Example sentences of "[conj] in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was at university , doing my professional training or in the early years of practice , I always worked with women women solicitors , women bankers and so on . |
| 2 | It has also to be remembered that although in the early years of the twentieth century , the advanced countries of the western European industrial ‘ base ’ ( Great Britain , Germany , France , Belgium and Luxembourg ) still provided the bulk of European production , industry was growing in other countries . |
| 3 | Although in the early years control did largely rest with the imperial family , others increasingly came to wield power in its name , and the years after 1185 saw hegemony pass to a succession of military rulers who achieved pre-eminent influence by virtue of superior military strength . |
| 4 | Since her election in 1986 , President Corazon Aquino had maintained a deliberately ambiguous stance over the bases ; although in the early years of her term she suggested some opposition to the US presence , this position had been weakened when US aircraft from the bases had played an essential role in Aquino 's defeat of a serious right-wing military coup attempt in December 1989 [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 5 | It is a tremendous satisfaction to record that in the following years this changed . |
| 6 | While it is comparatively easy to accept that in the primary years children have particular and specific qualities and that effective learning is most likely to take place in an environment which meets their intellectual , physical , social and emotional needs , it is much more difficult to define the components which make the learning environment effective . |
| 7 | It is clear from Clarkson 's History that in the early years of the anti-slave trade agitation local organisations were established through existing religious networks ( an example would be the Quaker Lloyds in Birmingham ) or contact by Clarkson or others with a small group of prominent individuals who already had an interest in the issue . |
| 8 | None the less , given the pressures on the BEA at the time , it is perhaps understandable that in the early years speed ( which proved elusive ) and reliability ( which they achieved ) were given priority over efficiency and economy . |
| 9 | There can be no doubt that in the early years of the twentieth century the use of revolvers was widespread among adult mobsters in London 's criminal underworld , and that feuds between rival outfits were not uncommonly settled by gun battles in the open streets . |
| 10 | Since one of the functions of the project was to stimulate library awareness and development among all schools , and since as the project progressed more schools made active attempts to achieve necessary thresholds for inclusion , it follows that in the early years , appropriate schools were sometimes hard to find . |
| 11 | Just making the point that in the early years , your income will be less , then there 's a crossover point , because the value of the asset grows , and so does the yield on the fund . |
| 12 | It has been estimated that in the early years of civil registration in some parts of England up to 15 per cent of births were not registered . |
| 13 | This discovery does make the point that trade had been established and there is no reason to think that in the closing years of his reign , when Cunobelinus was showing strong pro-Roman tendencies these commercial links with the Roman world would not have been fostered . |
| 14 | It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England . |
| 15 | Governments were weak , ideological divisions great : in the press apparent pluralism masked what the left termed ‘ a financial oligarchy ’ ; banks and industry and other ‘ forces of capitalism ’ controlled newspapers , including titles that in the inter-war years veered to the right ; press barons diversified into radio — as did their successors , often illegally , a half-century later . |
| 16 | What seems clear from the chart is that the real exchange rates have deviated by much larger amounts over the period 1978–88 than in the early years of floating . |
| 17 | Children were inefficient contributors to the kind of workforce now required and also a smaller proportion of the entire population than in the early years of the century . |
| 18 | Nearer to home , the London Letter reported the elevation of Disraeli to the peerage ‘ for reasons of health ’ , also that ‘ the number of lunatics in England and Wales on the first of January last was 64,619 , being 1123 more than in the previous years . ’ |
| 19 | In return , agriculture 's contribution to the industrial and urban sectors , though quantitatively less substantial than in the prewar years , has remained important . |
| 20 | A fee was paid to the ruling body and in the early years these were very low indeed . |
| 21 | In the 1890s there was a strong Methodist presence in Edenderry and in the early years of the twentieth century the row of houses running from Watson Street to Mr Hoy 's butcher 's shop was known as ‘ Methodist Row ’ . |
| 22 | The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater . |
| 23 | Under Edward I and Edward II , and in the early years of Edward III , grants of money had generally been made with reluctance , and had been accompanied by many complaints about the conduct of royal financial officials . |
| 24 | Although a small Privy Council is different from an informal inner ring , the new body does not seem entirely original , for it had precedents in the fifteenth century and in the early years of Henry VIII . |
| 25 | Those who have some knowledge of railway history will recall what was known in the last century and in the early years of this century as ’ the railway interest ’ . |
| 26 | In the nineteenth century , and in the early years of the twentieth century , there was a high output of geological publication in the form of irregular monographic serials ( Menard 142 ) . |
| 27 | In the nineteenth century , and in the early years of the twentieth century , there was a high output of geological publication in the form of irregular monographic serials ( Menard ) . |
| 28 | Excavations have been continuing since the eighteenth century , and in the early years much was lost in plundering and in destruction by lack of knowledge of the work . |
| 29 | The last years of Henry VII had been a prosperous period for the port — the average annual sum paid in customs dues from 1504 to 1509 was over £10,000 , and in the early years of Henry VIII a group of merchants had maintained voyages to Brazil . |
| 30 | The irregularity of his semi-bigamous relationship with Ælfgifu of Northampton ( see Chapter 4 ) and levy of £82,500 in 1018 did not fulfil the Christian king 's duty to tax his people lightly and set them a good example , and in the early years of the reign many churchmen doubtless feared the worst . |