) . |
| 7 | Rivalry persisted through the 1860s and '70s and in 1881 Gaze produced a pamphlet which claimed that certain companies were apt to ‘ monopolise powers which are the property of all Tourist Agents , and in the development of which we ourselves have borne so important a part ’ . |
| 8 | The Metropolitan Line , which was begun in 1863 , had additions made throughout the 1860S and 1870S and in 1882 and 1884 . |
| 9 | The pre-unification figures show that the ‘ German miracle ’ was a feature more of the 1950s and 1960s than of later years . |