Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By and large , the first three factors can be discounted for the inter-war years and it is clear that the most important factor was the decline in birth rate . |
| 2 | There are so many compensations for everyone in the family during the teenage years that it is a grave mistake to look on the black side . |
| 3 | I note that the report to which the hon. Gentleman refers says : ’ Labour , if elected , would have little scope for increased spending in the early years unless it were willing to increase taxes by more than it has indicated . ’ |
| 4 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 5 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 6 | In the first year , £3,000 can be invested and up to £1,800 in the following years until you reach the maximum . |
| 7 | Curiously enough , there 's even a hint of a good age for Black artists : in the 1950s , before the Notting Hill race riots of 1958 and before the era of public subsidies , when Denis Bowen of the New Vision Centre and Victor Musgrave of Gallery One consistently showed unknown international artists , many of whom had turned up in London in the post-coronation years because they had heard of the Commonwealth . |
| 8 | In the 30-plus years since I started my CIT life as a student , I have found the many local and national meetings and lectures to have been a valuable way of giving and receiving information and help . |
| 9 | There 've been some big by Shrewsbury over the years , I 'll tell ya there 've been some big clubs here in the past years and it looks very much on the cards again tonight , they have got a massive job on their hands now Blackburn to come back into this . |