Example sentences of "that [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also served to show that the Hundred Years War was no longer simply a conflict between England and France : others were being caught up in it , too . |
| 2 | It is customarily assumed that the five years and eight months between the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany in September 1939 and the final collapse of that power in May 1945 was an epoch of ever-increasing radicalism , both for the British electorate and for the Labour Party itself . |
| 3 | Contrast this with the words of a House of Lords Select Committee considering exactly the same problem : ‘ because of the high proportion [ of homes with polluted tapwater ] and the long-standing nature of the problem , the Committee believe that the two years for compliance with the Directive is wholly unrealistic . ’ |
| 4 | There is no doubt in my mind that the many years spent wrestling indifferent cars around the track , trying to make up for what Lauda calls the ‘ evil ’ that dwells in all of them , must take its toll . |
| 5 | It can not be entirely coincidental that the following years witnessed the heightening of tensions which threatened to divide Oswiu 's kingdom from within . |
| 6 | An examination of the pressure pattern differences between cold and warm years showed that the warm years experienced intensified high-latitude ( 50–70° N ) westerlies , greater cyclonic activity in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the eastern hemisphere , and a westward displacement of the Siberian high during winter . |
| 7 | Certainly the Athenians were technically justified in accepting the neutral Corcyra as an ally , despite Corinthian claims that the Thirty Years Peace provisions about neutrals did not envisage their being enrolled by one side to the intended detriment of the other ( as if international treaties usually have anything to say about the future state of mind of the signatories ! |
| 8 | A fundamental principle of that counsel is that chronological age should not be used as a proxy for biological fitness and that the advanced years of the patient do not relieve physicians of the responsibility of assessing cardiac , respiratory , metabolic , and cerebral reserve . |
| 9 | Mindful of his compatriot , Hemi Taylor , one of three New Zealanders playing no.8 for first-class clubs in South Wales , McIntosh concedes that the six years of continuous residence demanded of Tony Copsey and Rupert Moon was perhaps too stringent . |
| 10 | It must be remembered , too , that the early years of the revolution saw a great demand for labour in order to rebuild the economy and , also , to fill the immense gap left by the departing middle class . |
| 11 | There was speculation about how seriously the committee would heed and take account of the overwhelming consensus that the early years are the seedcorn of the future , and that , commensurately , investment of the proper magnitude would have to be made to reflect that , and , also , to bring the UK in line with a number of other European countries , as far as provision is concerned ( Moss 1988 ) . |
| 12 | We 've also remembered again the sometimes potent hurts of time gone by , realising that the passing years do not always lay to rest the stretched emotional reactions which those experiences once forced upon us . |
| 13 | Lloyd believed that the lean years at the end of Sobers ' tenure were the result of an unprofessional approach , with not enough thought given to the problems ; under Kanhai this improved somewhat , but after he had failed to beat Denness 's team the job was given to Lloyd . |
| 14 | In the current financial year budgets what authorities would have spend in delivering services , not what the Welsh office consider they should spend , were two thousand six hundred and eighty eight million pounds and against that the next years settlement which we 're debating tonight , represents only a point six percent increase . |
| 15 | His second wife 's correspondence with Cromwell suggests that the last years of his life were marked by an acute awareness of his unpopularity in the north and financial problems arising from his dependence on his father . |
| 16 | And you can not stop there , because I find it impossible to interpret the Act as meaning that the three years are to run from that date . |
| 17 | The defective article might still be in the manufacturer 's possession three years after the date of manufacture , and he might sell it later , but no one would have the hardihood to suggest that the three years ' limitation had already cut off all right of action before he had sold it . |
| 18 | Whether or not the 19705 may be considered relatively uninhibited in its sexual atmosphere , there is no doubt that the earlier years of the twentieth century were a good deal more inhibited . |
| 19 | That is understandable , given the desire of those agencies to ascertain that the 3 years or more spent in higher education lead to some definite outcome . |
| 20 | I know that the teenage years I describe are years when feelings about your self-image are more intense than any other , and I wanted to give young women themselves the chance to express what these feelings are . |
| 21 | The Bank 's other defence is that some of its recent studies on Africa — of which there are horribly many — suggest that the closing years of the 1980s did indeed see stronger growth and lower inflation in the countries it lent to . |
| 22 | This in part reflected the conviction of nineteenth-century experts that the later years of life were a stage of general physical and mental deterioration . |
| 23 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 24 | That may seem anything but recent , but remember that a million years is a relatively insignificant span of time compared with the age of the Earth , at present reckoned at about 4,600 million years . |
| 25 | ( Calculations show that a million years ago it shone as much the brightest star in the sky , and equalled Venus ; it was closer to us then than it is now . ) |
| 26 | Congregationalists , for example , noted in their Year Books from 1898 to 1901 that they had installed 144 new organs ; as early as 1873 William Shepherdson , a Member of the College of Organists , reminded Nonconformists that a hundred years before , organs ‘ were beyond the reach of small Churches , while as to Chapels … the placing of an organ … would have been regarded as an act of profanation . ’ |
| 27 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 28 | It is not surprising that a few years later , in 1911 , Grahame was to introduce ‘ Mouse ’ to his beloved Cornwall — and especially Fowey — before the boy began school . |
| 29 | Vincent said that a few years ago watch batteries had to be renewed every year . |
| 30 | In our July 18 issue we published an article about Olympic silver medallist , Linford Christie , which suggested that a few years ago he was a violent troublemaker who was listed by the police as ‘ dangerous ’ . |