Example sentences of "[art] [adj] years [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the confusion of the adolescent years of change would be brought into a proper perspective . |
| 2 | Since Mrs Thatcher 's first victory in 1979 , the country had enjoyed ‘ 13 of the finest years in history ’ . |
| 3 | The apparent casualness of the alliance , and the stormy passages of their wartime life in Berlin , did not alter the resolve with which Margaret Joyce was to stand by her difficult husband in the most onerous and tragic phases of the eight years of life which remained to him . |
| 4 | ‘ People coming and going ’ were to provide Bischof 's subject matter in the eight years of life that remained to him after his meeting with Rosellina ; people in camps , people displaced by the Second World War and then by the regional wars that succeeded it , from Eastern Europe to Indochina , and from Scandinavia to Japan . |
| 5 | Also in demand for private and company charter hire such as conference and product launches , the one-time roadside diner and spring company board room accumulated some 400,000 miles in the eight years of operation since their ‘ second coming ’ in 1982 . |
| 6 | THE COMMISSION of Investigation wishes to pay homage to you , in particular for your support to the Chadian people oppressed during the eight years of dictatorship of Hissein Habre . |
| 7 | During the eight years of war against Iran , President Hussein made his power absolute by clamping tight personal control on the army , the Baath party and the ubiquitous mukhabarat , the secret police . |
| 8 | 1991 in many respects has been one of the toughest years in Hygiene but despite that we will have achieved our budgeted target and increased our profit by 40% over 1990 — a truly excellent performance ! |
| 9 | By contrast , those patients with severe comorbid conditions had a consistently high mortality during the 2 years after discharge : 60% were alive after 12 months and only 30% after 24 months . |
| 10 | Adjustment for these two characteristics revealed no strong relation between age and 2-year mortality : compared with the 18–44 year age group , there was no significantly higher mortality in the 45–64 year ( RR=0.84 , 95% CI 0.34 to 2.09 ) , the 65–74 year ( RR=1.28 , 95% CI 0.50 to 3.32 ) , and the 75–92 year ( RR=1.99 , 95% CI 0.72 to 5.46 ) ( overall p=0.4 ) age group during the 2 years after discharge . |
| 11 | Patients 75 years of age and older were more likely to die over the 2 years after discharge than patients between 18 and 44 years of age , but this difference did not reach statistical significance . |
| 12 | The median years for return to work for the next cohort , who had their first birth between 1975 and 1979 , is estimated to be only 3.7 years . |
| 13 | It was another two years before I was able to break through the painful years of silence and begin the fragile , tentative process of making myself whole again . |
| 14 | During the 1980s , the burgeoning years of contentment , there was large continuing deficit in the US federal budget . |
| 15 | Moreover , a collective managerial guilt was at work , attempting to ‘ compensate for the forty years of Francoism suffered by the mass of the workforce ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now , through the just-introduced ‘ interest-maintenance reserve ’ , they must spread profits equally over the remaining years to maturity of the traded bond . |
| 18 | During the six years of war 2 million marriages had taken place and there was a severe housing shortage . |
| 19 | The basis of independent and safe personal mobility is best developed in skills established in the pre-school years and fostered in the early years at school . |
| 20 | Young adults living with relatives The early years of marriage traditionally have been a time when people did live with relatives , before establishing their own household , although this is now less common than it once was . |
| 21 | Thus sharing accommodation with relatives in the early years of marriage still is the experience of a sizeable minority of the population , especially for those who marry young . |
| 22 | To anticipate that discussion , the available evidence suggests that elderly people , just like people in the early years of marriage , have always shared a home with relatives for instrumental reasons of a financial kind rather than by personal preference ( Wall , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | Anxiety about in-law relationships , and evidence that some considerable adjustment can be necessary , is found also in Mansfield and Collard 's ( 1988 ) study of the early years of marriage . |
| 24 | This ‘ front-loading ’ of mortgage payments in the early years of the mortgage ( which very frequently coincides with the early years of marriage ) will tend to require two earners at that time . |
| 25 | A consequence of these differences in the early years of marriage and childbearing is that fertility levels are much higher among those who live in the local authority rather than the owner-occupied sector — and fertility differentials by housing tenure are much greater than other conventionally used socio-economic variables such as social class , female employment , education , or income ( see figure 7.5 ) . |
| 26 | In the early years of school children can contribute to an ‘ I can do ’ booklet which records such milestones as naming shapes , tying shoelaces , writing name and address unaided , counting to twenty and many other significant causes for celebration . |
| 27 | Consequently , if young children really do lack the ability to handle explanations , their capacity to benefit from the early years of schooling will be severely restricted . |
| 28 | Professional Studies in the early years of schooling is a course which extends throughout the first three years of the degree . |
| 29 | In the early years of schooling , for example , children 's activities in the play area frequently include shopping . |
| 30 | There were a number of episodes of armed resistance to British authority during the early years of occupation , and they were dealt with in a fashion amply sufficient to deter . |