Example sentences of "[art] [adj] years [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an order under this subsection is complied with , the licensing board shall not make a further order within the six years following the first-mentioned order . |
| 2 | From the early years following the introduction of the 1924 Regulations , experience showed that the net income derived from grant-aid , coupled with the District 's policy of setting its student fees at the lowest possible level to encourage enrolments , failed to lead to financial self-sufficiency and the District 's financial difficulties , although eased initially , were not eradicated . |
| 3 | Although primarily a banker ( he became Governor of the Bank of Ireland in 1820 ) Arthur Guinness the second ( 3 ) ( 1768–1855 ) was responsible for steering the company through the recessionary years following the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 4 | The first part of the study examines the impact of financial arrangements made at the time of the divorce on the people directly concerned for the three years following the divorce . |
| 5 | During the fourteen years following the Electrical conspiracy verdict , a further thirty-eight corporate executives out of nearly 800 convicted have been imprisoned for violations of the anti-trust laws . |
| 6 | For example , John Fox and Peter Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have shown that after controlling for age , mortality in the 5 years following the 1971 Census for men aged 15 to 64 was greater for the highest social class , professional workers , who were living in the local authority sector , than for the lowest social class , unskilled manual workers , in the owner-occupied sector ( see figure 7.9 ) . |
| 7 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 8 | It is , however , now possible , historiographically , to divide the twenty-five years following the Council into two distinctly different eras — that of Paul VI and that of John Paul II . |
| 9 | The recent excesses of the financial world inevitably invite comparisons with the 1930s , when share prices fell by two-thirds in the five years following the Great Crash of 1929 . |
| 10 | On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) . |
| 11 | It is a history of morale boosting , of public money being made available from various sources from 1918 onwards : to enrich the life in remote villages in danger of being deserted by the exodus after the First World War ; to occupy the unemployed in the 1930s on Tyneside ; to counter the dreary effect of the ‘ blackout ’ during the Second World War ( this was the first instance in this country of government subsidy ) ; to bring a sense of wellbeing to the community during the difficult years following the war ; and in particular , to occupy bored young people . |
| 12 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the twenty years following the Act were ones of such rapid development in policy in the child care field that by 1968 the Seebohm Report recommended the absorption of the child care service by unified social services departments and the merging of specialist child work into generic social work . |
| 14 | Over the coming years obviously the addition will be diluted as the graduates become the majority of our membership . |
| 15 | In the two years following the return to civilian rule the activity of a considerable number of the news media became increasingly partisan . |
| 16 | From the middle years onwards the phases were Manhood , under the control of Mars , Old Age under Jupiter , and finally Senility under Saturn . |
| 17 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 18 | Was , because a few years ago the hotel burned down and has gone forever . |
| 19 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 20 | But as with Gibson 's non-reverse Thunderbirds — and remember , until a few years ago the same could be said for Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters — they are just not currently de rigueur . |
| 21 | A few years ago the start was changed from the South Reading Community Centre to the Rivermead Leisure Centre ; the new set-up has proved popular with runners . |
| 22 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 23 | A few years ago the cousin of a Sumatran friend of ours was killed by a singularly persistent elephant . |
| 24 | A few years ago the French would come through the tunnel for an evening at Filippo 's , said Gioachino . |
| 25 | Until a few years ago the parish had the right to nominate one person to the Aims Houses at Cobham , also known as Cobham College . |
| 26 | Most secondary schools have now reached double figures in their stocks of micros — but only a few years ago the authors of a book ( Howe and Ross , 1981 ) could gently suggest that ‘ we can readily envisage the time when every educational institution in the country will have access to at least one microcomputer ’ . |
| 27 | A few years later the names were changed to reflect the changes in the operational roles of front-line Canberra squadrons , Bomber Squadron became Strike Squadron and PR Squadron became Recce Squadron . |
| 28 | A few years later the duchy of Austria was awarded to one of the sons of Rudolph of Habsburg . |
| 29 | A few years later the Turks attacked Hungary in sporadic raids which culminated , after the death of Sigismund in 1437 , in a full-scale expedition . |
| 30 | In A.D. 324 Constantine moved his capital to Byzantium and a few years later the Empire was divided into two parts , eastern and western . |