Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [num] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the recession of the early 1980s this service suffered immensely through poor sales and ultra high terminations — in those days it was said that washroom would be the hardest hit in any recession because it was not seen as an essential service ; much confidence was , then lost in the service . |
| 2 | In the politically charged and uncertain years of the late thirties this imagery was very powerful . |
| 3 | However , from the mid 1980s this situation has begun to change . |
| 4 | In the business-orientated 1980s this phrase came into common usage . |
| 5 | In the early 1970s this kind of teaching enjoyed some clear official blessing , especially during Shirley Williams ' tenure at the Department of Education and Science . |
| 6 | In the late 1970s this model of curriculum development found favour in the UK . |
| 7 | In the late 1950s this order of dress was even more carefully observed and I saw a detective sergeant ordered home to change from Harris tweed jacket and flannels into ‘ proper clothing ’ . |
| 8 | Since the mid 1970s this source has brought together information from census and vital registration records for a one per cent sample of the population of England and Wales . |
| 9 | Up to the late 1950s this inflow of dollars was generally welcome as it relieved the earlier shortages . |
| 10 | His chief inspiration came from Christopher Wren , and by the early 1900s this influence in Lutyens 's work was paramount : he called it his ‘ Wrenaissance ’ . |
| 11 | By the early 1980s this strategy had been linked to the idea of local government acting as a mobilising force for working-class organisations and radical action groups of various kinds ( Blunkett and Green 1983 ; Gyford 1983b ; Boddy and Fudge 1984 ; Seyd 1987:Ch. 6 ) . |
| 12 | By the late 1890s this argument had become much harder to sustain . |