Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | During its period of construction , and for the five years until its dramatic destruction , it drew crowds of curious sightseers to the Rame Peninsular and to every other viewpoint . |
2 | His wife died in 1902 and for the twenty years of his retirement he lived in hotels . |
3 | It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones . |
4 | It was a Stavanger tradition to finance their ships by careful management and frugal living for themselves , and through the difficult years between the wars , the firm had never had an overdraft . |
5 | Macmillan showered political honours on his backbenchers like confetti , and during the thirteen years of Conservative government which ended in 1964 over two hundred MPs , one third of all those who sat on the Tory benches , were rewarded with some sort of gong . |
6 | Under the legislation this was not in fact required ( only the Boards as a whole were required to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ ) , but Citrine and his senior colleagues believed that it was a desirable principle that each Board should break even , and within a few years of nationalisation this was also tacitly accepted by the Boards . |
7 | In the 1890s there was a strong Methodist presence in Edenderry and in the early years of the twentieth century the row of houses running from Watson Street to Mr Hoy 's butcher 's shop was known as ‘ Methodist Row ’ . |
8 | The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater . |
9 | Under Edward I and Edward II , and in the early years of Edward III , grants of money had generally been made with reluctance , and had been accompanied by many complaints about the conduct of royal financial officials . |
10 | Although a small Privy Council is different from an informal inner ring , the new body does not seem entirely original , for it had precedents in the fifteenth century and in the early years of Henry VIII . |
11 | Those who have some knowledge of railway history will recall what was known in the last century and in the early years of this century as ’ the railway interest ’ . |
12 | In the nineteenth century , and in the early years of the twentieth century , there was a high output of geological publication in the form of irregular monographic serials ( Menard 142 ) . |
13 | In the nineteenth century , and in the early years of the twentieth century , there was a high output of geological publication in the form of irregular monographic serials ( Menard ) . |
14 | The last years of Henry VII had been a prosperous period for the port — the average annual sum paid in customs dues from 1504 to 1509 was over £10,000 , and in the early years of Henry VIII a group of merchants had maintained voyages to Brazil . |
15 | The irregularity of his semi-bigamous relationship with Ælfgifu of Northampton ( see Chapter 4 ) and levy of £82,500 in 1018 did not fulfil the Christian king 's duty to tax his people lightly and set them a good example , and in the early years of the reign many churchmen doubtless feared the worst . |
16 | Like the teachers reported by Keddie ( 1971 ) , the authors of the proposals responded to educationalist questions with educationalist answers , and in the latter years of the project , proposals have clearly been influenced by the growing refinement of the guidelines . |
17 | The organization was dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism worldwide , and in the latter years of the 1920s Comintern agents began working secretly in the vulnerable , far-flung colonial territories of the capitalist nations to exploit the native discontent . |
18 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
19 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
20 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
21 | In North America , in areas where conditions are similar to this country , a survey showed that one per cent of houses were affected by damp , but rot was not found in any of these , and in the few years of experience here none of the faults so far reported are due to this cause . |
22 | By the late 1560's work was well in hand up at Keswick and in the formative years of the society the northern mining concentrated itself amongst the mountains and valleys around Keswick . |
23 | The old man was a cripple and in the last years of his life . |
24 | A young man in his late teens by the time of the council of Whitby and the son of the reigning king in Bernicia by Eanflaed , daughter of Eadwine , Ecgfrith was almost certainly in a position to attract support not only among the Bernicians but also among the Deirans in the territory of Ealhfrith , and in the last years of his reign Oswiu did make him sub-king of Deira . |
25 | Pollen was also vice-president of the council of the Federation of British Industries , chairman of the British Commonwealth Union , and in the last years of his life took an active role in the development of English Catholicism as chairman of the Tablet . |
26 | The Cluthas could carry 360 passengers , and in the 60 years from the turn of the century the entire population of Glasgow must have moved back and forwards across the Clyde annually without ever getting its collective feet wet . |
27 | The average number of such combined roles , across all three phases and over the four years in question , was just over three . |
28 | During the trial , the mean fibre score in the diet group rose to 33.6 and over the three years for which reliable results are available , compliance in taking the high fibre diets seemed good with very little ‘ drift ’ in mean values that ranged from a minimum of mean ( SEM ) 31.0 ( 3.7 points ) at 36 months to a maximum of 325.5 ( 2.2 ) at 12 months . |
29 | The use of terms such as ‘ social evil ’ and the ‘ social diseases ’ suggests a widespread fear of the social implications of prostitution , and by the middle years of the century this fear was becoming part of a general social anxiety . |
30 | Because of rising costs and the import of cheap foreign lead in the late 1800s , the market collapsed and by the early years of this century the mines had all closed . |