Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 2 | Roderick et al report that both the study of the Joint Matriculation Board ( JMB ) candidates who entered Sheffield University in the three years between 1975 to 1977 , and the study involving 17 English Universities , demonstrate that there is an exceptionally high dropout rate and failure rate in relation to unqualified mature students . |
| 3 | Am I dreaming or is this the Orient Express of the inter-war years ? |
| 4 | In 1855 Alexander had appointed his friend General V. I. Nazimov ( the reactionary who had clamped down on Moscow University in the last years of Nicholas I ) to the Governor-Generalship of the three provinces at issue . |
| 5 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 6 | No Arlott journey of the middle years was without a chart of secondhand bookshops , antiquarian caves . |
| 7 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 8 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 9 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 10 | Of all the consequences of the Battle of Gumbinnen , the most significant was the appointment of Hindenburg and Ludendorff to command , for they quickly formed a superlative military team , for a time as successful as that of Marlborough and Prince Eugene in the early years of the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | The enormous Sunday circulations of the post-war years meant that even without owning more than one paper , the News of the World had the equal largest market share in 1947 . |
| 12 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 13 | So despite the widespread acceptance of social science in the United States by the early years of the twentieth century , it is possible to produce a sizeable list of American sociologists , all eminent figures in the history of the discipline , who seldom undertook on their own account , systematic data collection of any kind . |
| 14 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |
| 15 | An unknown writer observing at the restoration work of 1887 says of the nave , the walls were found to be covered with old surface paintings , and Fielding in his Memories of Malling , writes , " In Halling Church until a few years ago existed the uncouth painting over the chancel arch , variously described as the tale of the unfaithful wife and the emblematic representation of the seven deadly sins . |
| 16 | Regrettably , a House of Lords decision in the early years of this century made it clear that wrongful dismissal compensation will not cover either : |
| 17 | This comment may have drawn attention to Mary Leapor for a few years . |
| 18 | It was not the existence of the risk which mattered , so much as ( a ) the degree to which it enhanced the prejudice already created by the great publicity which all these matters had attracted in Hong Kong during the preceding years , and ( b ) the degree to which this additional risk could be neutralised by the trial judge when the B.M.F.L. prosecution eventually arrived at a hearing : see Reg. v. Kray ( 1969 ) 53 Cr.App.R. 412 . |
| 19 | The Beveridge reforms of the post-war years laid out a framework for the welfare state based on the assumption that women should be and wanted to be , first and foremost , wives and mothers . |
| 20 | The limited dispersal of authority that accompanied the decline of Bakufu control in the closing years of Tokugawa rule was ruthlessly reversed by the centralizing policies of the Meiji regime after 1868 . |
| 21 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 22 | The Jews along with the Huguenots were welcomed with open arms by Friedrich Wilhelm after the Thirty Years War in the hope of achieving rapid economic growth on the cinders of destruction . |
| 23 | His place was taken by Sir Herbert Samuel , Postmaster General during the first years of the King 's reign . |
| 24 | Photogravure was much in use during the Photo-Secession period in the early years of the 20th century — a time of intense seriousness about photography as a vehicle of genuine graphic art and of intense interest in Japanese aesthetics . |
| 25 | A survey of thirty paintings and thirty-five pastels and charcoal drawings created by Bill Jacklin in the seven years since he moved to New York in autumn 1985 opens at the Museum of Modern Art , Oxford , this month ( until 10 January 1993 ) . |
| 26 | The Middlesex secretary of the Edwardian years , who was also secretary of the MCC , Sir Francis Lacey , mixed a curt politeness with public condescension in his treatment of the professional staff . |
| 27 | Le Tabou … . hangout for the jeunesse doree in St-Germain-des Pres in the post-war years |
| 28 | Example 1 is the hook riff from a well known Huey Lewis tune from a few years back . |
| 29 | Kentish archers were considered among the finest in the country and it is not unlikely that archers from Halling were present with Lord Cobham during the Hundred Years War and also at Agincourt , where the archers of Kent were in the fore front and played a major part in the defeat of the French Cavalry . |
| 30 | ‘ PhD STUDENTS will flock to Sri Lanka in a few years ’ time and write learned theses on the inappropriateness of high technology aid for poor countries ’ , predicts a Sri Lankan lawyer , Gamini Iriyagolle , a specialist on the Mahaweli Programme , one of the world 's biggest development schemes under way anywhere . |