Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adv] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Targets for mail posted in your area and performance for your district for the most recent year are shown in The Post Office 's Report and Accounts . ) |
| 2 | I 'd accept all that , just as I accepted her usually sharp-edged attitude to me during the nearly two years of our association . |
| 3 | In France during the most critical years of the Spanish Succession war in 1704–8 and 1712 , one in six of the male population was serving in the army or the militia ; and in the period 1700–63 about two million men were enrolled for military service there ( though some 300,000 of these were foreigners ) . |
| 4 | The outbreak of war naturally marked the end of the collaboration of Picasso and Braque , but the unprecedented closeness of their artistic careers over the preceding years makes it impossible to separate completely the contribution made by each to Cubism during the most vital years of its development . |
| 5 | During the more prosperous years of World War II , the Board of Trade reported an unsatisfied demand for shoes , which it explained by referring to a backlog of demand created by the inability of families to buy them during the 1930s . |
| 6 | Similarly a young Russian diplomat , serving in a junior post in London during the very first years of the twentieth century , found that the embassy possessed only one typewriter , and that so old that it was difficult to use . |
| 7 | But in more robust days , you would have been more likely to come upon a coven up there , since the summit of La Rhune was one of several places in the Basque lands where witches were held to convene during the very ugly years of persecution early in the seventeenth century — then it was , according to the local inquisitors , that English and Scottish travellers arriving by sea in Bordeaux saw veritable armies of devils making their way towards south-western France . |
| 8 | AFTER an outstandingly successful year of fund raising in 1990 , totalling £13,000 , Broadstairs ladies ' guild were able to make use of an empty shop in Harbour Street which the owner allowed to be used free of charge . |
| 9 | As regards the degree results of the over thirty year group there was no significant difference with the latter . |
| 10 | Chairman of selectors Ted Dexter was at Lilleshall to run his eye over final preparations and said : ‘ We have had one of the most successful years at international level that we have enjoyed in recent times , but the coming tour represents quite a different challenge to the ones our players have had before . ’ |
| 11 | Khomeini seemed then only a very small voice in the wilderness , Bit in retrospect , the party at Persepolis can be seen to symbolize the end of the most successful years of the Shahs reign . |
| 12 | Not that this can not be one of the most achievement-full years of your life — for indeed it can . |
| 13 | According to Chairman Richard Guy , 1992 has been one of the most difficult years faced by Gloucester-based Sherwood Computer Services Plc . |
| 14 | One Sunderland councillor , Stuart Deacon , who grew up near Roker Park , said last night the win marked another achievement in one of the most remarkable years in Wearside 's history . |
| 15 | CANCER — THIS could be one of the most important years in many Cancerians ' lives . |
| 16 | In many respects this was a return to the position of the very last years of the fourth century ; the establishment of arian kingdoms on Gallic soil had removed from the catholic bishops sole authority over the definition of the Christian community , and it was only the conversion of Clovis and the expansion of the Frankish kingdom which gave the ecclesiastical hierarchy the authority once more to define the Christian life for all the members of the State . |
| 17 | This was the highlight of a generally flat year for Olivetti , during which saw its market share rise to 6.1% from 5.8% . |
| 18 | However , when these two years ' figures are compared with those of previous years , it becomes obvious that the crackdown was introduced as a result of a particularly bad year for accidents . |
| 19 | It always is er a moment to reflect , to look forward to renew acquaintances , to recharge the batteries , to get new ideas and that 's quite right and this public meeting marks the eve of a particularly important year for all of us at the Save The Children Fund . |
| 20 | At the end of a spectacularly successful year , the TPLF drove the Ethiopian army out of Tigray province in February . |
| 21 | From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter . |
| 22 | Progress in its soft drinks business has been brisk , despite a generally lacklustre year , and by extreme good fortune , Coca-Cola & Schweppes Beverages escaped curtailment by the MMC . |
| 23 | In 1980 , Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark , a DinDisc act , had given the company their biggest selling album of an otherwise disastrous year . |
| 24 | Finally , I wish to record the Association 's sincere thanks to Sam Churchman , the Financial Secretary , and his staff for their work during a very busy year . |
| 25 | Venables thanked Shreeves ‘ for his services and dignity shown through a very tough year with the club ’ . |
| 26 | On his arrival at Leipzig in the autumn of 1865 , with a largely wasted year behind him and no fixed bearings for the future , he was in low spirits . |
| 27 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 28 | Younger people are on average thirteen times as likely to be assaulted as people in the over 45 years of age category . |
| 29 | Costs fell in the over 84 year olds . |
| 30 | Although occupational pension schemes are increasingly common , levels of payment are often linked to earnings in the most recent years of work . |