Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | One can not compare exactly the customs accounts from the two ports , because those for London ending in 1460 conclude at the end of July instead of the normal date of Michaelmas , so the second period employed in the comparison is that of the eleven years 1450–61 . |
| 2 | At the end of the thirteen years of Conservative rule , Britain was still an offshore island of the United States , but times were changing . |
| 3 | Jeff Ritcher , my choreographer , has spent most of the thirteen years he 's worked on me with his head in his hands crying with laughter or frustration . |
| 4 | I had a close look at that table , obviously a matter of some interest and that 's the reason I return to this , as I read the table , there is a very substantial amount of double counting within it , for this reason , that all outstanding er planning permissions are included once , and there are then separate categories of allowance for all types of sites , namely large windfalls , conversions , small sites , and allocated sites , those are all put in , er or most of them are put in at thirteen years worth , that being the remainder of the plan period to two thousand and six , it will not have escaped you that if you include thirteen years worth all the existing commissions are part of that thirteen years , and so simplest approach to correct that table would simply to discount the outstanding commitments , because they 're all counted again as part of the thirteen years , I do have a secondary point that the allowance for conversions is very much higher than what seems to be happening , and in what is in the tables that er Mr Thomas drew it to your attention from the York City er appendix eight , so that er on on two counts , but mainly the double counting one there is a great deal of er erm optimism , if I can call it that , in that table . |
| 5 | It 's an age when we feel but do n't think yet , but you did n't seem to have learnt a thing about either yourself or Jones in the whole of the six years since I saw you last . ’ |
| 6 | The world stockmarket hiccup of October 1987 pulled people up sharp and the malaise of the six years which followed gave plenty of time for reflection . |
| 7 | By the end of the six years Japan possessed a younger stock of machine tools than the United Kingdom or the United States : 40 per cent was less than five years old . |
| 8 | Having set up his kingdom Christ would withdraw to heaven , returning at the end of the thousand years . |
| 9 | In place of the aggressive approach of the early years of Surrealism itself , Barr 's commentary is in moderated phrases pointing to similarities between Surrealism and works firmly within the tradition of Western art : |
| 10 | Not that the eighties were without their problems : quite apart from the industrial recession of the early years , which affected all Railfreight 's bulk traffics to some degree or other , there was the historic miners ' strike of 1984–5 , taking heavy toll of steel as well as coal carryings . |
| 11 | The Sandys doctrine was a crystallization of the imponderables of the early years of the nuclear era . |
| 12 | The war and economic crisis has also brought a recognition of the need to consolidate the gains of the early years of the revolution , particularly to reinforce literacy . |
| 13 | From the toing and froing of the social exchanges of the early years , exchanges which are imbued with misperception and misattribution , children construct blueprints of their world and their place in it . |
| 14 | Then follows the wedding ceremony , marking the beginning of marriage proper and the myriad negotiations of the early years of married life . |
| 15 | But at Christ Church the antipathies of the early years of Lanfranc 's rule were ultimately , with whatever resentment and secret insubordination , reduced to more or less furtive disobedience . |
| 16 | The chaos of the early years meant that in Gilbert Seldes 's phrase ‘ any sort of fly-by-night production company ’ became a reasonable venture . |
| 17 | As an analysis of the nature of the child in the primary years and of the way children learn , the Plowden Report ranks as the most detailed study of the early years of schooling ever produced . |
| 18 | But the concern , in respect of the early years , is that we have never achieved consensus over what an appropriate early years curriculum should be ; besides which , provision is so varied nationally that some children are evidently disadvantaged from an early age . |
| 19 | Anxiety about in-law relationships , and evidence that some considerable adjustment can be necessary , is found also in Mansfield and Collard 's ( 1988 ) study of the early years of marriage . |
| 20 | The renewal , after the dreary state of the early years of the century , seemed a miracle in itself and was felt to be one . |
| 21 | The bitter lessons of the early years were learnt and digested ; crude though it may have been , Rome 's attitude towards its conquered peoples was far more effective than that of the nineteenth-century imperialists . |
| 22 | Many of the other highs of the early years are featured here ( ‘ Sth . |
| 23 | This success lies behind his translation to Canterbury in the following year ; thereafter , until his death in 1381 , he presided over a period of taxation the scale of which exceeded even that of the early years of the reign . |
| 24 | In the largest union , that of the St Petersburg metal workers , the Menshevik leadership of the early years was swept from office in 1913 . |
| 25 | This class was badly hit in the crisis of the early years of the century and , with recovery , it was outdistanced by a new and more enterprising group . |
| 26 | They are still arguing about the scientific theories of the early years of this century , like relativity and quantum mechanics . |
| 27 | Let us recap : intellectually and in terms of technical content town planning had not advanced all that much since the remarkable flowering of the early years of the century . |
| 28 | The in-depth standard history of the early years is Webster , C. ( 1988 ) , The Health Services since the War , Vol. 1 , London : HMSO . |
| 29 | She wrote verse of a disillusioned and morbid character , echoing her own sense of neglect , for the passionate love of the early years had turned to disenchantment . |
| 30 | An alternative system , introduced in some areas in the late 1960s , is the three-tier system , of lower ( or first ) , middle and upper schools , based on the idea that the age of 8 , 9 or even 10 was a more appropriate time for children to make the transition between the informal teaching of the early years and the more formal subject teaching offered later . |