Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj -er] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The question is then do we use up more future benefit in the earlier years than in later years ? |
| 4 | Secondly , the APU data suggest that this may well be a neglected area in the later years of secondary schooling both from an assessment viewpoint and in curriculum terms . |
| 5 | While enclosure came later to the Lake District than the southern parts of England , there is plenty of evidence of rural depopulation in the later years of the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | It went on to accept ‘ the principle that professional experience should be based on theoretical completeness , and that training in often petty procedures during the earlier years in professional offices has little bearing on the exercise of professional judgement . ’ |
| 7 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 8 | Humiliating reverses and exorbitant costs combined to amplify the message of the pacifist so that by the end of Edward 's reign wherever one looks disillusion with war has displaced the zestful and righteous belligerence of the earlier years ; now preachers , poets , chroniclers and prelates utter words which are gloomy and despondent . |
| 9 | The mood of self-assured hubris among economists of this period was shaken to its very foundations in the later years of the 1960s . |
| 10 | This may , however , underestimate the volume of marital breakdown in the earlier years of marriage , for several studies have shown that couples may split up , on average , five years before they actually divorce . |
| 11 | But above all , he would unreservedly acknowledge his profound indebtedness to the three tutors who were instrumental in the successful achievements in the later years of the decade : Douglas-Smith , Edmund Poole and Hampden Jackson . |
| 12 | I have already mentioned that the decisive electoral victory for the Labour Party in 1945 reflected a substantial shift of political and ideological alignment in the later years of the second world war , a radicalisation of which Calder ( 1969 ) gives an eloquent account . |
| 13 | This trailblazing series is currently on show at the National Portrait Gallery in its entirety for the first time since 1935 , together with more conventional colour portraits of John Gielgud , Vivien Leigh , the Mountbattens and Lisa Maugham , and black-and-white work from the later years . |
| 14 | The designs differed from country to country , but the general trend was from geometrical shapes — circles , triangles , quatrefoils — in the earlier period , to curved flamboyant forms in the later years . |
| 15 | This then was the Wolverton Royal Train of the later years of the LMSR and of the early British Rail period . |