Example sentences of "in [art] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sixteen years since , it has sold 75,000 copies , and people are still finding it helpful , and I myself often take a chapter for meditation , when my own spirit feels low and dry . |
| 2 | The monk Ippen ( 1239 to 1289 ) travelled all over Japan in the sixteen years before his death , and his journeys , his life and ideas ( he was also the founder of an Amida-Buddhist school ) were documented by one of his brothers in the twelve illustrated scrolls completed in 1299 . |
| 3 | This was a formidable programme for a king whose father had been defeated and captured by the English only eight years earlier , and who had agreed to a treaty which conceded a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward III ; but in the sixteen years of his reign Charles achieved each one of these objects except the last , and even though he did not attack and destroy England , French and Castilian naval raids along the south coast induced a sense of panic and defensiveness unknown in England since the very earliest months of the war . |
| 4 | So far had music come in the sixteen years since Palestrina 's death . |
| 5 | In the 80 years since the aeroplane first appeared in the county , it has brought a great deal of pleasure and prosperity . |
| 6 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 7 | It claims that in the five years to the end of 1988 Pearl 's new annual premium business rose by an average of 3.7 per cent a year against a UK market average of 13 per cent a year . |
| 8 | In the five years 1934 — 8 an average total of 335,000 houses was built each year in Great Britain . |
| 9 | In the five years up to the end of April , 1950 , the post-war housing programme had provided 686,018 permanent houses and flats in Great Britain . |
| 10 | In the five years after 1928 , the Criterion printed little anthropological writing . |
| 11 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 12 | BR investment is forecast at £5 billion in the five years to March 1994 , about double the rate of the past five years . |
| 13 | The recent excesses of the financial world inevitably invite comparisons with the 1930s , when share prices fell by two-thirds in the five years following the Great Crash of 1929 . |
| 14 | Comparing trends in cuts of meat for 1985 to 1990 with the changes in the five years before , the price of expensive beef cuts rose more than the cheaper cuts , reversing the trend of the early 1980s . |
| 15 | In the five years since , he has been world champion three times , but the British Open has eluded him . |
| 16 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 17 | For example , in the five years from 1981 to 1986 , 1 76 Albanian teachers , 11 Albanian professors , and 511 Albanian students were expelled from schools or universities in Kosovo , and 1,600 Albanians were expelled from the Party ( Danas , 11 February 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 19 | In the five years from 1980 to 1985 it plans to give food worth $140 million as wages for soil conservation work . |
| 20 | Jasny maintained that ‘ Instead of actually rising by 55 per cent in the five years from 1927/28 to 1932/33 , as provided in the approved version of the Five Year Plan , total farm output declined by 14 per cent between 1928 and 1933 . ’ |
| 21 | His article argued that nuclear-generated electricity could n't realistically replace oil and fossil fuels unless all nations built sixteen new reactors a week in the five years from 1995 , a programme impossible to achieve and one which , if practicable , would add intolerably to the nuclear threat . |
| 22 | In the five years I played with Mayall , there was Hughie Flint , Aynsley Dunbar , Micky Waller , Mick Fleetwood and then Keef Hartley . |
| 23 | But I must say , in the five years they were together I 've never seen Sarah so happy and contented . |
| 24 | In the five years to March 1992 , operating profits grew three-fold ( though they temporarily fell , by 15% last year , because of a collapse in industrial investment ) . |
| 25 | In the five years from 1966–71 maximum security prisons at Gartree ( opened 1966 ) , Albany and Long Lartin took their places alongside such grim old jails as Parkhurst , Wakefield and Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 26 | In the five years of Labour Government , hospital waiting lists increased by nearly half . |
| 27 | In the five years since coming to the throne in 1553 , Mary had vented her hatred of Protestantism upon her subjects and had tried — against their will — to force the clock back . |
| 28 | They say the stage is a respectable profession nowadays , well maybe it is , but I ca n't think it 's changed all that much in the five years since I left . |
| 29 | At the same time a Medium Term Economic Assessment is prepared by the Treasury to show the anticipated resources available in the five years ahead . |
| 30 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ? |