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 | Although the records are much more reliable for the later years , the absolute number of marriages declined steadily with the age of the sample . |
| 7 | Well if it came over his house th oh of course , next to the that will have been empty for a few years so |
| 8 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 9 | Recession has sapped demand throughout Europe and America at a time when stocks were already high after the good years of 1988–90 . |
| 10 | However , as you know , you must be very , very careful with the few years that remain to you . ’ |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Heavily illustrated , this work will please all those interested in the early years of German aviation . |
| 15 | I 've always been very interested in the Hundred Years ’ War . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It had become clear over the ensuing years that the requirements concerning collective worship had increasingly been disregarded by schools , and there were calls for the introduction of a more flexible system as well as suggestions that as a concept collective worship in school was outmoded and out of line with the more secular society in Britain , and should , therefore , be abandoned altogether . |
| 18 | In no way had he been consciously sadistic over the earlier years , but he had a deep fear of women who took over , as his mother had done . |
| 19 | Fitted bedroom furniture is particularly popular around the 35 years of age group . |
| 20 | If I remember right , first home matches have been similar for a few years now . |
| 21 | For the majority in all occupational groups , earnings are roughly similar in the early years of employment , that is , between the ages of 20 and 25 . |
| 22 | This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time . |
| 23 | The issue in this appeal is whether profits accruing to the taxpayer company , HK-TVB International Ltd. in the four years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 arose in or derived from Hong Kong . |
| 24 | In the United States , although a social survey movement not unlike the tradition of Booth , Rowntree and , later , Bowley , was prominent in the early years of the twentieth century , different political traditions , among other things , gave rise to a different use of social surveys . |
| 25 | At the same time the clergyman-poet Johann Rist ( 1607–67 ) provided a focus for song-composition , comparable with Simon Dach , at Hamburg , a city which , like Königsberg , was untouched by the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 26 | What is remarkable about the inter-war years is the consistency of trade union policies and the forthright manner with which the General Council pursued its intention of forging an effective industrial alliance between its member unions . |
| 27 | Curiously , net trading assets are virtually unchanged between the two years . |
| 28 | The research also found that children who tended to withdraw following the sibling 's birth were likely to be hostile during the ensuing years and their relationship was often conflictual . |
| 29 | Indeed , it was an achievement that they managed it just long enough to clinch the Heineken title and then , once it did not matter any longer began to lose games at a rate that would have been unthinkable during the previous years of unbroken triumph . |
| 30 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |