Example sentences of "in these year [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This is a comment not just on poetic style , but on the substance of the political alternative that Tate and some fellow Southerners were in these years trying to put together , to challenge the industrial capitalism of the restored Union .
2 Tyndall did not in these years hold forth on glaciers at the RI , but on 13 May 1870 Canon Henry Moseley ( father of an eminent zoologist , and grandfather of an eminent physicist ) gave a Discourse on the descent of glaciers .
3 The uncertain nature of political alignments in these years made it inevitable , then , that a National Government would come under serious consideration as a remedy for Britain 's ills .
4 All pupils in these years follow a general familiarisation course in computer applications timetabled for one period each week .
5 But at no point in these years did the Armed Forces take the initiative in resolving political disputes and at no stage was it brought into intrigue by discontented Party factions ( exempting , of course , the First Secretary himself ) .
6 The part played by the nobility in the debates about taxation in these years has never been satisfactorily analysed , but it appears that the initiative lay almost entirely with the commons .
7 The diaries and memoirs of those who worked closely with de Gaulle in these years give the impression that his gradual disengagement from the RPF ( which began in 1951 and was not complete until 1954 ) was not only more protracted but also more painful than his disengagement from the provisional government in January 1946 .
8 Alfonso II , himself a troubadour and patron of troubadours , was in these years bidding fair to become " Emperor of the Pyrenees " .
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