Example sentences of "in [det] years [be] " in BNC.

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1 The impression conveyed by Wilfrid 's career in these years is of a Church still very dependent in the pursuit of its own interests , certainly in territories outside Canterbury 's sphere of influence , on the unpredictable inclination of the princes with whom it had to deal .
2 ( His claim to fame in these years was the slogan ‘ Kleenex Kitchen Towels mops up like a sponge ’ for client Kimberley Clark . )
3 Such identity and unity as she possessed in these years was essentially the identity and unity of a system of power , though one beginning to decay .
4 While the impact of renewed foreign contacts on both politics and the economy in these years was considerable , the growing power struggle within the country postponed any substantive attempt to resolve the issue of foreign relations on a long-term basis .
5 Dramatic as the change in the system was , its actual contribution to the royal war-effort in these years was less impressive .
6 His command of argot acquired in these years was impressively demonstrated in translations of Raymond Queneau ( 1950 ) and Georges Simenon ( 1955 ) .
7 The change through which schools moved in those years was no less dramatic than that .
8 What was quite decisively determined in those years was the place of film within the respective national cultures and indeed within the even more extensive world-wide English-speaking culture .
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