Example sentences of "in the [adj -er] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This chapter attempts to answer these questions partly by reference to work in the field and in part through a review and analysis of works of fiction typically used as ‘ whole class readers ’ in the lower years of six secondary comprehensive schools and falls into two parts . |
| 2 | The second part of the chapter comprises a narrowing of the focus from arts education in general , to one area in particular , namely English lessons and the fictional literature typically offered to whole classes of pupils in the lower years of secondary schools ; the ‘ class reader ’ . |
| 3 | It is important to note here that although an analysis of individual texts follows , the point of this approach is to provide an overall picture of a pupil 's literary diet across a range of texts met in the lower years of the secondary school . |
| 4 | Germany is now paying a price few other countries would have accepted for not providing itself with better citizenship and immigration laws in the calmer years before unification . |
| 5 | In the later years of the Eighties a series of events and episodes has served to direct the attention of British readers to the issue of authorship and its autobiographical character or constituent . |
| 6 | This caused disquiet amongst Colonial officials and prompted Creech Jones , the Colonial Secretary in the later years of the Labour government , to circulate a memorandum to the Cabinet in early 1947 in which he said : ‘ I know full well how important it is that our overseas payments should be kept as low as they possibly can be , but I can not believe that this justifies a course which is contrary to our declared policy in regard both to Colonial and to commercial matters and contrary also to the policy which has long been pursued by the Labour Party . ’ |
| 7 | But above all , he would unreservedly acknowledge his profound indebtedness to the three tutors who were instrumental in the successful achievements in the later years of the decade : Douglas-Smith , Edmund Poole and Hampden Jackson . |
| 8 | She would as often as not weep during the song , and these were not glycerine tears , and they were not , except in the later years , produced to order . |
| 9 | The quality of life in the later years is often abysmal . |
| 10 | Grumble as they might about the Masai 's unbudging attachment to their traditional ways , many administrators , particularly in the later years , came to see that it had its advantages . |
| 11 | In the later years of the eighteenth century it was still usual to build factories near water ; the iron industry was similarly dispersed in a series of villages . |
| 12 | While enclosure came later to the Lake District than the southern parts of England , there is plenty of evidence of rural depopulation in the later years of the eighteenth century . |
| 13 | Though highly political in the later years of colonial rule , Mambo Leo was now largely apolitical , and its coverage of national affairs tended to be non-controversial . |
| 14 | With the restrictions firms accepted , industrial sales grew very slowly and , after falling in the later years of the War , did not again reach the 1943 level until 1949 . |
| 15 | In the later years , however , these issues were pitched at optimistically low interest rates : the last BEA issue , of £200 millions in August 1955 ( among the largest seen by the London market ) , was left largely in government hands . |
| 16 | The self-financing ratio was no higher in the later years of the period than at the beginning , though , without the pressure from the Ministry , it would no doubt have declined . |
| 17 | The provincial evening papers suffered a steady decline , steepest in the later years . |
| 18 | However , the variations in mortality between the developed and Third World in the later years of life are much less extreme . |
| 19 | In the later years of Henry VIII and in the reign of his successor the practice of selling seems to have grown and prices to have risen . |
| 20 | Secondly , the APU data suggest that this may well be a neglected area in the later years of secondary schooling both from an assessment viewpoint and in curriculum terms . |
| 21 | Before 1290 two successive chief justices of the King 's Bench were clerics , but the next two — from 1290 to 1307 — were laymen ; out of the fifteen judges of that court during Edward 's reign , eight were laymen , most of them in the later years . |
| 22 | I have already mentioned that the decisive electoral victory for the Labour Party in 1945 reflected a substantial shift of political and ideological alignment in the later years of the second world war , a radicalisation of which Calder ( 1969 ) gives an eloquent account . |
| 23 | Children were then allocated at random to the two remaining groups of adenoidectomy or no surgery in addition to unilateral insertion of ventilation tubes until June 1986 , thus accounting for the reduced numbers at follow up in the later years . |
| 24 | They were low in the later years partly because recruitment continued until 1986 and partly because of non-attendance . |
| 25 | Consequently he was not able to invest in improved mining techniques in the later years of his life . |
| 26 | Given that the numbers of eighteen-year-olds will decline sharply in the later years of the decade and assuming that the age participation rate shows no great increase , then there may well be spare capacity in the public sector institutions offering degree-level courses . |
| 27 | The working classes rarely travelled far , and if they did it was on foot or , in the later years of the century , by tram , ‘ the gondola of the working classes ’ . |
| 28 | In the later years of the dynasty there was a growing belief that the Queen of Sheba had visited Solomon in Jerusalem , had been seduced by him and borne him a son named Henelik , who founded the Abyssinian royal line . |
| 29 | With the latter , the payments are concentrated in the early years of their lives , while with the former , they are concentrated in the later years . |
| 30 | The designs differed from country to country , but the general trend was from geometrical shapes — circles , triangles , quatrefoils — in the earlier period , to curved flamboyant forms in the later years . |