Example sentences of "took place in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a plaque on the wall of an abbey near the Hague which records a strange event that took place in the thirteenth century : |
| 2 | The last mass execution of political prisoners took place in the second half of 1988 , when at least 2500 political prisoners were executed in prisons throughout Iran . |
| 3 | A massive growth in management education took place in the second half of the 1960s , both in the further education and the university sectors . |
| 4 | Taking everything together , I strongly suggest that the idea that an economic miracle took place in the first six Thatcher years is a very dangerous myth . |
| 5 | The work mostly took place in the first year base , which was described as : " a large hall and four small rooms each capable of taking a group of twenty . |
| 6 | The first major privatization debate ( as we would now call it ) in this country took place in the first decade of this century . |
| 7 | All were thought to be victims of the fierce military repression which took place in the first three months following the military coup of September 1973 . |
| 8 | Further modifications and addenda took place in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | Anindita Balslev has recently drawn attention to the subtlety of many of the Hindu philosophical arguments , for example that concerning the perceptibility of time which took place in the eleventh century . |
| 10 | The last hunt took place in the ninth century BC , after which the ivory trade was resumed with the inevitable result . |
| 11 | Neither of these proposals was accepted by the men who , both in December 1909 and May 1910 , voted by two-thirds majorities to reject them.46 The talks remained in deadlock through the summer of 1910 , but following energetic efforts by the compositors and the unions representing kindred trades , pressure was mounting for a confrontation , which took place in the last weeks of the summer |
| 12 | Again , the assumption has been that this took place in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , because that is when documents mention the activities of lords and peasants in these areas . |
| 13 | Winkelmann , and thus Kauffman , were part of the ‘ invention ’ of the Greeks as the ancestors of western art , an invention which Martin Bernal has shown took place in the 18th century by displacing the existing stories of art — that Greek culture grew out of the Egyptian , African and Semitic cultures of the Mediterranean world — and producing what he calls the ‘ Aryan ’ and highly racist version of that history which denied the impact of Africa and the Semitic ( Phoenicians in particular ) peoples in order to redefine the Greeks as symbols of a specifically white and anti-semitic Europe . |
| 14 | Large-scale reconstruction took place in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , and among interesting buildings of the later period is a bonded warehouse built of the local limestone in 1830 . |
| 15 | Finally , important changes took place in the eighteenth century in the means by which armies were controlled and maintained by the governments for which they fought . |
| 16 | It is an example based on an interchange that actually took place in the seventeenth century between Galileo and an Aristotelian adversary . |