Example sentences of "[art] years of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Second , an understanding of doubt helps us to prepare for the years of testing which , I think , are to come .
2 She had liked him in those days and some of that liking still remained , resented , only half-acknowledged , but bound up with memories of sunlit walks in Port Meadow , luncheon and laughter in Hugo 's rooms , with the years of hope and promise .
3 The Chinese even suggested to Kissinger during the years of backdoor diplomacy before Nixon 's visit to Peking in 1971 that his channel to Peking via Bucharest was far from secure : Ceauşescu kept Brezhnev informed .
4 The authority of the clergy had been second to none during the years of persecution and this appears to have strengthened as a direct result of Roman centralization from the 1850s onwards .
5 The Years of retreat 1969–1879
6 The years of slavery are in some measure paid for by the clothes and jewellery heaped upon them by the Egyptians , now only too anxious to see them go .
7 In reality , it is this power , rather than any other provision , that has been vital to the police in their control over the years of pickets , protesters , and political demonstrators .
8 After , after the years of hardship and loss and then ev everything came as a relief , course we were still at war with the Japanese and people were still in Burma , our soldiers were still in Burma fighting the Japanese , but having said that the main issue was over and it was n't long after the Americans dropped the atomic bomb and of course , I always thought they had to really or else the Japanese would still be fighting now the er they had special dances in the Town Hall for the V E Day and the Americans who did a a jitterbug contest and er I always remember my friend and his sister , who was English , they actually won it against the Yanks he er
9 She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away .
10 The string that had once been fastened lightly round her toe had tightened during the years of marriage , slowly tightened into a leash .
11 But by the 17805 and 17905 — the years of Wordsworth 's youth — the new advances in techniques of production began to provoke widespread comment .
12 During the years of arms embargo , the South Africans had to develop their own arms industry .
13 Er , certainly in the last well , all the time I 've been involved in developing these schemes , twenty seven twenty eight years now , we 've had a gradual increase over the years of involvement in the public , with the public and we 've been criticized where we have n't done so .
14 What we think of as us has been fashioned by the years of work .
15 The years of work and attention were bearing fruit now , and suddenly this stroke of luck with Betty .
16 The same study also corroborated the finding of other studies that the status of the college attended , apart from the years of attendance , was closely related to future earnings .
17 Bereiter 's mention of syntax provides a timely cue for looking at another area of research into writing development which , it was hoped , would give us clear indicators of development through the years of schooling .
18 The taxpayer 's profits from its sub-licensing transactions for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 were assessed to profits tax under section 14 of the Inland Revenue Ordinance as profits arising in or derived from Hong Kong within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Ordinance .
19 and Kaplan J. ) [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 given on 15 March 1991 allowing an appeal by the taxpayer , HK-TVB International Ltd. , from the order of Godfrey J. made on 9 April 1990 in the High Court whereby he had allowed an appeal by the commissioner by way of case stated from the decision of the Board of Review that the relevant profits for the years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 inclusive did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong .
20 The question of law for the opinion of the High Court stated by the Board of Review was whether , on the facts agreed and proved , the relevant profits for the years of assessment in question did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong from a trade or business carried on by the taxpayer in Hong Kong .
21 Income was accumulated and capital payments were made to six beneficiaries between the years of assessment 1962/63 and 1968/69 .
22 During the years of South Africa 's isolation from the world community and its suspension from the ILO , hybrid labour legislation was passed by the South African parliament which may or may not conform to the minimum standards for the protection of workers laid down in various ILO conventions .
23 Significantly higher concentrations of laminin were found in patients whose alcohol intake was higher than 100 g/day compared with those with a lower intake ( p=0.03 ) , although there was no significant correlation between laminin concentrations and the amount ingested or with the years of ingestion .
24 Depression in the epoch of the absolutist restoration after 1814 was both to convert the commercial and industrial interests to liberalism and to destroy the confidence of the years of prosperity , cut short by the loss of the American market and the dislocations of the war of 1808–14 .
25 Returning to the fate of the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts , there are ways to help it to survive , even if they have long been forgotten during the years of subordination to its well-cushioned Soviet existence .
26 Public transport in the two halves of the city grew apart in the years of division .
27 One effect of the years of terrorism had been to abolish night in the vicinity of prisons , and the scene outside was bleakly bright .
28 During the years of Baldwin 's premierships she appeared a slightly ridiculous figure to the sophisticated young .
29 Throughout the years of Union Scotland , unlike Wales , has acquired separate legislation throughout domestic matters .
30 However , the Korean War stimulated the German economy , as it did the rest of Western Europe , and there was much unrealised potential after the years of occupation .
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