Example sentences of "the [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members were to influence the ‘ industrial history and character ’ of the young people by taking account ‘ of the needs of individual cases ’ and of the general conditions of industry , and by encouraging ‘ the wider use of educational institutions ’ during the adolescent years . |
| 2 | But the adolescent years are not wholly fraught with stormy scenes , misery and rebellion . |
| 3 | The Adolescent Years ( Michael Joseph , £16 ) |
| 4 | Perhaps the confusion of the adolescent years of change would be brought into a proper perspective . |
| 5 | The importance attached to attractiveness declines throughout the adolescent years . |
| 6 | Given the 74 years of Communist dictatorship and the long period of Tsarist dictatorship before that , is it not essential to provide aid and assistance so that at long last Russia and the countries associated with the former Soviet Union can become stable democracies ? |
| 7 | Since Mrs Thatcher 's first victory in 1979 , the country had enjoyed ‘ 13 of the finest years in history ’ . |
| 8 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 9 | Helen Frankenthaler , once significantly ‘ otherised ’ with Mr Motherwell , shows works from the Sixties ( ‘ The Classic Years ’ ) more or less concurrently at Emmerich ( 18 February to 20 March ) . |
| 10 | Trade union membership declined slightly in the depressed years of the mid-1890s , especially in the new general unions . |
| 11 | At various stages over the eleven years , statements were made promising action . |
| 12 | The new exhibition comprises thirty-eight paintings with particular emphasis being placed upon those works which Caulfield has created in the eleven years since his retrospective held at the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool , and the Tate Gallery , in 1981–82 . |
| 13 | In conclusion , it was agreed that we ought not view social security legislation in isolation , but should consider the effects on the unemployed of this legislation and other legislation introduced during the eleven years of Tory government , such as housing , health , education . |
| 14 | One can not compare exactly the customs accounts from the two ports , because those for London ending in 1460 conclude at the end of July instead of the normal date of Michaelmas , so the second period employed in the comparison is that of the eleven years 1450–61 . |
| 15 | Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation , a view reinforced by the high gold price during the inflationary years of the 1970s and 1980s . |
| 16 | His successors , during the seventy-five years after his death in 1725 , added Lithuania , parts of Poland and the Ukraine , Bessarabia , the Crimea and the Kuban region . |
| 17 | The seventy-five years preceding 1066 were a time of great activity in the Canterbury scriptorium , which produced a number of magnificently-illustrated gospel and service-books , as well as many more mundane volumes apparently intended to form a new cathedral library . |
| 18 | This chapter attempts to answer these questions partly by reference to work in the field and in part through a review and analysis of works of fiction typically used as ‘ whole class readers ’ in the lower years of six secondary comprehensive schools and falls into two parts . |
| 19 | The second part of the chapter comprises a narrowing of the focus from arts education in general , to one area in particular , namely English lessons and the fictional literature typically offered to whole classes of pupils in the lower years of secondary schools ; the ‘ class reader ’ . |
| 20 | It is important to note here that although an analysis of individual texts follows , the point of this approach is to provide an overall picture of a pupil 's literary diet across a range of texts met in the lower years of the secondary school . |
| 21 | During the turbulent years of the revolution , coffee production declined , but in the 1930s , new coffee wholesalers entered the area and began to buy for cash . |
| 22 | The Turbulent Years |
| 23 | Parents and children both desperately need each other 's love and respect and it is important to let it be seen that you still accept and value one another , even in the midst of the turbulent years of the teens . |
| 24 | Although historians have differed somewhat less in their interpretations of the religious history of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods than in their views on the turbulent years between 1530 and 1560 , there have , none the less , been a number of notable areas of dispute . |
| 25 | In the post-Bullock years , thinking about writing at secondary level in particular has been dominated by the model developed by Britton and his colleagues at the London Institute for the Schools Council . |
| 26 | Also in demand for private and company charter hire such as conference and product launches , the one-time roadside diner and spring company board room accumulated some 400,000 miles in the eight years of operation since their ‘ second coming ’ in 1982 . |
| 27 | ‘ There is no precedent in living memory for the eight years of sustained growth and surging prosperity that Britain has enjoyed with this Conservative government . |
| 28 | He became increasingly authoritarian and reliant upon the army , which in turn led to the eight years of Amin 's rule , the Tanzanian invasion , Obote 's second government and ultimately the civil war in which Museveni took power . |
| 29 | It was typical of him that after serving as an assistant White House physician during the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration , he became restless after eight months with the more liberal Kennedy Administration and left the White House for service as a deputy surgeon with the Pacific Air Forces , becoming command surgeon of the 7th Air Force in South Vietnam . |
| 30 | In the pre-First World War days of two divisions , the top limit of transfer fees rose in the eight years from 1905 to 1913 from £1,000 to £2,500 , an increase of 150 per cent ; in the first eight years of three divisions ( 1920–28 ) they went up from £3,300 to £10,890 , an increase of roughly 230 per cent . |