Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the total arrears for the 4 years of Community Charge and includes the Region , Districts and Water Charge . |
| 2 | The island had responded particularly to the fervent missionary work of the itinerant Baptist preachers in the early years of the century . |
| 3 | A variety of news items were selected at different times during the three years of the survey . |
| 4 | The social investigations of the inter-war years and the literature of concern about unemployment and other social problems prepared the ground for wartime legislation . |
| 5 | More than 68,000 persons were killed and more than 2 million injured on British roads in the 10 years prior to the outbreak of war , but Tripp was able to advocate not just improvements to major roads as one way of reducing the number of fatalities and accidents , but complete road systems . |
| 6 | Otherwise that person having worked for four different employers during the forty years will not retire on two-thirds of final salary , but will retire on two-thirds er only perhaps the last employer for the last ten years . |
| 7 | Though the unit still has responsibility for keeping ministers informed of developments in the UK oil and gas industry , most of the 86 staff working for OSO now focus on worldwide developments , including opportunities in the former Soviet republics and other areas which were closed markets to British exporters until a few years ago . |
| 8 | His main point was that the marked differences in income and wealth persisted between the social classes throughout the inter-war years had provoked little animus and a remarkably timid response from the working class . |
| 9 | Its social problems in the pre-1914 years were problems of growth rather than decline . |
| 10 | If , then , we recall that there were degrees of nobility and aristocracy , we can admit that the leadership of French and English armies during the Hundred Years War was very largely noble . |
| 11 | Various more or less precise suggestions as to the structure of such a federation were put forward by different writers in the earlier years of this period — by the Quaker William Penn in his Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe ( 1693 ) , by another Quaker , John Bellers , in his Some Reasons for an European State ( London , 1710 ) , by the author of the anonymous Cardinal Alberoni 's Scheme for reducing the Turkish Empire to the Obedience of Christian Princes ( London , 1736 ) and by Saint-Pierre himself . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , it is not certainly fictitious , for the paucity of English sources on the later years of Cnut 's reign makes their silence inconclusive , and Robert may have been moved not only by feeling for the æthelings and his apparent friendship for their sister Godgifu 's husband , Count Dreux of the Vexin , but also by memories of his rift with Cnut 's sister Estrith . |
| 13 | They are still arguing about the scientific theories of the early years of this century , like relativity and quantum mechanics . |
| 14 | The most remarkable of these long-established families were the Boulters who had established no fewer than eight different households during the 100 years or so that they had lived in Wigston . |
| 15 | From the toing and froing of the social exchanges of the early years , exchanges which are imbued with misperception and misattribution , children construct blueprints of their world and their place in it . |
| 16 | Although the endless state visits to Harare or Mauretania always climaxed with the publication of pompous declarations and assertions that trade was going to increase by generous percentages within a few years , the consequences of these visits were negligible apart from providing a few more exhibits for the trophy rooms in Bucharest . |
| 17 | Above : The Saunders ' kitchen has had three different looks in the 16 years they have lived here , each created by John , an architectural interior engineer . |
| 18 | Amongst a large number of writings , Unemployed Struggles , 1919–1936 ( 1936 ) , The Problem of the Distressed Areas ( 1937 ) , Ten Lean Years ( 1940 ) , and his unfinished autobiography , Never on Our Knees ( 1967 ) , are important polemical documents of the inter-war years . |
| 19 | At the same time , the social benefits in the few years since 1979 have been significant . |
| 20 | So expect some big changes to the type of tackle you will see at different events over the coming years . |
| 21 | Where the palace , the temple , and the cathedral had inspired their Victorian predecessors , British station-builders of the inter-war years chose more ‘ democratic ’ models — the cinema ( Surbiton ) , the bank ( Exmouth ) , and , with unintended irony , the garage ( West Monkseaton ) . |
| 22 | His father , his paternal grandfather and one of his uncles were all porcelain painters in the Meissen potteries , but because of the disastrous economic effects of the Seven Years War his family were not well off . |
| 23 | So far as adult education is concerned it would seem reasonable to expect some significant response to the women 's movement given the close association between adult education and popular political movements in the formative years , and also because women constitute the majority of students , in current adult education provision . |
| 24 | However , the effects of urban growth on rural communities had been recognized as long ago as the late 1930s , when Ashby ( 1939 ) argued that the unbalanced age structure and uneconomic service provision caused by rural depopulation had been offset by the spread of urban population into the rural areas in the inter-war years . |
| 25 | Employment in industrial production has itself declined in Britain and many other advanced countries during the postwar years . |
| 26 | The number of male suicides over the ten years was 2,073 — almost three times the total of females ( 682 ) . |
| 27 | Roy 's performances earned him a deserved reputation as a neat and clever footballer and he came to be regarded by press and public alike as one of Palace 's most consistent performers during the six years he was on our staff . |
| 28 | This system was formalised in the year 802 , although it had been operational in early forms during the preceding years of his reign . |
| 29 | The shedding of older labour has also been a feature of the experience of the cohort just below the statutory retirement age , with male activity-rates in the 60–64 years age-group falling from 83 per cent in 1971 to 60 per cent in 1986 . |
| 30 | So , for example , they would know the current orders and be able to compare these with similar periods in the previous years , they would also have a ‘ feel ’ of production levels , stock levels etc. even though this information may be of a more qualitative rather than quantitative nature . |