Example sentences of "[adj] year of [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early years of the regime it was necessary to rely on the ‘ retained cadres ’ from the Nationalist government because the working and peasant classes , though loyal politically , could not produce people of sufficient literacy to staff the bureaucracy . |
| 2 | Demand for his services exceeded his capacity to meet the many requests and in the second year of the scheme he acquired a car to provide greater mobility . |
| 3 | During all the long years of the war it was she who kept up the morale of all of us , especially my father , who went through many difficult times . |
| 4 | After serving on various eyres and assizes , he became chief justice of the King 's Bench in 1274 and remained so until 1290 ; in the last ten years of the reign he was chief justice of the Common Bench . |
| 5 | Mary of Guise had infinitely more ability and determination , but for the first twelve years of the minority she had no official role in government , and throughout the whole period her main interest lay in achieving a French marriage for her daughter , even if that meant doing little about the existence of Protestantism . |
| 6 | Each year of the war he divided into two , which he called summer and winter , respectively . |
| 7 | But for the last two years of the war he at least had something to do . |
| 8 | In the last two years of the war I was in orbit visiting every station and squadron in my endless quest for Pathfinders . |
| 9 | 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 . |