Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] years [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 People are living longer , and costing the state more in the final years of their lives .
2 In the final years of his life Hervey achieved high office in the church .
3 This was a formidable programme for a king whose father had been defeated and captured by the English only eight years earlier , and who had agreed to a treaty which conceded a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward III ; but in the sixteen years of his reign Charles achieved each one of these objects except the last , and even though he did not attack and destroy England , French and Castilian naval raids along the south coast induced a sense of panic and defensiveness unknown in England since the very earliest months of the war .
4 The monk Ippen ( 1239 to 1289 ) travelled all over Japan in the sixteen years before his death , and his journeys , his life and ideas ( he was also the founder of an Amida-Buddhist school ) were documented by one of his brothers in the twelve illustrated scrolls completed in 1299 .
5 In the five years since its introduction , the plan has been accused of being geared toward extracting the optimum " harvest " from remaining forests and of lacking consideration towards forest peoples .
6 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 .
7 In the 18 years after its introduction ( 1817–35 ) there were 42 explosions and 538 deaths .
8 In particular , since the socialisation undergone by a human being in the early years of its life will obviously be of crucial influence in affecting the attitudes and behaviour of the social adult , then the family , as the first human group an individual in any society usually belongs to , is clearly a socialising agency of major importance .
9 In the early years of its life , Newton 's gravitational theory was falsified by observations of the moon 's orbit .
10 With the latter , the payments are concentrated in the early years of their lives , while with the former , they are concentrated in the later years .
11 Thus his writings give the opposite impression to those of the earlier moralists like Salvian , and even of that conveyed by Paulinus of Pella , a member of the senatorial aristocracy who collaborated with the Visigoths in the early years of their settlement in Aquitaine , but eventually lost the majority of his property , as he relates in his autobiographical poem , the Eucharisticon .
12 In the early years of her reign Elizabeth was faced with an urgent crisis on her northern border , and in 1562–4 she pursued an expensive adventure into France .
13 Though Ivan claimed success with women , despite or because of his natural handicaps , and Liz herself , though she had not slept with him , had on one occasion in the early years of her marriage to Charles found herself , to her own surprise , sitting on a table in a flat in Belsize Park Gardens with Ivan 's hand inside her bra .
14 Doubts of the sincerity of her much-advertised desire for reform were already being voiced in the early years of her reign .
15 Since her election in 1986 , President Corazon Aquino had maintained a deliberately ambiguous stance over the bases ; although in the early years of her term she suggested some opposition to the US presence , this position had been weakened when US aircraft from the bases had played an essential role in Aquino 's defeat of a serious right-wing military coup attempt in December 1989 [ see pp. 37120-21 ] .
16 A notable change occurred in the criticism of Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the early years of her career .
17 Read the quest of Francis of Assisi as a young man , or the search of Ignatius of Loyola in the early years of his conversion .
18 In the early years of his premiership he was very sharp , though , as Iain Macleod recalled , ‘ he could be maddeningly discursive — it was nothing to reach a decision on an enquiry into rating via the Greek Wars and Parnell ’ .
19 Given the growth in his ordinary income and the difficulty of estimating its size in the early years of his reign , it would not be very useful to work out an average of the total revenue over the whole reign .
20 But in the early years of his editorship he had also wanted to achieve something quite different from other contemporary periodicals — he was trying to express , if not create , a genuinely European consciousness which would subvert the characteristically insular nature of English cultural life .
21 But already in the early years of his pontificate , before he was master of the enlarged Papal State from Radicofani in the north to Ceprano in the south , mercenaries had been used in the campaign against Markward of Anweiler , who was fighting the imperial cause in Italy between 1199 and 1201 ; five hundred at one time and possibly as many as 2000 .
22 Important figures from within the ‘ national-conservative ’ élites who later played prominent roles in resistance to Nazism — such as Ernst von Weizsäcker in the bureaucracy , Carl Goerdeler in the economy , and Henning von Tresckow in the military — were all prepared to distance Hitler in the early years from their mounting criticism of the radicals in the Movement .
23 I guessed we might be in the latter years of her reign — Shakespeare would still be alive !
24 In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military .
25 This was the first time in the 47 years of its history that the UN had met at the top level .
26 Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace .
27 In the earliest years of their missionary efforts Dr Tord writes :
28 In the two years before its death , advertising volume dropped by a quarter and circulation by about 10 per cent ( Clark , 1981 , p. 12 ) .
29 Indeed , as C. S. L. Davies has suggested , the arrogance with which he treated his fellow-councillors in the two years before his fall in October 1549 may owe a lot to his outstanding success at Pinkie , when he may have believed that he was about to achieve what some of the greatest of English kings had failed to do .
30 In the first years of their married life , Diana made several suicide bids and numerous threats .
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