Example sentences of "[prep] those years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roger , 36 , and a Tory supporter , estimated that after those years of slog and sweat they had debts of £20,000 they had no hope of paying . |
| 2 | It strikes me that Glamorgan have left themselves with another internal problem they could have done without now they are rebuilding and looking for stability after those years of committee trauma and musical chairs among the skippers . |
| 3 | After those years of hard work , she did n't quite know how to be social and high-spirited and careless of the future like so many other girls of her own age . |
| 4 | And Casaubon says of his left-wing , bar-propping days in the early Seventies , ‘ I could write the political history of those years based on how Red Label gradually gave way to 12-year-old Ballantine and then to single malt . ’ |
| 5 | Going on to the inter-war years the authors note that there was no great reduction in the number of incidents reported in the press , despite the reputation of the large crowds of those years fur generally good behaviour . |
| 6 | During five years of the second LBGA ( 1983–8 ) with the Soviet Union , the United States sold its rival grain worth $7 billion and during two of those years — 1986 and 1987 — subsidized the sales to the tune of $450 million . |
| 7 | Now the old Stormont-based hegemony in the north has been swept away , destroyed by its own excesses in the half-century to 1972 — though the poisonous legacy of those years lingers on in terrorism . |
| 8 | Bernard Partridge , Punch 's heavyweight cartoonist of those years , devoted a full page to a leaden joke about the arrival of Lady Astor in the Commons . |
| 9 | This , observed Crosland , ‘ was perhaps the greatest achievement of those years — to bring the problem of teacher supply within sight of solution . ’ |
| 10 | The turmoil of those years seems now , in this new era of superpower co-operation , to be very far away . |
| 11 | The fare for most of those years until 1939 was 6d ( 2½p ) , although it was increased to 9d when the tour was extended to Clifton Drive in 1932 . |
| 12 | As clearly as any incident of those years I remember the books which I read . |
| 13 | The fierce but totally unsentimental family loyalty that saw Brenda and Elaine through the intense pressures of those years — from the shock to the difficult aftermath of Brian 's release — blazes on every page of this book , making it a gripping record of the extraordinary achievement of two ‘ ordinary ’ women . |
| 14 | There they stood beside one another — two proper boys in their school caps and ill-fitting suits , somewhat comical in the early self-consciousness of those years , but still charming in their vitality . |
| 15 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |
| 16 | Among these targets were small components whose size bore no relation to their great importance in the technology of war , and great installations considered indestructible by the air bombardment of those years . |
| 17 | It hurts me now to realize how much I numbed myself from the searing pains of those years . |
| 18 | THEY SPENT 11 OF THOSE YEARS IN A DARK , TINY CELL IN THE SECRET , UNDERGROUND JAIL OF TAZMAMERT . |
| 19 | And six of those years will be spent right here at Crunchem Hall where , as you know , your Headmistress is Miss Trunchbull . |
| 20 | Indeed , those writers who give the Labour governments of those years high marks for achievement , fail to take sufficient account of the manner and nature of the achievement [ Cairncross , 1985 ; Morgan , 1984 ] . |
| 21 | This is typical of those years in which prolonged and more extensive PSC formation would be most likely , and the column ozone was reduced by 40 Dobson Units ( DU ) where PSCs formed . |
| 22 | Now I can feel the deliberate vagueness in her accounts of those years : " Where did you meet Daddy ? " |
| 23 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 24 | The cultural formation , at this level , is still alternative , but in the crisis of those years it was both necessarily involved in political activities , with direct and dangerous consequences , and in an overlap between what might in a different period be seen as separate kinds of practice ; as Godwin justly observed in 1794 , ‘ the humble novelist might be shown to be constructively a traitor ’ . |
| 25 | The African film ‘ Freedom ’ was one fruit of those years . |
| 26 | 41½ of those years were spent in the Key Street office prior to the transfer with Malt to their new home at Kentford last October . |
| 27 | Musica Reservata , perhaps the most influential ( and certainly the most controversial ) ensemble that Britain has ever produced in this field , began in London 's Hampstead during the 1960s , when record shops were stocked with ‘ folk ’ and ‘ ethnic ’ music ; today the heady perfume of those years can still be caught in Tony Bingham 's emporium of rare and unusual musical instruments in that quarter of the city ( illus.4 ) . |
| 28 | In the following year , ninety one ninety two , the number of applications held steady , but the total fee income declined slightly and in nineteen ninety two ninety three , whilst the number of applications fell slightly , the fee income fell considerably , so that in ninety two ninety three er there were more applications than in the , th the first of those , of those years that I quoted , but the fee income was twenty five percent down . |
| 29 | My Lord the only point of interest and it 's really one that I took in the of the submission is that if you use an up to date nineteen ninety three figure for calculating it when it was first back to years three and a half , two and a half and one and a half years ago , then intre it would n't be fair if interest is awarded on that as well because in a sense the increase in the figure that inflation and the increased cost of living has produced because you use an up to date figure , probably equates with the interest and we can the figure an up to date one to avoid just that otherwise it would be getting the figures for each of those years and then working out interest . |
| 30 | Ralph Williams is just 39 and for 30 of those years , he 's bought every ancient tractor or old machine he could get his hands on . |