Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [conj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 2 | The conclusion , grandiloquent as it is , is consistent with the honest fears of a young hero who belongs as much to the junior fiction of the 1930s and early 1940s as to the climate in which Frances Hodgson Burnett was writing . |
| 3 | Again , the Corinthians ( i.42 ) urge the Athenians to remove the ‘ previously existing suspicion on account of the Megarians ’ , where ‘ previously , is more likely to refer to the early 430s than to Megarian behaviour c.460 , which was not something Athens could do much about now . |
| 4 | A striking example of this attitude was provided by the academic debate which took place during the early 1950s as to whether the English words " family " and " marriage " represented " universal " human institutions . |
| 5 | Whereas Antarctic mean October total ozone levels were between 280 and 330 Dobson units during the 1957–76 period , they dropped to 225–250 by the early 1980s and to less than 200 in some years during the late 1980s ( figure 6.5 ) . |