Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Am I dreaming or is this the Orient Express of the inter-war years ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No Arlott journey of the middle years was without a chart of secondhand bookshops , antiquarian caves . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Regrettably , a House of Lords decision in the early years of this century made it clear that wrongful dismissal compensation will not cover either : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
| 11 | His place was taken by Sir Herbert Samuel , Postmaster General during the first years of the King 's reign . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Example 1 is the hook riff from a well known Huey Lewis tune from a few years back . |
| 15 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |