Example sentences of "[prep] the years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statistics for the years 1975 to 1987 show an 18 per cent drop in the number of visitors to the palaces , while the National Trust has seen a 48 per cent rise . |
| 2 | Only two years earlier the Twelve had battled at epic length over increasing the EC budget for the years to 1992 from 0.7 per cent of each member state 's gross national product to nearly 1.2 per cent , with the ceiling fixed at over £30 billion . |
| 3 | Given the state of the war , the undeniable growth of anti-Nazi feeling , and the rising criticism of Hitler himself , which we have been able to document for the years 1942–4 , such reports can hardly have been an accurate reflection of existing attitudes . |
| 4 | The balance of Lady Antonia 's very long and extremely well-researched book reflects this exactly ; she devotes 75 pages to the period of Mary 's personal rule from 1561–5 , compared to 137 for the years 1565–8 and 81 for 1586–7 . |
| 5 | ’ This statement is certainly invalid for the years after 1730 when labouring poets became more prominent . |
| 6 | Beatrix Potter 's journal for the years 1881 – 1897 spans her life between the ages of fifteen and thirty . |
| 7 | Comparable figures are available only for the years 1984 and 1988 . |
| 8 | A discography for the years 1968–71 , compiled by Harry Hawke , occurs later in this book and lists some of the better dance records of the time . |
| 9 | For the years 1984–6 , the statistical authorities have published ( Indeks , 1987 , nos. 3 and 9 ) the values of exports and imports both according to the traditional method and in terms of current dinars , i.e. at the rates of exchange ruling at the time of the export or import of the goods . |
| 10 | However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years . |
| 11 | Ways must be found to provide women with additional pension protection for the years of domestic responsibility when they are caring for children , handicapped or elderly relatives . |
| 12 | The RSPB has recently completed a commissioned study of losses of rough grazing in the LFAs based on an analysis of MAFF and DAFS returns at parish level for the years 1946 , 1951 , 1961 , 1971 , 1976 and 1981 . |
| 13 | That is why they 're able to go for these very precise figures of public spending , scientific precision about estimates for the years ahead and then say , ‘ All argument hereafter ceases . |
| 14 | A joint commission of the FA and Football League ordered the accounts for the years 1916 to 1918 to be produced in evidence , and when these were not forthcoming expelled the club from the League . |
| 15 | As breeding birds Little Grebes appear surprisingly scarce , the records for the years 1970 to 1976 indicate a population of less than 100 pairs . |
| 16 | However , K. G. Ridgewell has supplied some records for the years 1929 to 1939 for roughly 64,000 acres ( 256 sq . |
| 17 | All the children , from the eldest , Elizabeth , down to Thomas Walter , appear in the diary which Green kept , extant for the years 1802–5 , 1806–8 , 1814–21 . |
| 18 | I knew a family of five devoted daughters — all married — who took it in turns , when their father died , to stay with their widowed mother night and day , on a rota basis , for the years until she died , because they knew that she would not want to leave her own home . |
| 19 | It was natural , but unreasonable , to feel guilt for what seemed like a failure in duty , rather than feel thankful for the years of unremitting and unselfish care that they had been able to give . |
| 20 | Poland 's claim to Danzig was part of the mythologising in which the new state indulged , part of its creative compensation for the years of partition . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , I was given no monies , no form of compensation for the years of labour , of struggle , no consideration for being a pioneer of the business — which today is one of Glasgow 's best-known firms in the field of print and stationery . |
| 22 | Table 3.5 shows the numbers-of males and females unemployed for the years 1977–85 . |
| 23 | I would give him companions for the years to come . |
| 24 | For Rosemarie and Bob Ray , from Eastbourne in Sussex , it was a stunning reward for the years they 'd spent encouraging and supporting Fiona , who 's the youngest of their four children . |
| 25 | Second , an understanding of doubt helps us to prepare for the years of testing which , I think , are to come . |
| 26 | As we now contemplate our strategy for the years ahead , let us never forget that they are the people who sit huddled outside , waiting for us to get it right . ’ |
| 27 | For the years 1977/78 to 1978/79 the taxpayer was assessed to tax under Sch D Case I , Sch D , Case VI , under s 488 , TA 1970 , and capital gains tax rules . |
| 28 | In a covering letter sent with the assessments , the inspector indicated that once the returns for the years were submitted , the taxpayer 's claim that he had been incorrectly assessed more than once would be accepted . |
| 29 | The General Commissioners found that the taxpayer had wilfully refused to submit tax returns for the years 1988/89 and 1989/90 despite the receipt of a notice under s 8 , TMA 1970 to deliver the returns . |
| 30 | In the lower court , the Lord Ordinary had found that s 6 of the Act did not prevent the Crown from seeking a decree de plana for recovery , in October 1989 , of the tax outstanding for the years 1979/80 to 1981/82 . |