Example sentences of "were [vb pp] [prep] [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The allowances were varied over the years to take account of inflation , but were never particularly generous . |
| 2 | That the Gospels , for example , were written between the years 65 and 100 . |
| 3 | The ‘ old old ’ , i.e. those aged 85 and over , were born in the years 1890 — 1905 . |
| 4 | It may not be a coincidence , therefore , that four of the five individuals who developed leukaemia at ages 5–24 in Thurso in the years 1979–88 were incomers — and also that four were born in the years 1969–74 , the birth cohort with the greatest proportion of incomers . |
| 5 | ( The universities of Bath , Bradford , Brunel , Ireland , Loughborough , Salford , Sussex , Ulster , Warwick , and York have also supported geological research , but fewer than five theses were deposited in the years studied , and none were on Scottish subjects . ) |
| 6 | Needless to say , these measures proved effective , and Persian weavers went back to using natural dyes until the more reliable chrome dyes were introduced in the years between the First and Second World Wars . |
| 7 | The second theme would be the story of these new nations , the Germanic kingdoms whose foundations were laid during the years from about 400 to 600 ad . |
| 8 | Various such measures were enacted in the years prior to 1867 , though the most notable were to be enacted in the remaining decades of the century . |
| 9 | The forests were cleared over the years for a variety of reasons : because people were scared of wolves , which roamed the area well into the seventeenth century ; to make sure travellers could see robbers , before robbers saw them ; to provide timber for shipbuilding : trees were felled and floated downstream through Loch Tummel and the River Tay to Perth . |
| 10 | The walls of Caen were constructed in the years following Edward III 's capture of the town in 1346 ; those of Rouen were begun at the same time on the orders of Philip VI , making the city one of the few properly defended towns , or ‘ villes closes ’ of upper Normandy ; Avignon 's wall was started at the instigation of Pope Innocent VI about 1355 ; while the defences of Tours , in course of construction in 1356 , were probably sufficiently advanced to deter the Black Prince from attacking the town on his chevauchée in the summer of that year . |
| 11 | They were composed in the years of the Exclusion crisis , during which Locke 's patron , Shaftesbury , and others , sought to exclude James , then Duke of York , from the succession to the throne , and argued for government by consent and for the right to religious dissent . |
| 12 | The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion . |