Example sentences of "[adv] to the [adj] year of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industrial revolution and the creation of parks around the country houses have taken us down to the later years of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The findings were drawn from the study of both cohorts but relate only to the first year of the course . |
| 3 | Only the Gittinses and the Hanmers were resident gentry from the second quarter of the sixteenth century through to the early years of the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | Up to the early years of the twentieth century , the typical pattern of foreign investment was of the portfolio type , where private capitalists individually , or through financial organizations , would invest funds in such foreign enterprises such as railways or mines or trading companies , and simply collect the dividends as they came in . |
| 5 | We intend to use a good number of the shots for promotional and exhibition uses in the run up to the 1993 Year of Railways . |
| 6 | Up to the last years of the eighteenth century , declining levels of employment in agriculture for the wives and daughters of the countryside could have been offset by the taking in of manufacturing work . |
| 7 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 8 | The work of cataloguing goes back to the early years of Italian unification in the late nineteenth century when the first photographs were taken of archaeological sites and of celebrated pictures and monuments . |
| 9 | Using this technique , he often traced the symptoms back to the early years of the patients ' life . |
| 10 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 11 | If we look back to the middle years of the nineteenth century and to the debates about the extension of the franchise to the working class then hopes were expressed as to how voters should behave at the same time as there was anxiety and fear as to how they would actually behave . |
| 12 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 13 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |