Example sentences of "years [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faced with such an upward price trend it is hardly surprising that historians have tended to present the war years as a time of deteriorating living standards . |
| 2 | The Dwarfs refer to the following five hundred years as the time of the Goblin Wars , as Dwarfs and Goblins fight for possession of the old Dwarf empire . |
| 3 | But during the two years between the time when the book was first mooted and its publication in 1982 , the company had transformed itself and the book did not reflect the grander style of living which Laura was now espousing . |
| 4 | ‘ … for many years after the time named in this Ramble , Great College Street — beyond the terrace of houses extending to the entrance of Messrs. Goodall 's existing premises — was totally impassable even as a footpath in the winter . |
| 5 | So , the appearance of the story during the period when many legends were being interwoven is 200 years after the time of Godiva and her husband Leofric , c . |
| 6 | In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's been terrible watching the change in this country over the past 20 years from a time when the consensus was that the public good was what mattered , to today when people only care about shopping . |
| 8 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 9 | In matters of this kind we are often considering a span of 15–20 years from the time when it is first apparent that an old person can not ‘ carry on as before ’ to the time of death . |
| 10 | Claims for restitution have to be made however ( a ) within three years from the time when the claimant knew or ought reasonably to have known of the location , or the identity of the possessor of the object , and ( b ) in any case within a period of thirty years from the time of the theft . |
| 11 | Claims for restitution have to be made however ( a ) within three years from the time when the claimant knew or ought reasonably to have known of the location , or the identity of the possessor of the object , and ( b ) in any case within a period of thirty years from the time of the theft . |
| 12 | I trust we shall be back in two years from the time we left England … |
| 13 | However , if the right is not commercially exploited within 15 years of the creation of the topography , the right expires 15 years from the time the topography was first recorded in a design document or the time when an article was first made to the design , whichever is the earlier . |
| 14 | Where any power to revoke or determine can not be exercised within six years from the time when any particular property first becomes comprised in the settlement , the subsection does not apply to income arising under the settlement from that property , or from property representing that property , so long as the power can not be exercised . |
| 15 | ‘ a motor vehicle , namely a … to which section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 applied and ’ Section 47 applies to all motor vehicles first used more than three years before the time at which it is proved to have been actually used on the road for the purpose of the present offence . |
| 16 | In primary school the qualifying exam had been talked of for at least two years before the time came , yet I have no memory of when it did , only that our last term was punctuated with little exams and on two occasions we had something quite new to do : intelligence tests . |
| 17 | A useful starting point is to go back twenty years to a time when computers were still huge , unfriendly devices demanding air-conditioned environments and costing millions . |
| 18 | The first dates back two and a half thousand years to the time when the Persians were at war with the Egyptians . |
| 19 | In order to fully understand an alarm reaction it is useful to think back many thousands of years to the time of the caveman . |
| 20 | The important thing that we must do is look ahead 20 years to the time when those of us who are , I hope , still active in politics will be asked difficult questions . |
| 21 | He also keeps the same brigade for years at a time because staff turnover in contract catering is not as rapid as in hotels and restaurants . |
| 22 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 23 | Often they are left unused for years at a time , except , that is , for all those informal human activities , like adventure play , gypsy encampments , bonfires , dumping rubbish , and grazing goats , that are not allowed where the grass is mown and the trees are carefully planted . |
| 24 | Though a particular district might remain untouched for years at a time , there was always disease somewhere on the island . |
| 25 | Even in their heyday they had been fluid entities which could be dormant in specific areas for years at a time , but the decline at the turn of the century was much more widespread than earlier fluctuations . |
| 26 | The eggs of most species are small , and although they do not contain a large supply of nutrients they remain viable for years at a time , mainly because the tiny embryo is in a resting state . |
| 27 | There is undoubtedly some truth in this ; the nobility frequently sent proxies to parliament in these years ; they were too preoccupied with war to have any reason for opposing the king in parliament , and their independent campaigns on the continent took some of them away from England for several years at a time . |
| 28 | But so physically restricted was the Calais area , and so often was it under French pressure , that for long years at a time all the needs of the garrison , whether in provisions or materials , had to be shipped in from England . |
| 29 | This is a full-time appointment , and in most universities a permanent one , though some ( notably Oxford , Cambridge and London ) elect their vice chancellor for a period of several years at a time . |
| 30 | Despite the jokes about it , the Bishop 's Castle Railway served the town and the district well for seventy years at a time when transport ( rapid by the standards of the day ) was becoming ever more important . |