Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] years [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair . |
| 2 | In the early years I spent every Sunday bashing rhododendrons — it was like being a nineteenth-century explorer . |
| 3 | In the intervening years I allowed myself to be gradually undermined and finally succeeded in losing most outward traces of my cultural identity . |
| 4 | Since the literary works to which Ken devoted himself in the long years which followed his brief episcopate were largely unremarkable and unread , the waste of his inspired and inspiring vocation as a bishop has appeared both to contemporary and subsequent critics exasperating ; for his scruples about swearing the oath of allegiance to William and Mary were so nearly overcome by his friends that he asked them not to continue their arguments lest he succumb . |
| 5 | In the following years he began to propound diffusionism , the doctrine that cultural traits were not independently invented but carried from one area to another . |
| 6 | In the following years he took the diploma of ARCS and B.Sc. |
| 7 | But while the advocacy of many of these proposals drew upon long-term developments in social and political thought , it was the economic situation in the inter-war years which forced many to address the question of how the endemic problems of overcapacity in basic industries , structural unemployment and the evident failure of laissez-faire to preserve national prosperity could be overcome . |
| 8 | If this elevation to the highest level reflected John 's standing with his fellow magnates , in the ensuing years he gained and retained the confidence of the king . |