Example sentences of "[prep] the last months " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 12 July 1330 , during the last months of their rule , the perambulations made during the reigns of Edward I and Edward 11 were ordered to be observed in every particular , and the Forest officers in Shropshire were forbidden to take any action against the owners of lands within the disafforested districts who had taken the deer or cut timber there . |
| 2 | Consequently , during the last months of his life Edward conspired with Northumberland to exclude his half-sister from the throne and to elevate instead the duke 's Protestant daughter-in-law , Lady Jane Grey . |
| 3 | Although James I may have begun to experience some doubts about the validity of the doctrine of predestination during the last months of his life , earlier in his reign he had given little if any encouragement to the Arminian caucus within his Calvinist church . |
| 4 | It is musically unrelated to The Art of Fugue , but its presence in this context — Bach dedicated his poignant revision of the piece during the last months of his life — is neither inapposite nor in any sense to be regretted . |
| 5 | When in London , he stayed with the Fabers ; the capital was being bombed each night through the last months of 1940 , but their house in Hampstead had the additional advantage of a reinforced basement shelter . |
| 6 | I do n't suggest that these unfavourable writings pushed him to do what he did , though I do n't mind suggesting that the bigotry and vicarious piety they may be reckoned to contain could be classed among the negative experiences of the last months of his life . |
| 7 | The problems of the last months are making such celebratory gestures as the David Hockney EC stamp , and John Major 's £6 million European festival of the arts ( almost ignored by the media ) seem pathetically out-of-tune . |
| 8 | Common sense told her that by immersing herself in work the memory of the last months would recede , and with it would go her bitterness and sense of loss . |
| 9 | In most opinion reports from the last months of the war , there is little or no mention of the Führer and the attitudes of the population towards him . |
| 10 | The outcome had remained finely poised until the last months of Henry 's reign , when the conservative cause was seriously damaged by the actions of Norfolk 's son , the Earl of Surrey . |
| 11 | In the last months of 1989 the people of Central and Eastern Europe take it upon themselves to address the future and make it a different place to be in . |
| 12 | Numerous reports from all over Germany make clear how little the German people in the last months of the war was attuned to the heroic strains of the message preached above all by Goebbels . |
| 13 | Despite this glimpse of vintage anti-Semitic paranoia , setting the tone for the new wave of anti Jewish action and propaganda which began in the last months of 1937 and continued throughout the following year , the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was scarcely touched upon in Hitler 's speeches throughout the critical year of 1938 . |
| 14 | Only in the last months of her life did it appear that her policy might not be sustained , because of the changed situation in England and France . |
| 15 | It is Slothrop who gives one kind of impetus to the novel in his desire to explain the correlation between his erections and the falling of the V-2 rockets on London ( the novel is set mainly in the last months of the Second World War ) . |
| 16 | Louis Malle 's moving , semi-autobiographical film is set in a provincial boarding school at Fontainebleu in the last months of World War Two ; twelve-year-old Quentin may be bright , but he does n't understand why new boy Jean Bornet should be so bullied by pupils and protected by teachers . |
| 17 | But in the last months her body began to reject the donor organs and she and her parents , Mike and Sandra Good , were told there was nothing more doctors could do for her . |
| 18 | This young girl usually had all these qualities , though now , in the last months of her pregnancy , she was hardly as slim as a reed . |
| 19 | The Duke of Newcastle , an amiable obliging man whose sense of duty and failure to perceive his own inadequacies had led him to become Prime Minister in the last months of peace and to preside over the move to war , was now very well aware that things were falling apart . |
| 20 | In the last months of John II 's reign Charles of Navarre had raised a rebellion over the succession to Burgundy , which Navarre claimed by virtue of descent from the great-aunt of the last Capetian duke , Philip of Rouvres . |
| 21 | Among them are the four remaining pictures shown by Betty Parsons , whose checklist notes seventeen works , the complete set of five White Paintings conceived in 1951 and recreated , under Rauschenberg 's instructions , by Brice Marden in 1968 , twelve Black Paintings , three gold leaf paintings , fifteen collages created in Rome and North Africa in the last months of 1952 , and thirteen box sculptures incorporating stones , thorns , an insect and other material . |
| 22 | Dismissed in the last months of his life as a spent force who would not match the powerful energy invested in the compositions which he had created at the beginning of his nine-year career , Basquiat briefly recaptured , by the unhappy circumstances of his death , an image of glamour and a wave of speculation which pushed the prices of virtually unsaleable pictures to $500,000 . |
| 23 | The principal interest of these court appearances is in the confirmation they give to the portrait of the National Socialist League in the last months of peace . |
| 24 | Also in the last months before the war Lloyd George appears to have been contemplating a more direct assault upon the Poor Law which had been almost unchanged by the Reports of the Royal Commission in February 1909 . |
| 25 | These doubts about his work were directly related to his predicament in the last months of 1939 . |
| 26 | In the silence of his shelter he was finally letting the true sorrow he felt for all that had happened in the last months come into him , and he was beginning to grieve . |
| 27 | Although we 'd been left pretty much to our own devices in the last months in the Pit , the year and a half underground had become increasingly depressing . |
| 28 | Despite his lame leg , he also served with the hajduk leader Veljko in the last months of the Karadjordje revolt , and fled across the Danube when the Turks recaptured Belgrade in 1813 . |
| 29 | In the last months of 1978 several of his former servants were arrested in this vain hope . |
| 30 | More frequent visitors to the palace in the last months were the American and British ambassador , William Sullivan and Anthony Parsons . |