Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 2 | As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said , there was a massive increase in business investment in the three years up to 1989 . |
| 3 | How can we allow the commercial hunting of whales when they could be starved of food because of ozone depletion in a few years ' time ? " |
| 4 | England had probably lost in international importance during the fifteenth century , partly because of her defeat in the Hundred Years War , partly because of the success of the Habsburgs in building up their empire on the basis of dynastic marriages . |
| 5 | An apt description of Elizabeth 's cast of mind in the very years when her first biography was planned and written was given by Rudolf Steiner in 1900 . |
| 6 | But VMI 's lawyers suggested at the court hearing that West Point has ‘ gone soft ’ , that its discipline records show a pattern of sexual tension in the 15 years since women were admitted — and that these have led to ‘ substantial , deep-seated problems . ’ |
| 7 | There were no written rules or code of practice in the early years of the trade , and anyone could set themselves up as a coffin-maker or undertaker . |
| 8 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |
| 9 | The National Curriculum and its attendant assessment arrangements will clearly dominate most teachers ' minds and practice in the coming years . |
| 10 | One New Yorker who encountered Fred Newman and social therapy in the early years was Lenora Branch Fulani , who was earning a PhD in developmental psychology at the City University of New York . |
| 11 | forbidding the use of capillary fittings containing lead-based solder on pipes supplying drinking water ( see Chapter 2 ) n changing the size of flushing cisterns used with WCs ( to come into effect in a few years ' time — see Chapter 8 ) |
| 12 | The minutes and the printed annual accounts of the directors throw further light on the activities at the House of Industry in the early years of the nineteenth century . |
| 13 | This study sets out to examine , albeit in a preliminary way , just how the rapid changes in the Scottish agricultural industry in the post-war years have affected those who work on the land . |
| 14 | Although Newcomen had produced the first practical steam-engine in the early years of the eighteenth century , it was capable only of a simple back-and-forth or up-and-down motion and therefore disappeared under-ground to be used for pumping water out of mines . |
| 15 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 16 | Theudebert I was already an active figure in the last years of his father 's reign , and he had the support of a military following , his leudes , with whose help he made good his claim to the throne . |
| 17 | The only way up to the first floor from inside the works was via a ladder , which had started life as one of The Salisbury Volunteer Fire Brigade escapes , probably acquired by Mr. Farr during his service as a fireman in the early years of the century . |
| 18 | Right well it will give you er I will go away and work these plans out but one that comes to mind is where there 's er a life cover but it 's a low level of life cover so you have more of an investment erm more of th more of your contributions goes towards the investment so that you get the bigger return in the ten years when you need it . |
| 19 | The question is then do we use up more future benefit in the earlier years than in later years ? |
| 20 | Many adult children gain great happiness from caring for a much-loved parent in the closing years of their life . |
| 21 | For although Red Rum went on to win two more Grand Nationals in 1974 and 1977 ( and to finish second in the intervening years of 1975 and 1976 ) , and although Crisp beat Red Rum easily the next time they met , there has never been a big race which a beaten horse so deserved to win . |
| 22 | Reasons such as ‘ over-indulgence in the early years ’ ( NAS 1974 ) and the perennial ‘ parental attitudes ’ ( PAT 1976 ) are typical examples . |
| 23 | Admittedly these characteristics became more obvious later on ; Kim Il Sung was dependent on the Soviet Union for assistance in the early years in north Korea and had to tread warily . |
| 24 | Britain 's most significant land battle in the Seven Years War , at Minden in 1759 , had involved 4,400 infantry . |
| 25 | Today they travelled to Westminster to call for help in the uncertain years ahead . |
| 26 | The alternative to keeping quiet about these problems is , of course , to deny their very existence , and the prize for the most successful campaign of VD eradication , or alternatively the rarest piece of dissembling , must go to Communist China which claims to have got rid of syphilis in the ten years after 1950 . |
| 27 | The motion called on the chamber to reconsider the issue in a few years ' time . |
| 28 | With the conduct of hostilities the paramount concern for both the USA and Britain , civil aviation remained a minor issue in the early years of the war . |
| 29 | I vote that this a good point other activities for the County Council in a few years that you that you will find er people anxious to support , thank you gentlemen |
| 30 | As an analysis of the nature of the child in the primary years and of the way children learn , the Plowden Report ranks as the most detailed study of the early years of schooling ever produced . |