Example sentences of "[vb pp] during [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Debt that was amassed during the go-go years of the 1980s remains high while confidence remains low . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The recording was made during the darkest years of the Depression and reduced strings were used ; this tells at the opening of the finale but is hardly noticeable elsewhere . |
| 11 | These ‘ triangle centres ’ tend to fetch high prices among collectors , because they are pretty safe guarantees that the disc in question was actually manufactured during the golden years of rock ‘ n ’ roll , and is not a more modern pressing . |
| 12 | It was obviously written as encouragement to the soldiers and families separated during the long years of the Second World War , but it seemed to express the yearning that so many young men must have felt when they were far from their families , desolate and frightened : |
| 13 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 14 | Compared with the Privy Council of Elizabeth 's reign it was a large body : 183 councillors attended during the twenty-five years of the reign and sometimes more than forty were present at a single meeting . |
| 15 | A very considerable number of sub-licences which were normally for a period of six to 12 months were granted during the relevant years of assessment and the aggregate profit therefrom during these years amounted to some HK$57m . |
| 16 | It underlines the problem of trying to replace the Najibullah regime with a broad-based , freely-elected government , the sort that the West envisaged during the nine years of Russian occupation . |
| 17 | If such knowledge and techniques were readily available in pre-war years then it is obvious that the same techniques were known about and used during the inter-war years . |
| 18 | Indeed , this lack of distinctiveness owed something to the changes which had occurred during the inter-war years . |
| 19 | In the latter union these changes ‘ were less a surrender of power to the shopfloor than a formal accommodation to the reality of decentralisation which had occurred during the post-war years ’ ( Hyman , 1983 , p. 42 ) . |
| 20 | Now , we readily recognize , Congress , that there 's immense prestige attached to this initiative for the G M B and over two hundred activists will have jointly participated during the two years of its existence . |
| 21 | Teachers and students alike are governed , by and large , by people born during the inter-war years , when the Spanish Civil War and appeasement were the great issues . |
| 22 | In that development there was to be found during the twenty years of his chairmanship no place for industrial democracy such as the admission of self-governing producers ' co-operatives would have admitted . |
| 23 | Three unsuccessful bills against occasional conformity were introduced during the early years of Anne 's reign , culminating in the famous attempt in 1704 to tack the third bill on to a Land Tax Bill . |
| 24 | In conclusion , it was agreed that we ought not view social security legislation in isolation , but should consider the effects on the unemployed of this legislation and other legislation introduced during the eleven years of Tory government , such as housing , health , education . |
| 25 | What is it about the changes that occur in a crossroads period that mark them out as structural changes , distinct from the movement and change experienced during the intervening years ? |
| 26 | The government has paid for the restructuring of the Villahermosa Palace to house the collection ; it is guaranteeing any short-fall in the running costs after entrance fees are collected ; it is paying $6 million rent a year , index-linked , for the collection ; it has introduced an indemnity scheme to cover the works of art , and has given the Baron and Baroness the last word on how the collection is to be administered during the ten years of the loan , at the end of which the collection is handed back , with exemption from Spain 's otherwise very restrictive art export laws . |
| 27 | I do not think that it is in any way insulting to say that the epithet , ’ Clyde-built ’ , which was a badge of quality in the last century , was getting somewhat tarnished during the post-war years . |
| 28 | Orwell 's general contention is clearly correct — inequalities of wealth and income persisted and remained marked during the inter-war years . |
| 29 | Propaganda of this kind was particularly marked during the Seven Years War , and spread the idea of a trade balance which must be defended against the excessive strength of Britain just as the territorial balance in Europe must be safeguarded from the overgrown influence of any continental State . |
| 30 | It launched a hydrocarbon-insoluble liquid polysulphide polymer ( tradenamed LP ) in 1935 , which is used to seal fuel tanks , and rapid expansion followed during the postwar years . |