Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [prep] the years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we are in the years 1911 — 1920 , and Stravinsky , who was then in the throes of The Rite of Spring , found time , too , for his Two Poems of Balmont and the Three Japanese Lyrics . |
| 2 | As it happened , it was in the years immediately following the Ashby Report that the implications of voluntaryism , and the role which professionals should play as part of a voluntary movement , became matters of major concern within the District . |
| 3 | It was in the years between the First and Second World Wars that this enthusiasm was at its height . |
| 4 | Militant anti-war protest has ( with the possible exception of the early 1980s ) never been so widespread in Britain as it was in the years immediately before the Second World War . |
| 5 | Anti-Semitism is no longer a prevalent strain in English society , as it was in the years before the war . |