Example sentences of "[prep] the [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd accept all that , just as I accepted her usually sharp-edged attitude to me during the nearly two years of our association . |
| 2 | In France during the most critical years of the Spanish Succession war in 1704–8 and 1712 , one in six of the male population was serving in the army or the militia ; and in the period 1700–63 about two million men were enrolled for military service there ( though some 300,000 of these were foreigners ) . |
| 3 | The outbreak of war naturally marked the end of the collaboration of Picasso and Braque , but the unprecedented closeness of their artistic careers over the preceding years makes it impossible to separate completely the contribution made by each to Cubism during the most vital years of its development . |
| 4 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 5 | Similarly a young Russian diplomat , serving in a junior post in London during the very first years of the twentieth century , found that the embassy possessed only one typewriter , and that so old that it was difficult to use . |
| 6 | But in more robust days , you would have been more likely to come upon a coven up there , since the summit of La Rhune was one of several places in the Basque lands where witches were held to convene during the very ugly years of persecution early in the seventeenth century — then it was , according to the local inquisitors , that English and Scottish travellers arriving by sea in Bordeaux saw veritable armies of devils making their way towards south-western France . |
| 7 | Chairman of selectors Ted Dexter was at Lilleshall to run his eye over final preparations and said : ‘ We have had one of the most successful years at international level that we have enjoyed in recent times , but the coming tour represents quite a different challenge to the ones our players have had before . ’ |
| 8 | Khomeini seemed then only a very small voice in the wilderness , Bit in retrospect , the party at Persepolis can be seen to symbolize the end of the most successful years of the Shahs reign . |
| 9 | Not that this can not be one of the most achievement-full years of your life — for indeed it can . |
| 10 | According to Chairman Richard Guy , 1992 has been one of the most difficult years faced by Gloucester-based Sherwood Computer Services Plc . |
| 11 | One Sunderland councillor , Stuart Deacon , who grew up near Roker Park , said last night the win marked another achievement in one of the most remarkable years in Wearside 's history . |
| 12 | CANCER — THIS could be one of the most important years in many Cancerians ' lives . |
| 13 | In many respects this was a return to the position of the very last years of the fourth century ; the establishment of arian kingdoms on Gallic soil had removed from the catholic bishops sole authority over the definition of the Christian community , and it was only the conversion of Clovis and the expansion of the Frankish kingdom which gave the ecclesiastical hierarchy the authority once more to define the Christian life for all the members of the State . |
| 14 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 15 | Younger people are on average thirteen times as likely to be assaulted as people in the over 45 years of age category . |
| 16 | Although occupational pension schemes are increasingly common , levels of payment are often linked to earnings in the most recent years of work . |
| 17 | It took much restoration , in the remarkably enlightened years in the middle of the last century when conservation took hold in France , to give the cathedral of Lescar its present air of authenticity . |
| 18 | In the relatively prosperous years of the late nineteenth century Latin American intellectuals were primarily concerned not with the economic progress of their nations , but with their development away from a state of ‘ barbarism ’ to one of ’ civilisation' along European lines . |
| 19 | The people most affected by AIDS are those in the highly productive years of life . |
| 20 | In the very early years , people were really exploring ; then came the early botanists who identified what they saw and made lists ; later came the ecologists who related plants to their environment ; by the 1980s conservation of the flora came to the fore . |
| 21 | Could you give me some idea of what these might be in the very early years perhaps ? |
| 22 | Could you give me some idea of what these might be in the very early years perhaps ? |
| 23 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
| 24 | Each year the number of working days lost will exceed , by a significant margin , those lost by strikes even in the very worst years of industrial unrest . |
| 25 | To become a member during that brief period demanded a lower level of commitment than in the more repressive years which preceded and followed it , and intelligenty members were now heavily outnumbered . |
| 26 | In the more normal years after 1870 annual mortality from disease was about one per cent . |
| 27 | This remained steady at 25,000 km. in 1920 , but actually dropped in the more prosperous years after 1922 to 23,100 in 1924 . |
| 28 | Well , I was interested , which wo n't surprise you , and tried it on and off , mostly off , for the moments of stress over the momentously stressful years . |
| 29 | If it is largely the public-school spirit which has made England great in the past , any means by which a similar spirit may be fostered in the boys who leave the elementary schools at the very age when the sons of the monied classes are entering on the most valuable years of their school career , is of incalculable importance . |
| 30 | So we moved round every three or at the most four years , and er we we 've been up in Scotland and er Yorkshire , Lancashire , and down East Anglia . |