Example sentences of "the [adj] [num] it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early 1990s it is envisaged that nurses and health visitors wishing to relicense will have to provide evidence of either current employment requiring a nursing qualification or the successful completion of a re-entry programme approved by the National Board of their country of practice . |
| 2 | The answer to the first two suggestions is ‘ Yes ’ and to the second two it is ‘ No ’ . |
| 3 | While there was certainly an increase in the output of these businesses in the prosperous years of the late 1970s it is doubtful if they did more than keep pace with the fast growth rate for the manufacturing sector as a whole , estimated by the World Bank to be 12 per cent from 1970 to 1982 . |
| 4 | By the late 1660s it is almost certain that , as Thomas Shadwell [ q.v. ] suggests in The Medal of John Bayes ( 1682 ) , he began employing the young Dryden to write prefaces , commencing a relationship that developed through the 1660s and 1670s when Herringman bought up the copyrights to most of Dryden 's work . |
| 5 | Given the very complex nature of France 's post-war politics , especially with regard to Algeria in the late 1950s it is hardly surprising that the SDECE , as the DGSE was then known , has found itself embroiled in numerous scandals . |
| 6 | But in the late 1980s it is the upscale shopping mall — relentlessly post-modern in design , surrounded by a sea of imported cars — which symbolizes our economy . |