Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [num ord] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 2 | One of the main themes of lesbian feminism of the last years has been trying to create a forum in which women can talk about sex , feel happy about sex , and consume sexually explicit material without guilt . ’ |
| 3 | The last is usually to be regretted but there have been occasions when long-standing marital unhappiness was resolved by admission to residential care in the last years . |
| 4 | Despite his notoriety during the Cultural Revolution , Chen even secured a limited rehabilitation in the last years of his life and was allowed to do historical research at the Literature and History Museum in Peking . |
| 5 | But then the civil war of the first years of the new century caused what was virtually the collapse of the French army , a collapse confirmed by the defeat at Agincourt at the hands of English men-at-arms and archers . |
| 6 | They began to regain lost ground in the first years of muhammad Reza 's reign , were probably involved in his attempt assassination in 1949 , succeeded in killing the prime minister in 1951 , and initially allied themselves with Dr Mossadeq 's campaign to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company . |
| 7 | In the main cities , the early primitive stations were replaced by grandiloquent specimens in the last years of the nineteenth century and in the decade before the First World War . |
| 8 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |
| 9 | Eardwulf met and countered a succession of threats from rival aethelings in the first years of his reign . |
| 10 | The purpose of every Home is to care for elderly people during the last years of their lives . |
| 11 | From the General Staffs ’ point of view , there were some bright patches in the otherwise sombre overcast of the last years of the 1950s . |
| 12 | The Zimbabwe Scientific Programme ( ZIMSCI ) project is designed to support teachers not trained in science and to provide a complete science package with low-cost kits for the first years of secondary school . |
| 13 | Although he did not master the Russian language during his stay at the Frunze Military Academy in the last years of Stalin , thirty years later Ceauşescu revealed a fine grasp of the vocabulary of Stalinist architecture . |
| 14 | One of the most notable features of the first years of the invasions was the development of monasticism in southern Gaul . |
| 15 | The heavy congregational and denominational petitioning in the last years of slavery suggests this ; so does the image of ranks of black-coated nonconformist ministers at the antislavery conventions of the 1830s . |
| 16 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 17 | Theudebert I was already an active figure in the last years of his father 's reign , and he had the support of a military following , his leudes , with whose help he made good his claim to the throne . |
| 18 | Sunbeds have received a lot of bad publicity over the last years . |
| 19 | They then made hard progress to 8s ( 40p ) over the next decade before enjoying a moment of relative prosperity in the last years of the war , reaching 12s ( 60p ) in 1814 . |
| 20 | Contrary to some popular images , normally this does not seem to be reversed in a significant way during the last years of life of the older generation , except perhaps where a person receives substantial personal care , but is not in a position to repay it through bequests after their death . |