Example sentences of "[num] and into [art] " in BNC.

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1 Barrow grew from a single house into a fishing village of some 300 people by the 1840s and into a town of 40,000 people a generation later .
2 His marriage ended , he was distracted by love , and for a while at the time of the oil crisis it was hard to make a sale , but towards the end of the Seventies and into the Eighties , things picked up .
3 As BR looked towards the 1970s and into the 1980s , it was realised that if InterCity was to survive the growing threat posed by the airlines and the rapid extension of motorways , train speeds would have to be lifted beyond the prevailing norm of 80mph start-to-stop between main business centres .
4 In terms of overall rate of population growth , the gap between the four regions of the South and those comprising the rest of Great Britain — which had narrowed to only 1.6 points ( per thousand people a year ) in 1974–77 — widened progressively through the remainder of the 1970s and into the 1980s ( Table 4.2 ) .
5 As a former teacher with a wife who is a teacher , and as one who was a school governor throughout the 1970s and into the early 1980s , I have always been surprised and disappointed at the way in which most schools are infrequently inspected .
6 With continued social unrest in Britain through the eighties and into the early nineties , it is clear that social protest , particularly with regard to the attitudes and responses of those in authority to collective violence , is back on the political agenda .
7 The main impetus in Britain for measures to deal with age discrimination at the workplace — despite the current recession — derive from the so called demographic time bomb which will be increasingly felt by all organisations , public and private , during the 1990s and into the next century .
8 The report explains that because these farms are ‘ deemed too small to appear in the National Farm Business survey ’ , the government funded research into a sample of 500 holding sin 1986 and 1987 and into a sample of 1000 others between 1988 and 1989 .
9 I want to move out of one and into the other .
10 Two trains come in simultaneously and Hancock simply scampers through one and into the corner seat of the other , while the commuters are struggling to enter .
11 Recognition of this new client awareness came fairly late and it served to liven the ‘ flats versus houses ’ debate at the end of the 1930s and into the 1940s .
12 More generally , there was a growing belief over the 1960s and into the 1970s that Britain 's industrial problems could be overcome through more vigorous entrepreneurship , the supply of which was held to be ‘ market-determined ’ .
13 A stream of regional studies followed throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s .
14 From its inception through the late 1960s and into the 1970s the courses proposed to , and approved by , the CNAA remained predominantly in science and technology .
15 Up until then kits had been simple and smart and gimmick-free , with the Golden Age of styling lasting throughout the Sixties and into the early-Seventies .
16 Losey 's films during the 1950s and into the 1960s did just what Anderson seemed to be asking British films to do , posing questions about contemporary society in strong , engaging narratives .
17 While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s .
18 The relatively less marked advantage for American banks of issuing in the euro markets explains the fall in issuance by American banks in the late 1980s and into the 1990s .
19 Mr MacKay said inward investment into Wales had been the success story of the Welsh economy throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s .
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