Example sentences of "[art] [adj] years after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Communist Party of the Soviet Union , for example , saw a decline in the proportion of its members drawn from the working class in the fifty years after the Revolution and an increase in the proportions drawn from peasants and the intelligentsia . |
| 2 | The circumstances which have produced such patterns in some ways are similar to those in Britain in the past , namely in the early years after a migration , with the additional dimension that , in the case of migrants say from Pakistan , joint households are a familiar pattern and indeed often are larger than those established in Britain ( Saifullah Khan , 1977 ; Anwar , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | In the three years after the murder of Zhang Zuolin Japanese — Chinese tension in Manchuria reached new heights as radical young officers from the Guandong Army urged Japanese occupation of the area . |
| 4 | The political murder rate , attributed primarily to the tribal police , was almost equivalent to that of Chile in the three years after the coup against Allende . |
| 5 | The political murder rate , attributed primarily to the tribal police , was almost equivalent to that of Chile in the three years after the coup against Allende . |
| 6 | It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England . |
| 7 | Most scientists expect that it will show , as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , that low doses of radiation have no detectable effect on humans or animals in the first years after an accident . |
| 8 | For the five years after the murder of the woman at the Theatre Royal his interventions in my life remained purely educative . |
| 9 | During the recent years after the war the university rose in national importance and always had a close connection with the bishop . |
| 10 | New Zealand rugby and the All Blacks were not quite protected by the armour-plating they wore in the two years after the 1987 World Cup triumph , but the Irish would pay testimony to the fact that the All Blacks had become a very hard bunch of men by the end of their tour . |
| 11 | In the turmoil of the two years after the Japanese surrender , catastrophic inflation at triple digit rates coupled with an explosion of labour and political activity culminated in mass protest and plans for a general strike on 1 February 1947 . |
| 12 | It led to no permanent transfers of territory , though some islands were made neutral at the end of the war , and the half-dozen years after the war ended in 1749 were one of the peaks of eighteenth-century prosperity in the sugar trades . |
| 13 | It was , as the Duchess said in her speech , an exciting event because Derbyshire had so few smaller manor houses of this type open to the public — and what made it all the more special was the fact that Eyam Hall is still the family home of the Wrights , who built ( or rather rebuilt ) it , a few years after the plague , in 1671 . |
| 14 | A few years after the dissection , it is believed that Philip O'Kelly , brother of the deceased Denis , gave the skeleton to Bond , who kept it in his premises in Upper Brook Street until his death . |
| 15 | But to all West Germany 's neighbours , the idea of a German military force only a few years after the defeat of Hitler s armies was still repugnant . |
| 16 | One of the sharpest recessions came a few years after the Conservative government , sensitive to the enormous profits made in earlier years , had imposed ( in 1963 ) a variable levy rising to 45 per cent on the companies ' advertising revenue ( as distinct from their profits ) . |
| 17 | In A.D. 6 , a few years after the death of Herod , Judaea was annexed and incorporated into the Roman Empire as a procuratorial province with Caesarea as its capital . |
| 18 | Only a few years after the war the arts became separated from ideology in a way that enabled both artistic practice and theory to gain so-called independence . |
| 19 | It opens a few years after the final English conquest of Wales in 1282/3 ; it closes with the outbreak of the last great Welsh revolt . |
| 20 | A few years after the end of our period ( 1887 ) the German professor Ferdinand Toennies formulated the distinction between Gemeinschaft ( community ) and Gesellschaft ( a society of individuals ) , two twins now familiar to every student of sociology . |
| 21 | But he gave the lion 's share of the credit for the victory to Snodin , playing his first full 90 minutes for two and a half years after a series of hamstring and knee injuries put his career in doubt . |
| 22 | In one recent case the victim of a stabbing died two and a half years after the incident , having been kept on a life-support machine for almost the entire time . |
| 23 | And there was perhaps not so much to laugh at in that ; for by North 's trial , two and a half years after the breaking of the scandal , the overwhelming majority of Americans had come to feel much the same way . |
| 24 | Therefore , three and a half years after the accident , Dawn accepted the amount offered , which was sufficient to pay back the £70,000 her father had spent on her treatment and a specially adapted car , and to provide her with an ongoing income to cover her living expenses . |
| 25 | However , he took evening classes in some subjects , and started part-time work about three and a half years after the accident . |
| 26 | There is a danger that , three and a half years after the Piper Alpha tragedy , some of the scenes — although etched on the memory — are fading from front-line political significance . |
| 27 | The last few patients , mainly elderly , have now been moved to other hospitals and today staff were sadly clearly up after a farewell party , three and a half years after the research ward opened . |
| 28 | Every five years after the age of fifty or fifty five , I ca n't remember quite which , and then one year after the age of , after sixty five . |