Example sentences of "[art] last years " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also cared in the last years of her career . |
| 2 | Despite his notoriety during the Cultural Revolution , Chen even secured a limited rehabilitation in the last years of his life and was allowed to do historical research at the Literature and History Museum in Peking . |
| 3 | The last years of his life seem to have been largely given over to this task . |
| 4 | ( William and Dorothy Wordsworth rented Racedown in the last years of the eighteenth century . ) |
| 5 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 6 | From the General Staffs ’ point of view , there were some bright patches in the otherwise sombre overcast of the last years of the 1950s . |
| 7 | There is no need to chronicle in detail the conflicts of the last years of O'Neill 's administration . |
| 8 | It would seem fair to conclude that while for the bulk of the population Hitler 's image was no doubt related in an abstract fashion to finding a ‘ solution to the Jewish Question ’ , this was an issue which people either gave little thought to or deliberately turned their minds from , and that , correspondingly , Hitler 's public attacks on the Jews were something absorbed with little deliberation , forming no central part in explaining either the high peaks of his popularity or the collapse of the ‘ Führer myth ’ in the last years of the war . |
| 9 | Looking back at your career to , say , the last years of the Great War I am reminded of that poem quoted at the end of Pasternak 's Dr Zhivago , ‘ To live one 's life is not as easy as crossing a ploughed field' ! |
| 10 | One was the absence of faction round an heir to the throne old enough to provide a focal point for political opposition , The only exception came in the last years of James III ; in 1488 , in the second and final crisis of his reign , his opponents could use his fifteen-year-old son , the future James IV , as their figurehead . |
| 11 | A prophetic warning came from Canon Hensley Henson in his pamphlet Cui Bono ? , published in the last years of the century . |
| 12 | In Chronic Diseases we are told that when giving remedies in solid form i.e. solid form i.e. granules or powders dry on the tongue , Hahnemann found that remedies prepared with more than two shakes were too strong so stayed with two strokes for consistency ; but during the last years since I have been giving every dose of medicine in a solution , divided over fifteen , twenty or thirty days and even more , no potentizing in an attenuating vial is found too strong , and again I use ten strokes . ’ |
| 13 | Freemantle and the newly ordained Richard Grey remained Crewe 's closest confidants through the last years of his life . |
| 14 | From Jacob 's correspondence it is clear that he knew little of Modigliani 's life in the last years . |
| 15 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |
| 16 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |
| 17 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 18 | A fascinating example of the dehistoricization of history is provided by the two novels published to date by the poet Roberto Pazzi , Cercando l'imperatore ( Looking for the Emperor 1985 ) and La principessa e il drago ( The Princess and the Dragon 1986 ) , both set in the last years of Tsarist Russia . |
| 19 | Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life . |
| 20 | Between the last years of the 16C and about 1653 , they rebuilt the Church of St Salvator making it the first church in Prague of the Counter-Reformation . |
| 21 | The last years of the 16C saw a blossoming of Jewish intellectual life , the central figure of which was Judah Loew ben Bezalel ( see below ) . |
| 22 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 23 | Incomprehensibly , there seem to be as many spotters now in the days of dull diesels and anonymous electrics as there were when we were train-spotters in the last years of steam and the trains bore names like Bihar and Orissa , Baroda , Indore , Drake , Camperdown , and Barfleur , names redolent of history and tradition , summoning up fragrant images of far-off places and the martial rattle of distant centuries . |
| 24 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |
| 25 | In the main cities , the early primitive stations were replaced by grandiloquent specimens in the last years of the nineteenth century and in the decade before the First World War . |
| 26 | Elsewhere , railways in the last years of the century became an inseparable feature of the ambitions of a self-confident age . |
| 27 | During the last years of the war it was noticed that rather a high proportion of soldiers were failing to be cured by the standard doses of M & B 693 , as the sulphonamide was called , and this was the first clue to the potential in the gonococcus for developing resistance to antibiotics . |
| 28 | Empire Day in the last years before the Great War was described as celebrated with a procession led by the Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry through gaily decorated streets . |
| 29 | But it was Arsenal , where Chapman had spent his longest period as manager , who held the limelight in the last years of peace . |
| 30 | The purpose of every Home is to care for elderly people during the last years of their lives . |