Example sentences of "[prep] these years " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was banned from politics between 1964 and 1981 , and spent 10 of these years under house arrest . |
| 2 | The General Strike is often taken as the symbol of the industrial relations of these years — and is seen as an event which brought to an end the militant trade unionism of almost two decades . |
| 3 | The General Strike is often taken as the symbol for the industrial relations of these years — and is seen as an event which brought to an end the militant trade unionism of almost two decades . |
| 4 | Historians have been divided as to the reasons for the political changes of these years . |
| 5 | Antonia Fraser has aptly described the dream-like quality of these years . |
| 6 | When one thinks about it , when one remembers the way Miss Kenton had repeatedly spoken to me of my father during those early days of her time at Darlington Hall , it is little wonder that the memory of that evening should have stayed with her all of these years . |
| 7 | But one aspect of the history of these years does deserve to be recalled . |
| 8 | ‘ The market has to move up sharply one of these years , and 1993 could well be that year . ’ |
| 9 | Historians have disagreed concerning how far the legislative record of the Radical-led but CEDA-manipulated administrations of these years should be regarded as deliberately undoing the work of 1931–3 in the religious , educational , regional , labour and agrarian spheres . |
| 10 | The huge growth of its towns and cities would have been impossible without the medical advances of these years and the action by governments , singly and in concert , which supplied new health and welfare services , and imposed new standards of health , sanitation and accommodation . |
| 11 | Germany 's was the great industrial achievement of these years and her metals industry was the basis of her strength . |
| 12 | Despite the increasing difficulties which Edward faced in financing his wars in Scotland , the parliaments of these years are free of the political and constitutional arguments which had characterized the last years of Edward I 's reign . |
| 13 | The first priority of these years was the provision of the basic requirements of life . |
| 14 | Every business indicator of these years showed the same trend upwards . |
| 15 | Other commentaries went further in their criticism of the Brezhnev-Gromyko legacy , and the new foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze was one of those who was clearest in his call for a proper mechanism of democratic control so that the mistakes and violations of international law of these years did not recur . |
| 16 | In the USSR as well as outside it there were those who had an interest in attacking the record of these years ; they included the ‘ spiritual heirs ’ of Menshevism , of Trotsky and of the kulaks . |
| 17 | The relative peace of these years , therefore , may have owed much to Theodore 's influence . |
| 18 | It is clear that the Mercians under Aethelred had been unable to assert Mercian authority in Kent in the confused circumstances of these years and the limits to Mercian power in this area had been strikingly reaffirmed . |
| 19 | For each of these years our members have enjoyed the good value offered by Homecover in price and cover . |
| 20 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state the amounts of Exchequer revenue raised from value added tax in each of the years 1978-79 , 1986-87 and 1990-91 ; and indicate what percentage of total Exchequer revenue raised in each of these years these figures constituted . |
| 21 | The Library could budget for phased installation of entry level systems within the next three years by spending a proportion of its budget in each of these years , and working on these systems would give us the expertise to proceed to development phase . |
| 22 | In some of these years , for example 1757 , 1766 , 1795 and 1801 , they were very extensive indeed . |
| 23 | Also , one of the sums said to have been paid to the enemy in either 991 ( £10,000 ) or 994 ( £16,000 ) may be wrong , as a surviving treaty which almost certainly belongs to one of these years ( and most likely to 994 ) gives a figure of £22,000 . |
| 24 | So the industrial turbulence of these years is important . |
| 25 | The most influential view is that expressed by a report for the OECD , which sees the intensifying economic difficulties of these years as resulting from ‘ an unusual bunching of unfortunate disturbances unlikely to be repeated on the same scale , the impact of which was compounded by some avoidable errors in economic policy ’ ( McCracken , 1977 , p. 14 ) . |
| 26 | between these years , the increase in victimization measured by the survey ( 30 per cent ) roughly matches the increase of police recorded offences ( 41 per cent ) . |
| 27 | Between these years , some unions which had been mainly male became mainly female eg NUPE ( National Union of Public Employees ) where the percentage of women rose from 24 per cent to 63 per cent , COHSE ( Confederation of Health Service Employees ) from 39 per cent to 67 per cent and USDAW ( Union of Shop Distributive and Allied Workers ) from 40 per cent to 57 per cent . |
| 28 | Full-time female employment in the service sector grew by just 2000 or 4% between these years . |
| 29 | During these years , Lee Krasner painted less than she did before or afterwards . |
| 30 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |