Example sentences of "[verb] the [num ord] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rowbotham says the third years have made the Cherry Orchard look like a cotton-wool factory . " |
| 2 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 3 | Despite the increasing difficulties which Edward faced in financing his wars in Scotland , the parliaments of these years are free of the political and constitutional arguments which had characterized the last years of Edward I 's reign . |
| 4 | As Denton has shown , Winchelsey had used Clericis Laicos tactically to keep the king at bay while evading the full implications of that bull — that the pope alone could give consent ; Edward spent the last years of his reign dexterously reversing this and nullifying the commitments which appeared to have been extracted from him by the Confirmation of the Charters in 1297 . |
| 5 | However , the most notable feature of these accounts is not so much their dating , as the apparent belief in St Augustine 's , where Goscelin spent the last years of his life , that Cnut visited them both on the way to and from Rome . |
| 6 | as er , as , as , as doing something erm but erm yeah it 's certainly possible to er to do the first years . |
| 7 | As we approach the last years of the 20th century , environmental damage to the earth , air and water threaten the basic resources on which we depend . ’ |
| 8 | The battles between Fascists and the Left which began in 1934 looked superficially like those which had marked the last years of the Weimar republic . |
| 9 | With very few exceptions , judges are required to be selected from amongst practising barristers and it is difficult for anyone without a private income to survive the first years of practice . |
| 10 | Jane also felt she was not really in a position to refuse : ‘ I was missing the fifth years , which meant I had lots of ‘ free time ’ , so I was in a position where really I could n't refuse to do it . ’ |
| 11 | But there was also an exhilaration in the atmosphere of conspiracy and violence which characterised the last years of his childhood . |