Example sentences of "in [art] last years " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also cared in the last years of her career . |
| 2 | Despite his notoriety during the Cultural Revolution , Chen even secured a limited rehabilitation in the last years of his life and was allowed to do historical research at the Literature and History Museum in Peking . |
| 3 | ( William and Dorothy Wordsworth rented Racedown in the last years of the eighteenth century . ) |
| 4 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 5 | It would seem fair to conclude that while for the bulk of the population Hitler 's image was no doubt related in an abstract fashion to finding a ‘ solution to the Jewish Question ’ , this was an issue which people either gave little thought to or deliberately turned their minds from , and that , correspondingly , Hitler 's public attacks on the Jews were something absorbed with little deliberation , forming no central part in explaining either the high peaks of his popularity or the collapse of the ‘ Führer myth ’ in the last years of the war . |
| 6 | One was the absence of faction round an heir to the throne old enough to provide a focal point for political opposition , The only exception came in the last years of James III ; in 1488 , in the second and final crisis of his reign , his opponents could use his fifteen-year-old son , the future James IV , as their figurehead . |
| 7 | A prophetic warning came from Canon Hensley Henson in his pamphlet Cui Bono ? , published in the last years of the century . |
| 8 | From Jacob 's correspondence it is clear that he knew little of Modigliani 's life in the last years . |
| 9 | This sort of nonsense could have been fairly innocuous had it not been for the fact that under Napoleon I , the frequent employment of courtiers in great and influential offices of state had led to a gradual isolation of the Emperor , which in turn gave too much power to those close to the throne , many of whom , it should be noted , actively worked against him in the last years of the reign . |
| 10 | A fascinating example of the dehistoricization of history is provided by the two novels published to date by the poet Roberto Pazzi , Cercando l'imperatore ( Looking for the Emperor 1985 ) and La principessa e il drago ( The Princess and the Dragon 1986 ) , both set in the last years of Tsarist Russia . |
| 11 | Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life . |
| 12 | Incomprehensibly , there seem to be as many spotters now in the days of dull diesels and anonymous electrics as there were when we were train-spotters in the last years of steam and the trains bore names like Bihar and Orissa , Baroda , Indore , Drake , Camperdown , and Barfleur , names redolent of history and tradition , summoning up fragrant images of far-off places and the martial rattle of distant centuries . |
| 13 | This came to dominate in the last years of the century . |
| 14 | In the main cities , the early primitive stations were replaced by grandiloquent specimens in the last years of the nineteenth century and in the decade before the First World War . |
| 15 | Elsewhere , railways in the last years of the century became an inseparable feature of the ambitions of a self-confident age . |
| 16 | Empire Day in the last years before the Great War was described as celebrated with a procession led by the Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry through gaily decorated streets . |
| 17 | But it was Arsenal , where Chapman had spent his longest period as manager , who held the limelight in the last years of peace . |
| 18 | This is a truth that Dick Lucas and the Proclamation Trust in London have effectively and consistently brought to the church in the last years . |
| 19 | Although he did not master the Russian language during his stay at the Frunze Military Academy in the last years of Stalin , thirty years later Ceauşescu revealed a fine grasp of the vocabulary of Stalinist architecture . |
| 20 | The last is usually to be regretted but there have been occasions when long-standing marital unhappiness was resolved by admission to residential care in the last years . |
| 21 | In concluding this chapter , I return to the more general theme of the balance in the last years of life between dependence and independence . |
| 22 | It shows , unequivocally , that many men in the last years of their lives do assume roles and perform tasks which have been traditionally associated with women , and it is clear that a substantial number do so with skill and tenderness . |
| 23 | He had nothing to fear from a Council , and Anselm was able to hold two Councils in the last years of his life ; the first of these in 1102 was certainly the high point in his activity as archbishop . |
| 24 | The impressive energy with which France has been building and renovating museums as well as adding to their collections since 1981 — the year François Mitterrand became President and Jack Lang his Minister of Culture — actually began in the last years of the previous Centre Right administration . |
| 25 | Mary 's reign witnessed a spontaneous renewal of enthusiasm for the local celebrations banned under Edward , and Corpus Christi processions , Whitsun ales , May games , and the decking of churches once more became as common as they had been in the last years of Henry 's reign . |
| 26 | The heavy congregational and denominational petitioning in the last years of slavery suggests this ; so does the image of ranks of black-coated nonconformist ministers at the antislavery conventions of the 1830s . |
| 27 | David Scott , for example , told one of his Angus constituents in the last years of the eighteenth century , when refusing his request for patronage , that he was |
| 28 | A new generation of nobles who were not to taste the sweetness of military success and knew only at second hand of the prestige and profits gained in the 1340s and 1350s led the opposition to the court in the last years of Edward III 's reign and during the reign of Richard II . |
| 29 | Gaunt showed consistent loyalty to his father and , after 1377 , to his young nephew Richard II , but he lacked the charismatic authority of his father and eldest brother , and he was widely if unfairly blamed for the misfortunes that befell England in the last years of his father 's reign . |
| 30 | In the last years of his life , became interested in AIDS . |