Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [prep] [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the study of homicide is largely based on a quantitative analysis of details of 1,482 cases committed during the years 1883 — 9 and 1900 — 4 ( Appendix B ) . |
| 2 | In 1957 Macmillan inherited the leadership of an unpopular government , lagging behind Labour in the opinion polls , but the policies pursued over the years to 1959 managed eventually to retrieve the party 's position : Macmillan 's nuclear ‘ defence ’ policy seemed at the time a plausible way to reclaim the status of a world power on the cheap ; the formation of EFTA was negotiated ; Macmillan sacked the deflationary Chancellor Thorneycroft and substituted Heathcoat-Amory who instituted another convenient bout of pre-election tax cutting . |
| 3 | Vincent 's demands mounted over the years until they seemed to flood in — as they often did — by every other post . |
| 4 | The V & A exhibition has examples of his social landscapes , portraits and nudes taken in the years 1956–87 , while the Zelda Cheatle gallery is showing only nudes . |
| 5 | These include : commercial records ; broadcasts recorded off-air ; private recordings donated over the years ; oral history interviews ; tapes of some of Britain 's leading theatre companies ; railway , wildlife , and ethnic sounds collected by experts in their fields ; and so on . |
| 6 | Happily attempts are being made to change the colts qualifying date to September 1st from 1993 onwards rather than the anomalous January 1st which has for years disrupted team building by splitting units established over the years on the September date . |
| 7 | Florrie , 85 , well known for her rescue work with Greyhounds , lost her many coursing trophies collected over the years . |
| 8 | This was clearly demonstrated in a special analysis made by OECD ( 1983 , 51 ) of trade between Yugoslavia on the one side and West Germany , Italy , and all OECD countries combined in the years 1978–81 . |
| 9 | The precise ingredients changed across the years after 1945 , as they had before . |
| 10 | No photographs , no knick-knacks gathered over the years . |
| 11 | The party 's fortunes varied over the years . |
| 12 | I 've been sifting through my daily routine and I 've turned up quite a handsome collection of finely-wrought deceits cultivated over the years . |
| 13 | But the treatment 's efficacy was several times demonstrated in the years which followed when his two elder sons , exposed to smallpox , failed to catch the disease . |
| 14 | VI , of the widely-ratified Non-Proliferation Treaty , and is embodied in general terms as well in the Charter of the United Nations and in a variety of formal resolutions adopted over the years by the General Assembly ; and |
| 15 | Here Anne worked with a team of machinists instructed to make four copies of each of sixty dresses selected from the years 1770–1870 . |
| 16 | The economic hardship facing farmers worsened in the years after 1914 . |
| 17 | In this respect he typifies the return to native sources advocated in the years 1925 to 1930 from Venezuela to Argentina . |
| 18 | Why , then , have differences in socio-economic mortality rates widened over the years ? |
| 19 | As water levels changed over the years some caves became dry , while others are still being made larger by the effect of underground streams , and some are still completely waterlogged . |
| 20 | By the 1920s an elaborate hierarchy of colours indicated the position of the record within a class system ; the overall range of prices varied over the years , but not the implied class structure . |
| 21 | In the drawing room , where they had drunk their pre-dinner sherry , Dalgliesh had a sense of a room which deliberately rejected the past , containing nothing which could violate the owner 's essential privacy ; no family history in photograph or portrait , no shabby heirlooms given room out of nostalgia , sentimentality or family piety , no antiques collected over the years . |
| 22 | How have your feelings towards your own parents and teachers changed over the years ? |
| 23 | The Association , through many workshops and seminars held over the years , has supported artists who express their Christian faith through their art . |
| 24 | This article is based on notes kept over the years since the late 1970s . |
| 25 | Have the rules changed over the years , for example have the age groups or allowing girls to take part or anything like that ? |
| 26 | Inset , right : oh , how the design of those programme flyers improved over the years ! |
| 27 | Both the gardens and the castle are said to be undermined with escape tunnels built during the years of Communism . |