Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] generations of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After four generations of soldiers on both sides the boy cried halt ! |
| 2 | Perhaps it will provide a beacon of hope for future generations of pianists for whom it is not too late to swerve off their mat and sterile paths , to follow the lead of a genuine eccentric and a genuine musician ? |
| 3 | Thus for those choosing to work with vertebrates , the tendency has been to abandon the mazes and skinner boxes of earlier generations of psychologists in favour of classical conditioning of very simple reflexes ( such as heart-rate or eye-blink ) in rabbits , where the neural circuitry can be reasonably clearly mapped . |
| 4 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 5 | The company is aiming for three generations of products over the next few years . |
| 6 | THE Laughing Man , the Parisian robot which for beckoned generations of visitors through the doors of Blackpool 's Fun House , lives on . |
| 7 | Unionists were most distinct from Liberals and from other generations of Conservatives in their age ; the average age was only fifty in 1914 , there were four Unionist MPs under thirty and sixty-two under forty , and half of the party had been under forty when first elected . |
| 8 | The great British driving test has remained stubbornly familiar to three generations of motorists since 1952 . |
| 9 | The book is cursory in its treatment of Eliot 's literary background : there is no mention , for instance , of Wallace Stevens , Ivy Compton-Burnett , of Empson or Leavis , and no adequate picture of what Eliot meant to later generations of intellectuals in Britain . |
| 10 | His social and economic situation continues to be regulated by the kind of disciplines that have been familiar to successive generations of workers on the land — ; poverty , the lack of alternative employment opportunities , the intense localism , the dependency for jobs and housing on local farmers . |
| 11 | Mr Geoffrey Peace of Sheffield can trace his family back from the foundation of the family firm of Samuel Peace and Sons through several generations of filemakers to Anthony Peace , a Rotherham butcher , who died in 1696 . |
| 12 | For many years a companionate relationship may exist between two generations of adults in a family , each leading an independent existence . |
| 13 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |