Example sentences of "[noun] in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previous journals have been devoted to applied arts in the pre-war years , turn-of-the-century design , artists as educators , aspects of British interior design , and the European connection . |
| 2 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 3 | Obviously we are not going to cure the blight of centuries in a few years . |
| 4 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 5 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 6 | The shedding of older labour has also been a feature of the experience of the cohort just below the statutory retirement age , with male activity-rates in the 60–64 years age-group falling from 83 per cent in 1971 to 60 per cent in 1986 . |
| 7 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 8 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 9 | As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said , there was a massive increase in business investment in the three years up to 1989 . |
| 10 | Much has sometimes been made , for example , of the Daily Mirror 's rapport with its working class readers in the post-war years — the press equivalent of a cloth cap image ( the cartoon character ‘ Andy Capp ’ , ironically , was introduced when the period was ending ) . |
| 11 | How can we allow the commercial hunting of whales when they could be starved of food because of ozone depletion in a few years ' time ? " |
| 12 | Most scientists expect that it will show , as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , that low doses of radiation have no detectable effect on humans or animals in the first years after an accident . |
| 13 | The island had responded particularly to the fervent missionary work of the itinerant Baptist preachers in the early years of the century . |
| 14 | England had probably lost in international importance during the fifteenth century , partly because of her defeat in the Hundred Years War , partly because of the success of the Habsburgs in building up their empire on the basis of dynastic marriages . |
| 15 | An apt description of Elizabeth 's cast of mind in the very years when her first biography was planned and written was given by Rudolf Steiner in 1900 . |
| 16 | But VMI 's lawyers suggested at the court hearing that West Point has ‘ gone soft ’ , that its discipline records show a pattern of sexual tension in the 15 years since women were admitted — and that these have led to ‘ substantial , deep-seated problems . ’ |
| 17 | Last year the EEC 's member-governments decided to double the size of the structural funds in the five years 1988-92 to 50 billion ecus ( $55 billion ) to offset ‘ imbalances ’ likely to be caused by the 1992 project . |
| 18 | David 's step-brother , Terry , was also a great influence on David in the early years . |
| 19 | Ultra-high purity titanium is critical to the manufacture of a wide variety of semiconductor devices and , allied to the other metals and alloys produced by Alta , offers further exciting growth opportunities in the coming years . |
| 20 | Of all the consequences of the Battle of Gumbinnen , the most significant was the appointment of Hindenburg and Ludendorff to command , for they quickly formed a superlative military team , for a time as successful as that of Marlborough and Prince Eugene in the early years of the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | There were no written rules or code of practice in the early years of the trade , and anyone could set themselves up as a coffin-maker or undertaker . |
| 22 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |
| 23 | The National Curriculum and its attendant assessment arrangements will clearly dominate most teachers ' minds and practice in the coming years . |
| 24 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 25 | Euromoney ranked Singapore 's economic performance as the world 's second best after Taiwan in the three years to 1992 , based on the views of 34 economists from leading banks . |
| 26 | Cynewulf 's annexation of land bordering on the Thames in Berkshire in the early years of Offa 's reign certainly appears to have been followed up by further action in the original Gewissian territory around Dorchester . |
| 27 | One New Yorker who encountered Fred Newman and social therapy in the early years was Lenora Branch Fulani , who was earning a PhD in developmental psychology at the City University of New York . |
| 28 | I did n't get anywhere very fast , but when you are confident and you know the market is there it is inevitable , because of the heavy initial investment , that you 're going to make substantial losses in the early years . |
| 29 | forbidding the use of capillary fittings containing lead-based solder on pipes supplying drinking water ( see Chapter 2 ) n changing the size of flushing cisterns used with WCs ( to come into effect in a few years ' time — see Chapter 8 ) |
| 30 | The minutes and the printed annual accounts of the directors throw further light on the activities at the House of Industry in the early years of the nineteenth century . |