Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] years of the " in BNC.

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1 During the latter years of the war , Italy had undergone a traumatic experience with battles raging up the length of that country , and emerged with their King Victor Emmanuel resigning in favour of his son , Umberto II , and a succession of coalition governments .
2 The growth of synfuel industries during the latter years of the twentieth century and the gradual increase of the contribution to oil demand made by these oil shale , tar sand , coal based fuels mean an extension of the life of the IC engine probably well into the mid-21st century .
3 The focus of the project is the social and economic history of Aleppo between the latter years of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and the creation of the United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria in 1958 .
4 In the latter years of the last century and until the first world war , American massemployment industry and the less agreeable urban occupations drew their workforce extensively from eastern Europe as well as from the labour surplus of American farms .
5 The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period .
6 It rose to a peak in the latter years of the nineteenth century , the last survivor of ‘ crisis ’ mortality .
7 Like the teachers reported by Keddie ( 1971 ) , the authors of the proposals responded to educationalist questions with educationalist answers , and in the latter years of the project , proposals have clearly been influenced by the growing refinement of the guidelines .
8 The organization was dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism worldwide , and in the latter years of the 1920s Comintern agents began working secretly in the vulnerable , far-flung colonial territories of the capitalist nations to exploit the native discontent .
9 The Minister of the Interior stated on Feb. 21 , in answer to a parliamentary question , that between 1984 and 1989 the names of 820,000 Bulgarian Moslems and ethnic Turks had been changed in the Bulgarian cultural nationalism campaigns encouraged in the latter years of the communist regime under Todor Zhivkov [ see pp. 33670 ; 34509-10 ; 35520-21 ; 36305 ; 36662 ] .
10 They take no account of the markets for multimedia delivered into homes through broadband networks , an area of certain substantial growth , particularly in the latter years of the decade .
11 Also it was particularly strong in the latter years of the war , particularly in the last 18 months , when many , many first and second tour people were coming back to do a further tour , I have wept many a tear for some first class fellows that pestered me , pestered me beyond belief , writing to me every week .
12 In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas .
13 But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control .
14 Within a few years of the introduction of the Dip.AD , it became apparent that all was not well and discontent in some of the art colleges culminated in the so-called ‘ revolution ’ of 1968 which centred on the then Hornsey and Guildford Colleges of Art .
15 How the serious issues emerged within a few years of the miracle of Heliodorus is the question .
16 By the latter years of the war , the experience of government direction and the evident need to recompense the sacrifices of the home population encouraged the desire to carry wartime controls into lasting social reform and post-war ‘ reconstruction ’ .
17 However , by the latter years of the century , both Yarmouth and Bristol had declined , and London was taking over 71 per cent of the imports .
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