Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the latter years of the war , Italy had undergone a traumatic experience with battles raging up the length of that country , and emerged with their King Victor Emmanuel resigning in favour of his son , Umberto II , and a succession of coalition governments . |
| 2 | The growth of synfuel industries during the latter years of the twentieth century and the gradual increase of the contribution to oil demand made by these oil shale , tar sand , coal based fuels mean an extension of the life of the IC engine probably well into the mid-21st century . |
| 3 | The authors refer to the carbon steels as ‘ equivalent modern wires ’ That equivalence presumably was established to Rose 's satisfaction during the many years of his research on original strings before marketing his ‘ English Iron ’ It is a pity that this research has not been published . |
| 4 | Second , there are interior sources which have only ‘ fired ’ once during the several years of observations . |
| 5 | The focus of the project is the social and economic history of Aleppo between the latter years of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 and the creation of the United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria in 1958 . |
| 6 | That is still a far cry from the several years of falling output that would be needed to justify the term ‘ depression ’ . |
| 7 | In the latter years of the last century and until the first world war , American massemployment industry and the less agreeable urban occupations drew their workforce extensively from eastern Europe as well as from the labour surplus of American farms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It rose to a peak in the latter years of the nineteenth century , the last survivor of ‘ crisis ’ mortality . |
| 10 | Like the teachers reported by Keddie ( 1971 ) , the authors of the proposals responded to educationalist questions with educationalist answers , and in the latter years of the project , proposals have clearly been influenced by the growing refinement of the guidelines . |
| 11 | The organization was dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism worldwide , and in the latter years of the 1920s Comintern agents began working secretly in the vulnerable , far-flung colonial territories of the capitalist nations to exploit the native discontent . |
| 12 | The Minister of the Interior stated on Feb. 21 , in answer to a parliamentary question , that between 1984 and 1989 the names of 820,000 Bulgarian Moslems and ethnic Turks had been changed in the Bulgarian cultural nationalism campaigns encouraged in the latter years of the communist regime under Todor Zhivkov [ see pp. 33670 ; 34509-10 ; 35520-21 ; 36305 ; 36662 ] . |
| 13 | They take no account of the markets for multimedia delivered into homes through broadband networks , an area of certain substantial growth , particularly in the latter years of the decade . |
| 14 | The year 1475 was to prove crucial for the recovery of cloth exports , as the Treaty of Utrecht with the Hanse and the Treaty of Picquigny with France did much to restore the level of exports in the latter years of Edward IV 's reign ( 94 , pp.26–9 , 34–6 ) . |
| 15 | I guessed we might be in the latter years of her reign — Shakespeare would still be alive ! |
| 16 | Also it was particularly strong in the latter years of the war , particularly in the last 18 months , when many , many first and second tour people were coming back to do a further tour , I have wept many a tear for some first class fellows that pestered me , pestered me beyond belief , writing to me every week . |
| 17 | In North America , in areas where conditions are similar to this country , a survey showed that one per cent of houses were affected by damp , but rot was not found in any of these , and in the few years of experience here none of the faults so far reported are due to this cause . |
| 18 | At the same time , the social benefits in the few years since 1979 have been significant . |
| 19 | Stainless steel , the dominant material in the sink market , could not meet those needs : ‘ Asterite ’ could , and its sales have grown very rapidly in the few years since its introduction . |
| 20 | Extraordinary though such a testimonial may now appear , it was invaluable to Joyce in the few years before the war . |
| 21 | In the few years after 1958 a new word ( and , underlying it , a new fear ) took root : the meritocracy . |
| 22 | British waterways launched a competition to find the family which has put in the most years of work in a dock . |
| 23 | It also has access to the many years of experience on domestic credit underwriting in Holland from its parent company . |
| 24 | By the latter years of the war , the experience of government direction and the evident need to recompense the sacrifices of the home population encouraged the desire to carry wartime controls into lasting social reform and post-war ‘ reconstruction ’ . |
| 25 | However , by the latter years of the century , both Yarmouth and Bristol had declined , and London was taking over 71 per cent of the imports . |