Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |
| 2 | It would also appear that in some areas the rougher element ganged up against Boy Scout troops in the early years of the movement , throwing stones at them and mocking their uniform of floppy hats and silly short pants . |
| 3 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 4 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 5 | The institutional and intellectual alliances illustrated by the careers of leading protagonists formed the backbone of the social hygiene movement in the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | As with the merger in 1977 between the then Institute of Bankers and the Savings Banks Institute , the latest partnership will in a few years ' time look entirely natural . |
| 7 | The analysis concludes that 1 million households and more than 2½ million people have dropped out of the legal aid net in the two years since Lord Mackay of Clashfern became Lord Chancellor . |
| 8 | Consequently he was not able to invest in improved mining techniques in the later years of his life . |
| 9 | Equality has been a powerful theme in British politics since the turn of the century and can be seen in practice in the high marginal rates of income tax in the postwar years reaching until recently a marginal tax of 83 per cent on earned income and 98 per cent on unearned income ; the drive to abolish private education and private health ; the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ through rent control ; and the provision of state welfare services financed by taxation but free of charge at the time they are used . |
| 10 | The following is an extract from the above Plan , setting out their basic policy towards rail transport in the coming years : |
| 11 | ‘ Rural development will become an increasingly important element of community policies in the coming years , ’ he said . |
| 12 | As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said , there was a massive increase in business investment in the three years up to 1989 . |
| 13 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 14 | For owner-occupiers , on the other hand , the need to save for a deposit and other expenses , together with the relatively large mortgage payments in the early years means that two incomes are necessary for an extended period and therefore childbearing will be delayed . |
| 15 | This ‘ front-loading ’ of mortgage payments in the early years of the mortgage ( which very frequently coincides with the early years of marriage ) will tend to require two earners at that time . |
| 16 | If this method is based on initial capital costs , it strongly favours long-term projects ( say , over ten years ) against short-term ones and those with good cash receipts in the early years . |
| 17 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |
| 18 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 19 | Now this space and a terrace of standard Great Northern Railway Company houses are all that remain of a venture which attempted to turn Mundesley from a tiny fishing village to a major seaside resort in the early years of this century . |
| 20 | You can see in a Trivial Pursuit question in a few years time what 's the most commonly said three words ? |
| 21 | I remember well being an economics teacher in the awful years of the Labour Government of the 1970s . |
| 22 | Wedgwood first produced fine bone china in the early years of the 19th century and since the turn of the 20th century it has become the company 's major product . |
| 23 | You have to be some chancer to turn down 10 million for a player that could burn out from snorting too much junk food in a few years : - ) ( mixing my puns there , I think ) . |
| 24 | Germany is now paying a price few other countries would have accepted for not providing itself with better citizenship and immigration laws in the calmer years before unification . |
| 25 | A detailed account is to be found in Chapter 7 , ‘ Reading Development Through Topic Work in the Middle Years ’ , in Teaching Reading : The key Issues ( Heinemann 1982 ) . |
| 26 | Despite Dr Clarke 's global scenario , the low birth-rate in Scotland in the early 1970's is working its way through the system and will lead to significantly fewer potential National Certificate clients in the 16–19 year old age range in the coming years . |
| 27 | It allowed coal and steel production on the Continent to be managed more effectively without the need for a restrictive ‘ cartel ’ of businessmen , such as had been formed by steel producers in the inter-war years . |
| 28 | The average attendance at the Grammar School in the six years to 1881 was 138 , but in 1882–86,78 . |
| 29 | The industrial offensive against the trade unions in the early years of the 1890s was ‘ most successful against the dockers , the seamen and the casual trades ’ but all the New Unions lost heavily in membership . |
| 30 | Pakistan also have strong support from ex-Test stars from other countries such as Australia 's respected former captain , Richie Benaud , who says : ‘ On the opening day of the final Cornhill Test I was privileged to witness some of the finest swing bowling in the 44 years that I 've been in the game . |