Example sentences of "in these years " in BNC.
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| 1 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 2 | This is a comment not just on poetic style , but on the substance of the political alternative that Tate and some fellow Southerners were in these years trying to put together , to challenge the industrial capitalism of the restored Union . |
| 3 | Pound has no recourse to that staple of anti-Russian propaganda in every generation ( some of it was being aired in these years in Eliot 's Criterion ) according to which the Russian is ‘ asiatic ’ , outside the confines of Europe . |
| 4 | McMillan gained surgical experience in these years and when , in 1959 , he joined Paul Chin and Eric Machell , both pioneers themselves , at Southampton , they made steady progress in closed and open-heart surgery . |
| 5 | It was in these years that the main contours of ‘ Thatcherism ’ as a phenomenon were firmly established . |
| 6 | In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson . |
| 7 | The uncertain nature of political alignments in these years made it inevitable , then , that a National Government would come under serious consideration as a remedy for Britain 's ills . |
| 8 | However in these years the total area of land devoted to such cash Crops by smallholders was minuscule in relation to the total area in production , and had little impact on the bush/fallow system as it had been traditionally practised . |
| 9 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 10 | Particularly close links were forged with the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives , whose head office was in Northampton and whose Assistant Secretary in these years , Syd Robinson , was chairman of the regional WETUC , chairman of the Northamptonshire Federation and vice-chairman of the District . |
| 11 | The railway industry had a propaganda purpose in the streamlining of outlines and in the new doctrine of modernism in these years . |
| 12 | In these years the American station came of age . |
| 13 | It was , in these years , a good place in which to work . |
| 14 | This factor also accounts for the changes in the shares of imports taken from the Soviet Union and the developing countries in these years . |
| 15 | It is thus possible to see local politics in these years as having , in some degree , a life of its own ’ ( 1985a , pp. 82–3 ) . |
| 16 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |
| 17 | Unitarian tendencies were found amongst some Quakers in both England and Ireland in these years and the Liverpool abolitionist William Rathbone 's sympathetic treatment of them led to his disownment by the Friends and the passage of his family to Unitarianism . |
| 18 | There remained one other tactic in these years , which had an earlier antislavery history too , designed to provide a role for individual abolitionists in England and convince them that they were contributing to advancing freedom internationally ; it was the tactic of economic boycott of slave-grown raw materials or goods produced from them . |
| 19 | In these years the Unitarians were forced out of the Dissenting Deputies and had to fight for control of their chapel property against other dissenters ; tensions and fractures recurrently emerged within the Society of Friends . |
| 20 | ( His claim to fame in these years was the slogan ‘ Kleenex Kitchen Towels mops up like a sponge ’ for client Kimberley Clark . ) |
| 21 | Yet we can still distinguish a ‘ European ’ history with themes of its own in these years . |
| 22 | Such identity and unity as she possessed in these years was essentially the identity and unity of a system of power , though one beginning to decay . |
| 23 | So , European history is a distinguishable topic in these years . |
| 24 | Important as it is to the understanding of the world today , it was in these years only occasionally decisive for Europe . |
| 25 | An example of regional differentiation within a country was Italy , where a strikingly sharper drop in fertility appeared in the north than in the south in these years . |
| 26 | Europeans were consuming more in these years , they were dying of different diseases at later periods of life , their physique ( taking rough measures such as those of height ) was improving . |
| 27 | One other conspicuous feature of the modern scene also appeared in these years . |
| 28 | But at no point in these years did the Armed Forces take the initiative in resolving political disputes and at no stage was it brought into intrigue by discontented Party factions ( exempting , of course , the First Secretary himself ) . |
| 29 | ISS focused on the fourth and fifth years because it is in these years that pupils tend to narrow their curriculum , as schools frequently have a very small core with large option schemes , with the result that some pupils pursue a curriculum that is neither broad nor balanced . |
| 30 | Tournaments were a regular feature of noble life in these years , and in 1344 at an especially magnificent tournament held at Windsor the king took an oath to establish an Order of Knights of the Round Table as it had existed in the days of Ring Arthur . |