Example sentences of "and [adv] [prep] the [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 The world has changed radically since the admission of individuals such as Marx and vastly in the 40 years since the 1951 convention was drawn up .
2 This process of learning takes place more rapidly and intensely during the early years of childhood than in later life .
3 And so for the next year Anne lived in Charlottetown , and went to college every day .
4 His whole body spoke a subtle language of command ; something that had developed quite naturally and unconsciously during the long years of his rule .
5 They rapidly erected the Clifton ironworks near Glasgow and early in the following year were producing some 600 tons of finished malleable iron products per month .
6 The move towards this more complex kind of painting reaches a climax in the still lifes that Braque painted late in 1909 and early in the following year , for example Violon et Cruche and Violin and Palette .
7 In 1705 he wrote that he doubted whether he would see the winter through and early in the next year he died , leaving a last , unfinished letter to his young friend .
8 It has always been noticed that information technology skills , of which we shall need more and more in the coming years , have tended to lag behind the demand for those skills .
9 Do not give the child eggs , fish , chocolate , wheat , oranges , peanuts or other nuts for at least the first six months , and preferably for the first year of life .
10 Yet this is twice they 've been here — first last Spring , and now for the New Year party . ’
11 Then it got quite boring , and it was really hard work , and now after the first year 's finished I 'm glad we thought of that because I 've done quite well .
12 The chairman thanked all those who had worked hard and tirelessly over the last year for the benefit of the club and its members .
13 In practice , however , and particularly for the first years , what happened in labs was strictly controlled by the department .
14 One thing that marks the Carpenters out is their uncanny fondness for incorporating the names of distaff families into their own ; from the early days of the 18th century we can spot the Frome and Rodden Carpenters by their use of the name ‘ Thynn ’ as a first or second Christian name for boys , and even in the middle years of the 19th century a branch of the family in London called one son Starmer Thynne Carpenter .
15 During the early twentieth century and increasingly during the inter-war years the ideology of motherhood was reinforced legislatively by the marriage bar , which was applied chiefly to professional women and which served firmly to delineate the world of married women from that of men at a time when it was becoming widely acceptable for single middle class girls and women to go out to work .
16 you know maybe I am the sort of person they 're looking for who 's already done a little bit of surveying erm to join as a dogsbody and then over the two years or four years however long it does take erm you know slowly presumably you just get given more responsibilities .
17 In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were .
18 Now there was a theory in the south of England , that when one retired , for the first year , you dumped most of your lump sum into premium bonds on the hope of a big win , and then after the first year you invested it , you see , having taken the big win .
19 And then in the clinical years , the disillusion , the suffering , the unfairness , the dying , the inevitability of it all .
20 Some sort of fire prevention had been in existence , for a number of hydrants were placed around the village and earlier in the same year extra hydrants were provided and the fire appliance committee was formed .
21 True , the number of stage coaches increased significantly as the century progressed and became even more numerous and faster in the early years of the nineteenth century , but their number hardly kept pace with a rising population .
22 We want them improved for the coming year and certainly by the first year of the council tax .
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