Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the last decade of " in BNC.
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| 1 | An able and strong-minded intendant could enjoy during the last decade of the ancien régime a remarkable degree of autonomy and independent initiative . |
| 2 | This is the anti-socialist , specifically anti-Marxist bent of the elitist theory as it unfolds in the last decade of the nineteenth century ’ ( Meisel , 1958 , p. 10 ) . |
| 3 | Furthermore , in the great flowering of Viennese intellectual life which occurred in the last decade of the nineteenth century , the party contributed a galaxy of famous intellectuals — Karl Kautsky ( who , through his journal , Neue Zeit , and his role in the German party , became the most influential Marxist of his time ) , Victor Adler himself and his mentor , Carl Gruneberg , Max Adler , Otto Bauer , Rudolf Hilferding , Karl Renner etc . |
| 4 | It was a fine large house , built in the last decade of the nineteenth century of red brick and red tiles . |
| 5 | The contrast is striking , and can not be dismissed as irrelevant to the social and other problems that we confront in the last decade of our century . |
| 6 | Again , among Baptists , a survey of 248 new buildings erected in the last decade of the century shows that of the total , 60 per cent cost under £2,000 and 42 per cent cost under £1,000 . |
| 7 | The anxiety with which modern woman — the ‘ new woman ’ — was viewed in the last decade of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century is central to an analysis of these images presented by the New Sculpture exhibition ; this is not so much the over-emphasis upon the image of the ‘ femme fatale ’ which Glaves-Smith decries in the catalogue , but those ‘ clear gender constructions ’ which he maintains are ‘ far more subtle ’ ( although it is unclear from his text just what these constructions might be ) . |
| 8 | Plantagenet intervention against France in the Low Countries and the Empire was not to be revived until the last decade of the century . |