Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early twentieth century this was undoubtedly less of a calculative relationship than Michael Anderson has described for the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | First we examine the trends in population structure in Britain over the last century and the forecasts for the early decades of the next millennium . |
| 3 | To assess whether mortality was changing during the study , the SMRs for patients diagnosed from 1972–80 and from 1981–9 were compared at 1 January 1981 ( SMR=44.7 ) and 1 January 1990 ( SMR=94.5 ) respectively and were not significantly different ( χ 2 2 1 =2.15 NS ) , which suggests the difference in survival curves for the two decades is due to a different age distribution of patients and does not reflect poorer clinical care in the 1980s . |
| 4 | The focus of the inter-war depression in Scotland , the Northern Region and Wales is universally attributed to specialization in a narrow band of declining industries , and these areas were identified as the principal target of regional policy for the subsequent decades . |
| 5 | Such widespread ignorance is not difficult to explain , since during the middle decades of the sixteenth century there was an acute shortage of ministers to undertake the uphill task of disseminating the new and intellectually demanding beliefs . |
| 6 | What suggestions are there in this extract that British influence in Europe was in decline during the middle decades of the nineteenth century ? |
| 7 | During the middle decades of the century , vast numbers of animals were slaughtered in both India and Africa . |
| 8 | Thus Everton , a modest sized village since at least the time of Domesday Book , lost its separate identity during the middle decades of the nineteenth century and became a working-class quarter of Liverpool . |
| 9 | Arcadelt 's madrigals coincide with the upswing of interest in the expressive , lyric poetry of Petrarch , which attracted something of a cult following in Rome during the early decades of the 16th century . |
| 10 | Together with the painters Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg , Gerrit Rietveld ( 1888–1964 ) formed the vanguard of the De Stijl group during the early decades of this century . |
| 11 | More generally , almost in a caricature of Dicey 's views , a belief grew during the early decades of the twentieth century that , because of the destruction in the balances in parliamentary mechanisms wrought by the rise of party government , the courts formed the last bastion in the protection of liberties immanent in constitutional arrangements . |
| 12 | As we have seen , during the early decades of this century debate in public law focused on the issues arising from the growth in the legislative and judicial powers of the Executive . |
| 13 | Though the Treaty of Kanghwa had stated Korea to be independent , the concept of a tributary relationship remained significant in thinking in both China and Korea , and during the early decades of the Meiji period China maintained a strong influence in the peninsula , being closely identified with the more conservative element whose dominance was resented by so many Japanese . |
| 14 | It was only during the early decades of the present century that English studies ( or , more simply , " English " ) in its recognizably modern disciplinary form began to offer an educationally significant challenge to the intellectual and cultural prestige long invested in classics . |
| 15 | To them , the new theories smacked of materialism , and during the early decades of the century they were quite successful in blocking the spread of radical ideas . |
| 16 | Such was the powerful rhetoric of Grimm and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that the very conducting habits in Paris which they denigrated in the mid-18th century seem to have affected all views about practice during the following decades . |
| 17 | It is a further consequence of this conception that democracy comes to be seen as a more or less perfected instrument which is susceptible to only minor technical improvements ; and in this respect there is agreement with a second notion of democracy , elaborated mainly during the postwar decades , which was expressed by the term ‘ stable democracy ’ . |
| 18 | Its case for wholesale economic , social and political restructuring of the United Kingdom included arguing against the substantial power that the unions had obtained during the corporatist decades of the postwar period , especially within the monopoly nationalized industries . |
| 19 | Two of those references are to research by Professor Harry Smith and his colleagues in Birmingham — work which has certainly moved on during the intervening decades . |
| 20 | The widespread distribution of opportunities for tertiary education occurring during the preceding decades has extended its development into broader opportunities for communal leisure activities . |
| 21 | Where Greenblatt , and most literary criticism of Renaissance writing during the preceding decades , had formerly seen one of the features of the period as the growing ability for some individuals to shape their lives , there emerged a recognition that Renaissance texts were not celebrating human autonomy and unfettered subjectivity . |
| 22 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 23 | With control over Korea and Taiwan secure , Japan 's eyes turned to the territories of Northeast China and Manchuria , and Japan 's search for the acquisition of control over greater portions of Asian territory governed the development of Asian Japanese relations during the four decades up to 1945 . |
| 24 | DURING the four decades that have followed the US Supreme Court 's landmark Roe vs Wade decision , the debate over abortion has intensified to the point of ferocity , culminating recently in the murder of an obstetrician . |
| 25 | Most volumes appeared during the two decades leading up to World War 1 . |
| 26 | Rimbaud would seem to be especially culpable since ‘ the deconstructions of semantic forms , the destabilizations of meaning , as we have known them during the past decades , derive from Rimbaud 's dissolution of the self ’ . |
| 27 | Familial occurrence of chronic inflammatory bowel disease has been reported in several studies during the past decades . |
| 28 | More Danish women than men practise receptive anal intercourse , and it seems this sexual practice has become more prevalent during the past decades . |
| 29 | Tropical diseases are encountered not only in countries of the developing world , but on an increasing scale also in the more affluent parts of the world due to an exponential increase in travel during the past decades . |
| 30 | Tropical diseases are encountered not only in countries of the developing world , but on an increasing scale also in the more affluent parts of the world due to an exponential increase in travel during the past decades . |