Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus ‘ size ’ is partly dependent on shape , a fact which was gradually recognized during the early years of the present century . |
| 2 | The impersonal and durable character of these rights was highlighted during the last years of Louis VII 's reign , in the use in charters of the phrase corona regni ( the crown of the kingdom ) , a phrase which marked out royal rights from princely by asserting their value to the kingdom as a whole . |
| 3 | I have n't toured for a few years now , apart from the World Cup and I made that an exception because I felt we could go all the way and win it . ’ |
| 4 | Karadjordje 's attempt to impose himself on this structure by having himself declared ‘ Supreme Leader ’ created tensions which were never resolved during the nine years of his rebel regime . |
| 5 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 6 | He seldom thought of the half-dozen men who had been hanged during the twenty years of his forensic experience , primarily because of his evidence , and when he did , it was not the strained but oddly anonymous faces in the dock which he remembered , or their names ; but paper and ink , the thickened downward stroke , the peculiar formation of a letter . |
| 7 | The teachers ' industrial action has limited this particular development , and the evaluators know of seven events which were either postponed or cancelled during the two years of the evaluation ; it is also probably the case that attendance at those events that did run was less than it would have been in happier times . |
| 8 | She had scrambled through the middle years of the decade . |
| 9 | It was the victories won during the Seven Years War of 1756–63 much more than any intrinsic merits of the British constitution which forced a revision of disparaging estimates of this kind . |
| 10 | Debt that was amassed during the go-go years of the 1980s remains high while confidence remains low . |
| 11 | THE COMMISSION of Investigation wishes to pay homage to you , in particular for your support to the Chadian people oppressed during the eight years of dictatorship of Hissein Habre . |
| 12 | In 1986 , when leading , he hit a four-iron into it , his confidence seemingly shattered for a few years after . |
| 13 | This had no very radical consequences : it was dropped after a few years , Diodorus says ( xi.87 ) , because too many of the prominent citizens were thereby discouraged from engaging in political life . |
| 14 | If the onset of such diseases can be delayed then morbidity will be compressed into the final years of life . |
| 15 | She wore a taffeta dress the colour of port wine and a white lace cap , and there was a happier air about her , though the lines of care had deepened with the extra years . |
| 16 | Most of the detailed factual material learned in the sixth form is forgotten or superseded within a few years . |
| 17 | Like the books mentioned above , its specific content will be superseded in a few years ; but in meantime the book may be able to rescue some future Nobel laureates from becoming otherwise lost in cyberspace . |
| 18 | His report ( Cmnd 1432 , 1961 ) resulted in major reforms in the system of Treasury control , many of which remain in place today , though substantially modified in the intervening years . |
| 19 | So far had music come in the sixteen years since Palestrina 's death . |
| 20 | The Norman exchequer ( probably instituted in the early years of the century , at the same time as its English counterpart ) used the tally , the chequered cloth , and the abacus to provide records for the illiterate and to overcome the considerable problems posed by the use of Roman numerals in addition and subtraction . |
| 21 | The basis of independent and safe personal mobility is best developed in skills established in the pre-school years and fostered in the early years at school . |
| 22 | In Sheffield there had been an attempt to rank grammar schools , and W. P. Alexander , the education officer , had argued then , and after 1945 as secretary of the AEC , for selection of 5% at the top , not 20%. 83 In practice , local authorities were constrained in the crucial years 1944–50 by existing buildings , shortage of funds for new ones and by existing teaching staff from making substantial innovations in their arrangements at all . |
| 23 | Steinitz 's own furniture , amassed over the twenty years since he acquired the Château and its contents , accounted for one-third of the lots . |
| 24 | Published by the Menil Foundation with Mercator Fonds and Thames & Hudson ( £45 ) , it is aimed at a wider readership , but it will be the essential essay for all students keen to learn how a great scholar 's opinions have been honed over the long years spent in the consideration of Magritte 's art . |
| 25 | Fully one-third of the marketable federal debt is rolled over in any year ; half is rolled over every two years . |
| 26 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 27 | Reflecting on the parson 's fortitude in distress , his manifest care for his wife , and his humble acceptance of divine will , Agnew had felt a sense of shame that his original impulse had been clouded by the passing years . |
| 28 | Bourdieu 's articles on markets preceded by a few years his pieces on ‘ fields ’ . |
| 29 | Have you heard of the Thirty Years War ? |
| 30 | Assuming that the contributions are made during the five years the child is at a fee-paying school the difference in total cost works out at £43,000 at an investment return of 13 per cent , compared with £58,320 at 8.5 per cent . |