Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all right for the first years now cos they 're never even gon na know about it . |
| 2 | Commander Fairley saw at once the wisdom of keeping the two children of his first marriage together for the last years of their progress to maturity . |
| 3 | In the desperate circumstances of Edward 's war , especially in the last years of the reign , prayer was not always enough and the clergy had frequent occasions to become in a literal sense the church militant . |
| 4 | ‘ It was only in the last years that you knew us . ’ |
| 5 | He was far too honourable to approach Asquith with a deal which could only mean the compromise of both their principles for a period of artificial power , not unlike the last years of the Coalition ; and he saw that an anti-socialist alliance could only lead , in the end , to a major Labour victory . |
| 6 | Most of the growth was concentrated in the later decades of the nineteenth century and still more in the first years of the twentieth . |
| 7 | Before the 1980s its lowest ebb was probably during the last years of Stalin 's life when his private office and the secret police seem to have had more influence than the party . |
| 8 | Up to the last years of the eighteenth century , declining levels of employment in agriculture for the wives and daughters of the countryside could have been offset by the taking in of manufacturing work . |
| 9 | On Thursdays I go to music lesson and erm , we have this singing contest erm , we come second out of the first years , and we sung Mole in a Hole . |
| 10 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 11 | ‘ Josephinism ’ in religious matters , again , it is now clear , had behind it a long tradition extending back to the first years of the century . |
| 12 | Presumably such militias date back to the last years of the Roman period , although there is no evidence for them in the fifth century . |
| 13 | In practice , however , and particularly for the first years , what happened in labs was strictly controlled by the department . |
| 14 | Even throughout the first years of her marriage , she remained the dutiful wife , never complaining when her husband wanted to involve her in the country life . |
| 15 | It is true that she has not always got her own way in Cabinet , particularly in the first years . |
| 16 | The sudden fall of an able and apparently powerful minister such as the Duc de Choiseul in 1770 showed that even in the last years of the lethargic and indifferent Louis XV this control was real . |
| 17 | While artisans certainly had better opportunities than had most of the lower orders , it is probably unwise to insist that a very wide behavioural gap separated them from the " crowd " , at least until the last years of the eighteenth century . |
| 18 | Moreover , after relative tranquillity between 1907 and 1910 , the number of disturbances appears to have risen abruptly in the last years before the war . |
| 19 | Tory unity broke down seriously in the last years of Anne 's reign with regard to the Hanoverian Succession . |