Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] [noun] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trained in Ryazan during the wartime years , he returned to Poland to rise to divisional command ( Major-General ) at the age of 33 . |
| 2 | He remembered the proud , fearless Sylvie of the war years , the seductive Sylvie on her many stages , feeding off her music and the eyes directed at her , and giving back amply in return . |
| 3 | It is easy now to regard this wonder at an enemy 's humanity as naïve , but as it is the business of war to foster the naïveté on which it thrives , so there can have been few people in England during the isolation years of 1940–42 who did not take the impersonal nature of their enemy for granted . |
| 4 | From a sample of 162 eventual fellows of the society who had been over sixteen in 1642 , and therefore old enough to have taken sides in the civil war , and discounting foreigners not in England during the war years ( and a further 22 for whom there is inadequate documentation ) , 38 fought for , or supported , Parliament , while 85 were royalist in 1642 . |
| 5 | A wide range of such organizations were affiliated to the UDC during the war years , with a collective membership of 650,000 . |
| 6 | The Journal du Dimanche called him ‘ the Dorian Gray of the AIDS years ’ . |
| 7 | Her father , who died in 1966 , was in contact with Tippett until the war years when they lost touch . |
| 8 | Some countries of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , such as Afghanistan , became very close allies of the USSR in the Brezhnev years and indeed all but members of the socialist state system . |
| 9 | Nevertheless those who frequented Soho during the war years found its post-war existence disappointing . |
| 10 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 11 | Known as FJ Gutmann in the 1930s , he anglicised his name to Goodman for the war years , serving in the ranks as a soldier before becoming attached to the Royal Air Force 's Photographic Interpretation Unit at Medmenham by the war 's end . |
| 12 | The occupational structure of West Ham in the interwar years was still dominated by unskilled labour , amongst which the ravages of casualism had persisted , even intensified ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 13 | All the same , John Alexander 's piece on the Paris period would have made livelier and easier reading if he had not , like Richard Humphreys on the London years , limited himself so self-effacingly to the documentation , necessary though that is . |
| 14 | Equally important in explaining the full employment promise is the public mood of economic and social radicalism which characterised Britain during the war years . |
| 15 | Conditions within Iran during the war years were not free from criticism . |
| 16 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 17 | I suggest that in our social hospitality we should follow an example set by India during the war years and limit the number of guests at all such functions to fifty . |
| 18 | The Civil Service Department , invented by Lord Crowther-Hunt in the Wilson years , was merged into the Treasury scheme of things in 1981 . |
| 19 | Certainly it is the Pound of the London years , who had profited from Ford Madox Ford 's pronouncements on diction , that Phyllis Bottome must have had in mind when she wrote : |