Example sentences of "[adj] years " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own . |
| 32 | Lewes alone seems to have grown to any great importance in the pre-Conquest years . |
| 33 | Without the frequent and often detailed accounts in the Henley Standard — especially in the early , interesting years — I do not think this book could have been produced . |
| 34 | DESPITE THE flow of Helm county histories and other recent surveys of the county game through its 100-plus years , we have another , its offered raison d'être being a compulsion to relate the fame to ‘ the changing context of society at large ’ . |
| 35 | The results from our 1990 serum samples ( 34.8% of subjects of mean age 545.7 years were seropositive ) were similar to those of the cross sectional surveys . |
| 36 | Trick or treat , which is an American idea , which seems to have come er come over here over the past , ooh I do n't know , five tens years has n't it really ? |
| 37 | The median years for return to work for the next cohort , who had their first birth between 1975 and 1979 , is estimated to be only 3.7 years . |
| 38 | Duration of symptoms was at least one year in every patient ( mean 3.7 years ) . |
| 39 | What Mulliner 's book does not represent adequately is English church music during the agonizing years 1534–58 which saw Henry VIII 's pseudo-Reformation and dissolution of those musical strongholds , the monasteries ; the Protestant triumph and English liturgy of 1549 ; the Catholic reaction and Mary 's marriage to Philip of Spain ( who brought with him during 1554–5 his ‘ Flemish chapel ’ including Philipp de Monte and his organist Cabezon ) ; and the accession of Elizabeth I. Most of Taverner 's church music was probably written before this period , during the years 1526–30 when he was organist and choirmaster of Cardinal College ( now Christ Church ) , Oxford ; it includes eight Masses , three Magnificats , as well as shorter pieces . |
| 40 | Since I did n't know Jackie in his racing years , I can only speak of his character as I 've known it since I975 , a period by which he had already become obsessed with driver safety and a real force in improving conditions for drivers . |
| 41 | That was the start of the two most demanding years of her life . |
| 42 | Fred by Posy Simmonds LOUISE CHUNN ( mother of Charlie , 3 ¾ , and Alice , 1 ½ ) Bill 's New Frock , by Ann Fine ( Methuen , £6.95 ) Winner of Smarties Book Prize 89 ( 6-8 years category ) Bill 's an obliging little boy . |
| 43 | It found 70 per cent of those surveyed had never worked in the UK , 12 per cent had worked here for between one and ten years , 4 per cent for ten to 20 years , and 14 per cent for 20–40 years . |
| 44 | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 30 YEARS OF STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS |
| 45 | 30 years ago on Trinity Sunday , 28 May 1961 , the British Lawyer , Peter Beneson ( right ) started Amnesty International . |
| 46 | Sadly , one thing has not changed in 30 years : certain governments of the world still falsely imprison , torture and execute their citizens , regardless of internationally agreed standards that expressly forbid such abuses . |
| 47 | In Benenson 's words : ‘ The gradual change over the last 30 years in the public perception of the value of human life is a measure of Amnesty 's influence . |
| 48 | Mohamed Srifi , a literature student , was sentenced in 1977 to 30 years ’ imprisonment for advocating that Morocco become a socialist republic . |
| 49 | Sentenced to 30 years for his peaceful political views |
| 50 | Tell the King that you are concerned about the case of Mohamed Srifi , currently in Kenitra Central Prison , Casablanca , who was arrested in 1974 , tortured , brought to trial in 1977 and jailed for 30 years after a blatantly unfair trial . |
| 51 | ‘ It comes down to applying a judgement based on the background knowledge we 've acquired from 30 years of monitoring and reporting human rights ’ . |
| 52 | 30 YEARS OF LOCAL GROUPS ! |
| 53 | He is frequently described as ‘ having the stoop of an ageing crop-picker and the face of a curious little boy ’ — which may have been true 30 years ago , but now belongs to the discard-tray with other caricatures : caricatures , as Oscar Wilde observed , are compliments that mediocrity pays to genius . |
| 54 | ( Nearly 30 years after writing it Leonard was enthusiastically recommending our attendance at a Chagall exposition on Sherbrooke Street . ) |
| 55 | It has taken Warren Ogden nearly 30 years to compile the information on these machines which began in the mid 1950s . |
| 56 | The history of the past 30 years in brewing has been dominated by the emergence of a handful of giant national companies — Bass , Allied , Whitbread , GrandMet/Watney , Courage , and Scottish & Newcastle — driven by a need to maximise profit rather than concentrating on high quality products that also generate a good return . |
| 57 | It was founded in the late 700s , but most of its present buildings ( pastel-coloured and timbered , and punctuated with onion-dome towers ) date from the reconstruction in the late 1600s and 1700s , after the 30 years war . |
| 58 | ‘ Within 30 years the brewing industry has gone from a cottage industry to high tech . ’ |
| 59 | Our properties were here 30 years ago , the impact we have now comes from our staff . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ I 've visited Australia 's one and only organic wine producer at Mudgee where he 's been growing organically for 30 years . |