Example sentences of "[conj] [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are writing about Eliot 's poem The Waste Land ( published in 1922 ) for example , you might consider it relevant to know about other events of that year ( or the years when it was being written ) , and so you could look up 1922 in the index to the London newspaper The Times ( the poem is set partly in London and was published there ) . |
| 2 | Age shall not weary them , nor the years condemn . |
| 3 | ‘ They shall not grow old , as we that are left grow old ; Age shall not weary them , nor the years condemn . |
| 4 | In fact , the equation is more challenging the other way round : Pound thinks Joyce a Phenomenon deserving equal attention with Mussolini — a temperate judgement that the years may be thought to have vindicated . |
| 5 | The indictment now levelled against the Government is that the years of Thatcherite prosperity have been matched by a deterioration in public services and the environment . |
| 6 | But architects were not alone in hoping that the years ahead would bring peace and reconstruction to Iran and Iraq . |
| 7 | The treasury officials numbered the royal possessions every two years , so that the years of a given reign were designated as the Year of , say , the Third Numbering , or the Year after the Third Numbering , and so on . |
| 8 | Then the country would truly have known that the years of Thatcherism were over . |
| 9 | A layer of dust seems less important now that the years are numbered . |
| 10 | Looking back , we may say that the years around 1300 were to attain some significance in this domain . |
| 11 | All the windows had roller blinds made of a dark-green fabric so tough that the years of neglect had done nothing to decay or even damage them . |
| 12 | It is easy to say that the years of Unionist rule were a travesty of what democracy is , or ought to be . |
| 13 | Looking back those who worked at Howard can see that the years from 1962 to 1969 were crucial ones . |
| 14 | They assert that the years selected for comparison of profits and investment correspond to differing points in the business cycle , making comparison misleading . |
| 15 | You notice that the years are leaving their mark despite daily work-outs . |
| 16 | If one works back from the sixteenth-century evidence , one is left with a strong impression that the years after 1450 saw the greatest pressure of enclosures . |
| 17 | But it is doubtful whether they would have had any opportunity even to attempt that massive task if the years of the War had not profoundly changed public attitudes , and even softened the mind if not the heart of that great enemy of education and old boy of Harrow , Winston Churchill . |
| 18 | Later I ask if the years of drug abuse — he made the lost classic ‘ On The Beach ’ using honey slides ( lumps of hashish melted in honey ) , he almost did n't appear in The Band 's Last Waltz movie because there was a massive , subsequently disguised , lump of cocaine hanging from his left nostril — are still wearing heavy on him . |
| 19 | It is as if the years in between were inhabited by fragile observations , mere scratches and traces on the skin . |
| 20 | Town planning stood to gain accordingly , even if the years between the wars showed no great practical advance in the design , layout and building of towns over what had been achieved before . |
| 21 | If the years 1829–49 show Beecroft 's genius for winning the friendship and respect of Africans , the period 1849–54 reveals him as a forceful interventionist , determined to establish British paramountcy over what was eventually destined to become the colony of Nigeria . |
| 22 | as if the years were gathered in an hour |
| 23 | The balance of trade in manufacturing swung from a surplus of £2.75 billion in 1979 to a deficit in 1984 of £3.75 billion and the years 1983 and 1984 were the first time in history that Britain 's trade balance was in the red on manufactures . |
| 24 | He had — and the years of their marriage and their son Grub 's early childhood were spent mainly at Gombe . |
| 25 | Most foals are playful , but like other animals and even ourselves , as they mature and the years go by this characteristic diminishes . |
| 26 | And the years would pass . |
| 27 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |
| 28 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 29 | And the years rolled away , and it was a different room , yet still the same , the room where she 'd had her first ; old white paint with the grudging cleanliness of not quite enough scrubbing ; the sticky rubber mat under her bottom , that made her wonder what other bottoms had lain on it , wonder desperately enough to take her mind off her panic at the instrument 's entry onto her , and the thought , it 's like the first screw you ever had — why do we do it , why do we go on doing it ? |
| 30 | Claire sat down , as they had done so many times together , and the years fell away as if they had never been apart and she had never married . |