Example sentences of "[coord] in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew they would return ; perhaps tomorrow , in a year or in a million years , but they would be back . |
| 2 | ‘ When I was at university , doing my professional training or in the early years of practice , I always worked with women women solicitors , women bankers and so on . |
| 3 | No fathers were monitored for exposure at around the time of their child 's conception , or in the four years preceding their child 's conception . |
| 4 | Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it . |
| 5 | Quitting England , the two moved into the abandoned eighteenth-century château Castille in Provence which they renovated The pictures were Douglas 's and the furniture was mine ’ , says Richardson and in a few years , Cooper and Richardson made the place a private museum and shrine to Cubism and its creators , and where Picasso , Leger and Braque were frequent visitors . |
| 6 | The rate for waggoning increased and in a few years up to about 11/ per 100 kibbles was paid for ore brought out to the Bonsor Mill . |
| 7 | Let them run down just so much every year , remember your low outgoings , and in a few years ' time have them towed away for their break-up value . " |
| 8 | A fee was paid to the ruling body and in the early years these were very low indeed . |
| 9 | In the 1890s there was a strong Methodist presence in Edenderry and in the early years of the twentieth century the row of houses running from Watson Street to Mr Hoy 's butcher 's shop was known as ‘ Methodist Row ’ . |
| 10 | The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater . |
| 11 | Under Edward I and Edward II , and in the early years of Edward III , grants of money had generally been made with reluctance , and had been accompanied by many complaints about the conduct of royal financial officials . |
| 12 | Although a small Privy Council is different from an informal inner ring , the new body does not seem entirely original , for it had precedents in the fifteenth century and in the early years of Henry VIII . |
| 13 | Those who have some knowledge of railway history will recall what was known in the last century and in the early years of this century as ’ the railway interest ’ . |
| 14 | In the nineteenth century , and in the early years of the twentieth century , there was a high output of geological publication in the form of irregular monographic serials ( Menard 142 ) . |
| 15 | In the nineteenth century , and in the early years of the twentieth century , there was a high output of geological publication in the form of irregular monographic serials ( Menard ) . |
| 16 | Excavations have been continuing since the eighteenth century , and in the early years much was lost in plundering and in destruction by lack of knowledge of the work . |
| 17 | The last years of Henry VII had been a prosperous period for the port — the average annual sum paid in customs dues from 1504 to 1509 was over £10,000 , and in the early years of Henry VIII a group of merchants had maintained voyages to Brazil . |
| 18 | The irregularity of his semi-bigamous relationship with Ælfgifu of Northampton ( see Chapter 4 ) and levy of £82,500 in 1018 did not fulfil the Christian king 's duty to tax his people lightly and set them a good example , and in the early years of the reign many churchmen doubtless feared the worst . |
| 19 | Like the teachers reported by Keddie ( 1971 ) , the authors of the proposals responded to educationalist questions with educationalist answers , and in the latter years of the project , proposals have clearly been influenced by the growing refinement of the guidelines . |
| 20 | The organization was dedicated to the overthrow of capitalism worldwide , and in the latter years of the 1920s Comintern agents began working secretly in the vulnerable , far-flung colonial territories of the capitalist nations to exploit the native discontent . |
| 21 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
| 22 | There is also a highly popular staff restaurant and in the eight years since CCG began catering we have introduced several innovations such as vegetarian and ethnic food , a salad restaurant , an outside catering service and a bespoke catering service to satellite locations . |
| 23 | The financial importance of this seizure for Edward III has yet to be satisfactorily explored and calculated , though it was clearly considerable : there were just over a hundred cells or estates involved and in the financial years 1342–3 and 1345–6 they paid farms to the king totalling £5304. 7/ 7d. and £4181. 8/. 2d. respectively . |
| 24 | The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 , however morally repugnant , did at least provide the USSR with a breathing-space in which military preparations could be accelerated ; the pact , however , was broken off in June 1941 when German forces invaded the USSR 's western borderlands , and in the four years that followed the USSR lost over 26 million citizens and suffered material damage on an unimaginable scale . |
| 25 | Carden is Europe 's most northerly commercial vineyard and in the four years since it opened has already established itself in the wine market . |
| 26 | At the annual Sinn Fein conference in Dublin in January 1970 , a majority broke away to form the Provisional IRA , and in the following years planned and executed an increasing number of shootings and bombings . |
| 27 | This book established Kitto as a writer , and in the following years , he wrote a number of books — many of them based on the Scripture , including the work which is still regarded as the best of its kind , Cyclopaedia of Biblical Literature . |
| 28 | Enhanced by Picasso 's growing fame , Juan Gris ( 1887–1927 ) left his native Spain for Paris in 1906 , and in the following years was to become one of the leading artists of the Cubist movement . |
| 29 | Thornton patronage in Colchester placed the Rev. William Marsh there in 1814 and in the following years an evangelical connection was established across southern East Anglia . |
| 30 | It was not the end of the Orcs of course , and in the following years Sigmar took the battle deep into the forests and mountains , rooting out Goblin strongholds and driving his enemies ever deeper into the wilds . |