Example sentences of "was [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | This huge monumental arch was erected in the early years of the nineteenth century to celebrate the victories of Napoleon , although it was swiftly re-dedicated to Peace when the Austrians returned . |
| 2 | The impersonal and durable character of these rights was highlighted during the last years of Louis VII 's reign , in the use in charters of the phrase corona regni ( the crown of the kingdom ) , a phrase which marked out royal rights from princely by asserting their value to the kingdom as a whole . |
| 3 | The ruin of the German economy which was completed by the Thirty Years War also brought the ruin of the Fuggers . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the coastline 's area is zero , so neither a one-dimensional nor a two-dimensional picture is appropriate , and in fact the way in which the length increases with resolution suggests a dimension D of about 1.2 The mathematics of sets of points with fractional dimensionality was developed in the early years of this century , but associated geometric objects were considered as ‘ pathological ’ and not corresponding to anything in Nature , Mandelbrot 's massive and single-minded achievement has been to convert this abstract formalism into a flourishing branch of applied mathematics , in three ways . |
| 5 | The main oppidum or tribal centre of the Votadini was excavated in the early years of this century on Traprain Law , a steep volcanic upthrust from the East Lothian plain . |
| 6 | Debt that was amassed during the go-go years of the 1980s remains high while confidence remains low . |
| 7 | In that year , according to a report from the Treasury and Civil Service Select Committee , of the 75,210 FIS recipients , only 15,000 , or 20 per cent , were estimated to be above the tax threshold when FIS was claimed in the previous year ( Treasury and Civil Service Committee , The Structure of Personal Income , Taxation and Income Support , House of Commons Paper 2021 , HMSO 1982 , table 11 , p. 15 ) . |
| 8 | And I am almost certain that each one was included in the following year 's NIBA team . |
| 9 | A similar paragraph was contained in the subsequent year 's report , but otherwise no information was given to council members about the deals . |
| 10 | Visited by 1,617,556 people , the house was exhibited during the first year of the Wembley Exhibition between April and November 1924 . |
| 11 | The recording was made during the darkest years of the Depression and reduced strings were used ; this tells at the opening of the finale but is hardly noticeable elsewhere . |
| 12 | Roman medallions were made in small quantities and so the die would be likely to survive , while at Dalisandos no coinage was made in the intervening years . |
| 13 | Another attempt was made in the following year between July 13 and 27 and was completely successful . |
| 14 | With the exception of the banqueting hall it was built in the early years of this century by the Edwardian architect Walter Godfrey . |
| 15 | The types of problem on which advice and assistance was sought during the past year is surprisingly , and perhaps regrettably , consistent with the experience of previous years … people who are eligible for advice and assistance are still accustomed to consult solicitors for a comparatively narrow range of problems . ’ |
| 16 | Two 110mph trains in each direction were introduced from May 1984 and the entire service was upgraded in the following year . |
| 17 | There is no question that the electricity was used during the financial year and yet the cost of the electricity is not shown until the next financial year . |
| 18 | In the end , the danger of Iranian air raids meant that the conference was postponed until the following year and transferred to New Delhi . |
| 19 | The Oxford Group was founded in the early years of the century by Frank Buchman , a Lutheran Minister , whose controversial evangelistic movement was based on the four principles of Absolute Honesty , Absolute Purity , Absolute Unselfishness and Absolute Love . |
| 20 | The Feoda 's apparently innovative character makes the fact that it was produced in the same year as the Norman inquest into knights ' fees seem more than simply coincidental . |
| 21 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 22 | Clerical taxes levied by the king throughout his reign totalled some £300,000 of which , again , almost a third was raised in the four years 1294–7 . |
| 23 | In other words , Abingdon Weir Slalom was blessed for the second year running with good weather and moving water . |
| 24 | The late nineteenth century saw the emergence of a model of human origins based very much on Haeckel 's linear progressionism , but this was replaced in the early years of the twentieth century by a theory more in tune with the new paleontology . |
| 25 | A full service was introduced in the following year after various problems with the new units had been resolved . |
| 26 | This was over 500 fewer opioid users than was found during the previous year 's survey of ten agencies , and there is still a reduction in numbers of 375 if we compare the figures obtained from the five agencies contacted in both surveys . |
| 27 | The stage was set for the following year when Christie 's New York offered the now famous ‘ Egyptian ’ clock , estimated at $200,000–300,000 . |
| 28 | I believe that the spending levels that we are now seeing , through the new scheme that I announced in the summer , vindicate the judgment I made because the £17 million that was spent in the two years of the initial scheme represents an average spend of £8.5 million . |
| 29 | Many parties were expected to take up the offer , although Fernando Belaúnde Terry , a former President and leader of the Popular Action ( AP ) party , stated that unless the holding municipal elections was restored to the current year [ see below ] , the AP would not participate in any talks . |
| 30 | Figure 4.7 shows how the formula-based money was distributed in the first year of the scheme . |