Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [art] [num ord] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The phenomenon had first been noticed in the last years of Victoria 's reign , among the new generation coming through who would be the new Edwardians and who would inherit the new century . |
| 2 | The KPP argument made sense , but they compromised this position by claiming that the Ukrainian and Silesian territories seized in the first years of independence should also be returned to their respective ‘ owners ’ . |
| 3 | A fascinating example of the dehistoricization of history is provided by the two novels published to date by the poet Roberto Pazzi , Cercando l'imperatore ( Looking for the Emperor 1985 ) and La principessa e il drago ( The Princess and the Dragon 1986 ) , both set in the last years of Tsarist Russia . |
| 4 | Even HG Wells might not have believed in the last years of the 20th century , plans were being laid to walk across the Martian south pole . |
| 5 | And the fact is that with the money available erm the Gardener Centre I should think it 's not possible to use it in the kind of flexible way in which it was planned in the first years . |
| 6 | A prophetic warning came from Canon Hensley Henson in his pamphlet Cui Bono ? , published in the last years of the century . |