Example sentences of "[art] years [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is estimated that in the years 1896–1913 German landholdings declined by over 98,000 hectares , 20,000 of which were in and around Danzig . |
| 2 | Over the years many sailing ships were wrecked on the rocky shores of Madeira , driven there by foul weather . |
| 3 | Mine comes from peaty moorland and the pH is too low with the result that over the years copper pipework corrodes in places , especially at low points . |
| 4 | We must expect , however , that over the years total production from a given turtle population will produce males or females about equally . |
| 5 | In 1990 we held a benefit which raised DM 200,000 for the Kupferstichkabinett in Dresden , whose director , Werner Schmidt , had over the years collected art that was forbidden in the former DDR . |
| 6 | Volume II , spanning the years 1922–44 will appear next year . |
| 7 | By far the largest item of expenditure , namely the EAGGF ( Guarantee Section ) , grew by 75 per cent between 1983 and 1988 , and in each of the years actual expenditure exceeded the estimates . |
| 8 | In the years 1860–1913 German coal production leapt from a mere 17 million tons to 277 million tons . |
| 9 | The funding of capital expenditure is usually spread over the years that benefit will accrue . |
| 10 | If the years 1829–49 show Beecroft 's genius for winning the friendship and respect of Africans , the period 1849–54 reveals him as a forceful interventionist , determined to establish British paramountcy over what was eventually destined to become the colony of Nigeria . |
| 11 | I asked him whether I was right in supposing that over the years British music had been influenced much more by the Continent than vice-versa . |
| 12 | Over the years indiscriminate dumping has resulted in a large number of environmentally dangerous sites that are leaking toxic and hazardous chemicals . |
| 13 | Over the years numerous government directives have gradually eroded the community element until we became what was essentially a Government Training Centre — except that our staff were paid about £2,000 per year less than staff in GTCs . |
| 14 | It must also be presumed that gradually over the years some kind of folklore will develop , a collective consensus about how to apply the criteria to the actual written work to be examined , whether as course-work or examination scripts . |