Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bond between grandparents and grandchildren can remain strong during the difficult years of adolescence . |
| 2 | The Soviet Union 's commitment to nuclear power appeared strong during the three years following Chernobyl but since 1989 there has been an increasing number of public demonstrations against nuclear power expansion , especially in the Baltic republics , the Ukraine , Byelorussia and Armenia . |
| 3 | You could lose yourself here , I thought , fall asleep for a hundred years . |
| 4 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 5 | The Gongsters are complete for the 3 years 48–51 except for the first two issues . |
| 6 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 7 | One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles . |
| 8 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 9 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 10 | I do think it is scandalous thing neglecting your educational system and you 're going to pay for this for a hundred years , because riches just come by learning , that 's all . |
| 11 | Although the records are much more reliable for the later years , the absolute number of marriages declined steadily with the age of the sample . |
| 12 | The child learns this during the pre-school years and will also start to eat for comfort . |
| 13 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |
| 14 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 15 | But I think I 'd actually like to support that idea , I think we ought to er er write back to them and say it 's a splendid idea , erm let's have more of it and and thank you to the local government commission for s er seeing to this after a hundred years . |
| 16 | Recession has sapped demand throughout Europe and America at a time when stocks were already high after the good years of 1988–90 . |
| 17 | Yet caring for a parent coincides with some of the busiest years of life . |
| 18 | However , as you know , you must be very , very careful with the few years that remain to you . ’ |
| 19 | Erm but er I learnt to write a fair hand , erm without too many flourishes , which er because I was always told that somebody might be looking at this in a hundred years time , or more . |
| 20 | Mr Hicks points out : ‘ These guys have done all this in the worst years of a recession . |
| 21 | There will undoubtedly be more battles like this in the coming years , whether or not the Conservatives hold on to power . |
| 22 | big sand stone rocks , they find things that fish today er had , had got other pediments that million years back , same thing , but not , not , not the same as they are today , you know , well they must of got hold of it to be different from a million years ago |
| 23 | Again the two models of suburbanization by addition and redevelopment are useful but the pattern of their application was rather different from the inter-war years . |
| 24 | However , what may look like a good deal now , as the UK emerges from its adjustment period of higher interest rates and recession , could look rather different in a few years ' time . |
| 25 | Its policy on Europe could best be described as jerking from one extreme to another within a few years , at one moment leaving the European Community altogether and in the next being willing to sign up to anything for which the EC asks ; at one moment supporting the closed shop and in the next denigrating it . |
| 26 | Heavily illustrated , this work will please all those interested in the early years of German aviation . |
| 27 | I 've always been very interested in the Hundred Years ’ War . |
| 28 | The pattern of press reporting of rape trials is quite different in 1985 from the previous years we had studied — 1951 , 1961 , 1971 and 1978 . |
| 29 | These models of quiet efficiency ignored much of the razzmatazz associated with booming stock markets , to emerge collectively some £2.5 billion wealthier in the eleven-and-a-half years Mrs Thatcher occupied Downing Street . |
| 30 | At the Court of Wards the Tooke family were making the office of auditor hereditary in the last years of Elizabeth , but it was still possible for an active reformer like John Hare to be appointed Clerk ; inexperienced men began to be appointed to offices in this court under James . |