Example sentences of "[art] years [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Over the years too the story has grown and at least one fan seems to recall that I potted every ball in the final frame one-handed ! ’
2 Both the Keynes effect and the real-balance effect were to form the essential ingredients of the professional consensus which emerged in the years following the publication of the General Theory known as the neo-classical synthesis .
3 In the years following the publication of the General Theory , doubts started to be expressed about Keynes 's favourable attitude towards the classical theory of the demand for labour .
4 During this period she fostered , in association with the Child Guidance Service , the establishment of a team of teachers to provide extra help in Edinburgh primary schools for pupils with learning difficulties : a pioneer concept which was to become more fully implemented in the years following the publication in 1978 of the Warnock Report on Pupils with Special Educational Needs .
5 They have increasingly been applied by ordinary church members in the years following the Council .
6 In this respect , RENFE benefited from its special status as a symbolic embodiment of the processes of democratization in the years following the death of Franco .
7 Securing the suppression of the foreign slave trade might be achieved in part in wartime by naval power but otherwise was mainly seen as requiring lobbying of and consultation with ministers , communicating with British diplomats and naval commanders for information and to provide stimulus to intervention in particular cases and pressing arguments upon foreign leaders , particularly during the Congress phase of European diplomacy in the years following the defeat of Napoleon .
8 The Tory Reaction is sometimes seen as the beginnings of the attempt to revive royal absolutism in England , and certainly in the years following the defeat of Exclusion supporters of the Crown encouraged an exalted view of monarchy .
9 It was always envisaged that the House of Lords would use the freedom to depart from its own previous decisions sparingly , but in the years following the Practice Statement the potential impact of the new freedom was narrowed by the addition of a series of riders .
10 In the years following the violence of the Mexican revolution , great attention was paid to the content of education , in an attempt to involve the young in the principles of the revolution , but this emphasis has declined in the second half of the century .
11 The book was influential in the abolition of the tied cottage in the years following the war .
12 But in no Western country so far , other than in the years following the end of a war , has there been a major permanent reduction in the role of the state .
13 An exhibition of Max Ernst 's most important period , covering his work as a Dada artist in Cologne after 1912 and in Paris in the years following the end of World War I , opens at the Museum of Modern Art , New York , in the middle of this month ( 14 March-2 May ) .
14 Levels of recorded crime certainly did shoot up in the years following the implementation of the 1933 Act , and the crime rate for boys under 14 years of age found guilty of indictable offences almost doubled in only three years .
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