Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | No-one was more anti-populist than Charles Leslie , admittedly a rather extreme Tory , but whose Rehearsal was nevertheless a powerful vehicle for the propagation of Tory ideology for the middle years of Anne 's reign . |
| 2 | Colour is even more limited than before , and the palette for the succeeding years is established : some of the paintings are in earth colours , greys and blacks , with a few touches of dull green , while others are in softer grey-blues and buffs . |
| 3 | One of my former patients , whose ex-husband had spent their entire marriage telling her that she was ‘ stupid ’ or ‘ brainless ’ , told me that , although she knew perfectly well that this was not true , by the time she had heard it said every day for the twelve years they had been together she had begun to believe that there must be something in it . |
| 4 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 5 | Thus , the squatter lost — and would have lost even had he been there for the twelve years . |
| 6 | DeRoburt was a key architect of Nauru 's campaign for compensation for the 80 years of phosphate mining which had left 80 per cent of Nauru uninhabitable and incapable of sustaining vegetation . |
| 7 | The data base which will be used is the annual Family Expenditure Survey for the fourteen years 1970-1983 — a total of some 100,000 households . |
| 8 | Since then , for the thirteen years since Kapuscinski 's departure , things have gone badly for the Angolans , and they are still suffering terribly . |
| 9 | But with further tuition in the UK they can move on to full doctor status and for many students the chance to experience life in another country more than makes up for the extra years of study . |
| 10 | Bentley School was built 150 years ago on half an acre of land given by Bishop Sumner of Winchester but its history prior to 1882 is almost non-existent since the log books for the early years have long since been lost . |
| 11 | There were unpaid bills , receipts and invoices , all spread around the large dog-eared ledger that Fred had used for the past-few years . |
| 12 | Or to reverse it , could it be that in the deepening turbulence of our generation God is not only judging a culture which has abandoned him but also , as it were , shaking up the bag and testing the foundations to see if we Christians are as ready as we think for the critical years ahead ? |
| 13 | Would you give them a hundred thousand pounds worth of life cover for a shorter period , looking at them making up the difference perhaps later when they could afford it , or would you give them initially a reduced amount of life cover , say eighty thousand , for the eighteen years ? |
| 14 | ‘ There is no precedent in living memory for the eight years of sustained growth and surging prosperity that Britain has enjoyed with this Conservative government . |
| 15 | Eliot 's life , for the eight years still left to him , now took on a different pattern . |
| 16 | He had been a Housemaster at Cranleigh School , and then Headmaster of Dartford Grammar School in Kent for the eight years before his move to Stockport , and his arrival coincided with the departure of the record number of 69 entrants to University and 18 to Polytechnics and Colleges of Higher Education . |
| 17 | For the eight years of their marriage , the Beetons developed a partnership in which the personal and professional were intertwined . |
| 18 | Conservationists are fighting for tighter controls because new Government figures show that 38,000 acres of open countryside were swallowed up by developers in England , every year , for the 5 years between 1985 and 1990 . |
| 19 | It was a curious mixture of determined work , for many undergraduates had lost five years or more , and of equally certain enjoyment , for the lost years had to be made up in other ways too . |
| 20 | This is the total arrears for the 4 years of Community Charge and includes the Region , Districts and Water Charge . |
| 21 | The total Community Charge arrears at 31 March 1993 as reported to the Council were £148m which represents over 10% of the total liabilities for the 4 years of Community Charge . |
| 22 | I have calculated that my tuition , rent and equipment for the five years of my degree would cost at least £54,500 . |
| 23 | Budd 's tome Zola , written for her , pours out the turmoil and blame for the five years she spent trying to run with a foot in two worlds . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Draw a line graph for the five years and say which year had the highest sales . |
| 26 | It would add 60 plus heavy trucks to the traffic for the five years plus of the construction . |
| 27 | The smallest tank found to be adequate to breed a large pair of cichlids was 36″ × 15″ × 15″ and one author had six of these tanks running with deep bed undergravel filtration with no serious problems for the five years . |
| 28 | The Central Committee believes that the implementation of its programme for the five years can help create the conditions for real peace — reconciliation , harmony , well-being , mutual respect , a sense of community and inter-dependence . |
| 29 | Real income actually fell on average for the five years to September 1978 . |
| 30 | For the five years after the murder of the woman at the Theatre Royal his interventions in my life remained purely educative . |