Example sentences of "the [adj] this [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1830s this provoked significant tension between antislavery parliamentarians and activists in the country . |
| 2 | Nearing the end of the 70s this became the plumb to pick . |
| 3 | When introduced in the 1840s this created new possibilities for shipping exotic species around the world , protected from changes in the environment . |
| 4 | By the Seventies this had been cut down , thanks to the pressure cooker , hotter ovens and the first electric gadgets , to an hour . |
| 5 | Plans to improve the whole line were under discussion since the 1880's , and during the 1890's this became increasingly feasible as a result of the purchase of the Grand Junction . |
| 6 | From the 1970s this began to change . |
| 7 | In the 1960s it averaged almost 5% per annum , in the 1970s this fell to just under 3% . |
| 8 | By the eighties this produced a panic that the political conditions for feminism were disappearing , too . |
| 9 | Before the 1850s this had been a problem of a relatively few families ; in some countries , such as Germany , of hardly any . |
| 10 | In the 1950s this involved the creation of a ring of military bases around the Soviet perimeter . |
| 11 | By the 1980s this had come to be called ‘ local ’ economic policy , despite its national origins . |
| 12 | He then carefully peeled the front part forwards , muttering to Montgomery about the bruising this revealed . |
| 13 | By the mid-seventies this had become one of the most controversial cultural events on the country . |