Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in these years " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened progress proved possible in three directions in these years — the formation of Nato 's Nuclear Planning Group ; an agreed if rather fuzzy definition of flexible response ; and the negotiation of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with the USSR . |
| 2 | The rapid growth of private charity in these years also gave rise to institutions demonstrating a variety of approaches to the palliation of poverty . |
| 3 | Even so , Baden-Powell 's intriguing romanticisation of what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ was not an uncommon response in these years . |
| 4 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 5 | All pupils in these years follow a general familiarisation course in computer applications timetabled for one period each week . |
| 6 | The uncertain nature of political alignments in these years made it inevitable , then , that a National Government would come under serious consideration as a remedy for Britain 's ills . |
| 7 | McMillan gained surgical experience in these years and when , in 1959 , he joined Paul Chin and Eric Machell , both pioneers themselves , at Southampton , they made steady progress in closed and open-heart surgery . |
| 8 | Tournaments were a regular feature of noble life in these years , and in 1344 at an especially magnificent tournament held at Windsor the king took an oath to establish an Order of Knights of the Round Table as it had existed in the days of Ring Arthur . |
| 9 | And it was indeed hope , education and reformation that dominated the sphere of juvenile justice in these years , most solidly embodied in the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 which consolidated these developments in the treatment of young offenders . |
| 10 | Particularly close links were forged with the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives , whose head office was in Northampton and whose Assistant Secretary in these years , Syd Robinson , was chairman of the regional WETUC , chairman of the Northamptonshire Federation and vice-chairman of the District . |
| 11 | The apparent social harmony of the mid-century could be attributed to Britain 's economic success in these years . |
| 12 | This factor also accounts for the changes in the shares of imports taken from the Soviet Union and the developing countries in these years . |
| 13 | It is indeed hard to see how any Unionist leader in these years could have acted against such firm convictions to put the national interest first . |
| 14 | Colnaghi contributed little to American museums in these years ( the 1930s and 1940s ) and what they did sell betrayed an unwillingness to adapt to the times . |
| 15 | Still , there can be no doubt that the first great emigration wave of our period ( 1845–54 ) was essentially a flight from hunger or pressure of population on land , basically in Ireland and Germany , which supplied 80 per cent of all transatlantic migrants in these years . |
| 16 | Indeed , given a campaign by Wulfhere as far as the coast , it is difficult to see how the whole extent of the northern territory of the western Saxons from Berkshire to Somerset could have escaped Mercian pressure in these years , creating perhaps precedents for further Mercian involvement in these districts at a later time . |
| 17 | There remained one other tactic in these years , which had an earlier antislavery history too , designed to provide a role for individual abolitionists in England and convince them that they were contributing to advancing freedom internationally ; it was the tactic of economic boycott of slave-grown raw materials or goods produced from them . |
| 18 | So , European history is a distinguishable topic in these years . |
| 19 | Dramatic as the change in the system was , its actual contribution to the royal war-effort in these years was less impressive . |
| 20 | That was even true of de Gaulle 's other main preoccupation in these years — his ambitious and contentious foreign policy . |
| 21 | It is thus possible to see local politics in these years as having , in some degree , a life of its own ’ ( 1985a , pp. 82–3 ) . |