Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | Take the latest ‘ History of the Soviet Union ’ for children in the final two years of school , which my son , Benjamin , brought home the other day . |
2 | In the final sad years of the S&D , it vividly shows how the Western Region inexorably killed off the line and how Norman and his station staff were at the forefront of the fight to save the route . |
3 | Basic and clinical sciences would be interwoven during the course , but with the clinical sciences predominating in the final three years . |
4 | Bicester 's opponents are Bradford Salem , the side who beat them in the final last year . |
5 | It would be truer to say that the regime which enters the war is usually discredited at the war 's end , probably because of its supposed lack of adequate provision for the armed forces in the final pre-war years . |
6 | In the 1991 New Year Honours List , Mr W J Chignell , an Elected Member of Central Council , became a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire , and Mr E F Jackson from the Storrington Branch was awarded the British Empire Medal . |
7 | He was awarded the MBE in the 1991 New Year 's Honour list and was Vice-Chairman of the British Athletics Federation and Chairman of the Northern Irish Federation . |
8 | That figure is true as regards loans made in the 1991 fiscal year , and means 69% ( worth $1.8 billion ) of the contracts were won by non-Japanese companies . |
9 | Independent working-class activity in West Ham , most notably through trade unions , cooperation and political representation , coupled with an ineffective Tory/Liberal opposition , laid the foundations for Labour 's accession to power in the immediate postwar years . |
10 | There were times — notably in the immediate postwar years and during the early 1970s — when it seemed that the gap between the two halves of the country was beginning to narrow ( Damesick and Wood , 1987 ) , but with the benefit of hindsight it is seen that these were periods when special factors were operating ( McCrone , 1969 ; Massey , 1979 ) . |
11 | A third , more general topic , is an assessment of Lord Balogh 's impact on economic policy both as an unofficial adviser to the Labour Party in the immediate postwar years and as an official adviser in the 1960s . |
12 | The welfare systems introduced in the immediate postwar years built on previous achievements . |
13 | By the mid-1920s they no longer had the harsh appearance that they had developed in the immediate pre-war years … |
14 | The main focus of pacifist activity in the immediate pre-war years was the naval race with Germany . |
15 | In the immediate pre-war years , as working-class protest resumed , the parties created by the revolutionary intelligentsia enjoyed something of a revival . |
16 | The strike record in the immediate pre-war years is difficult to reconcile with the notion that workers ' protest was becoming less intense . |
17 | Nor does the evidence of a renewed upsurge of potentially revolutionary protest from below in the immediate pre-war years suggest that this source of their inhibition would fade with time . |
18 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
19 | In the immediate post-war years the special relationship almost collapsed . |
20 | There were many theories , but the clouded crystal of the future was almost opaque in the immediate post-war years . |
21 | In the immediate post-war years , the Minister of Defence had been little more than the co-ordinator of the three autonomous Service Ministries and the Ministry of Supply . |
22 | They frequently attempted to reduce the basic wage of workers and to reduce the cost of living addition which had been paid throughout the war and in the immediate post-war years . |
23 | Even the most cursory of examinations of the minutes of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party indicates the feverish activity which was occurring in the immediate post-war years and , in these early days , it was to be expected that mistakes would be made and that new directions would be sought . |
24 | But here is the first full account of Stockhausen 's childhood in the war — his mother , a depressive , was a victim of the Nazis ' ’ euthanasia policy ’ — and of his gravitation towards Darmstadt as the centre of world music in the immediate post-war years . |
25 | Thus , in the immediate post-war years the WEA came under considerable pressure from two more powerful providers and doubts were raised about its future as a recognised Responsible Body — an issue which was closely addressed by the Ashby Committee in 1953 , and again raised by the Russell Committee some twenty years later . |
26 | The London County Council , for long a stronghold of the Labour party , was one of the relatively few authorities to press firmly in this direction in the immediate post-war years . |
27 | Interestingly enough , concern both about resource conservation and cruelty was embodied in the immediate post-war years in one man , a Scotsman , Dr Harry Lillie . |
28 | When the Marxist Left and the radical Right emerged in the 1970s there was one point on which they were agreed : that many of the seeds of decline were planted in the immediate post-war years . |
29 | Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years . |
30 | Recruits to the Scottish field staff in the immediate post-war years were J. K. Allan , D. Haldane , J. Knox , A. G. MacGregor , J. Phemister , G. Ross and J. B. Simpson . |