Example sentences of "the [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the 74 years of Communist dictatorship and the long period of Tsarist dictatorship before that , is it not essential to provide aid and assistance so that at long last Russia and the countries associated with the former Soviet Union can become stable democracies ? |
| 2 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 3 | At various stages over the eleven years , statements were made promising action . |
| 4 | The new exhibition comprises thirty-eight paintings with particular emphasis being placed upon those works which Caulfield has created in the eleven years since his retrospective held at the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool , and the Tate Gallery , in 1981–82 . |
| 5 | In conclusion , it was agreed that we ought not view social security legislation in isolation , but should consider the effects on the unemployed of this legislation and other legislation introduced during the eleven years of Tory government , such as housing , health , education . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His successors , during the seventy-five years after his death in 1725 , added Lithuania , parts of Poland and the Ukraine , Bessarabia , the Crimea and the Kuban region . |
| 8 | The seventy-five years preceding 1066 were a time of great activity in the Canterbury scriptorium , which produced a number of magnificently-illustrated gospel and service-books , as well as many more mundane volumes apparently intended to form a new cathedral library . |
| 9 | Also in demand for private and company charter hire such as conference and product launches , the one-time roadside diner and spring company board room accumulated some 400,000 miles in the eight years of operation since their ‘ second coming ’ in 1982 . |
| 10 | ‘ There is no precedent in living memory for the eight years of sustained growth and surging prosperity that Britain has enjoyed with this Conservative government . |
| 11 | He became increasingly authoritarian and reliant upon the army , which in turn led to the eight years of Amin 's rule , the Tanzanian invasion , Obote 's second government and ultimately the civil war in which Museveni took power . |
| 12 | It was typical of him that after serving as an assistant White House physician during the eight years of the Eisenhower Administration , he became restless after eight months with the more liberal Kennedy Administration and left the White House for service as a deputy surgeon with the Pacific Air Forces , becoming command surgeon of the 7th Air Force in South Vietnam . |
| 13 | In the pre-First World War days of two divisions , the top limit of transfer fees rose in the eight years from 1905 to 1913 from £1,000 to £2,500 , an increase of 150 per cent ; in the first eight years of three divisions ( 1920–28 ) they went up from £3,300 to £10,890 , an increase of roughly 230 per cent . |
| 14 | During the eight years I worked for Fred Workman he never lectured me on the practice or ethics of journalism , and in assigning me to a story he never told me what to do . |
| 15 | The spread of poverty in the eight years has strained the whole nation , and widened misery and disadvantage amongst the old and young . |
| 16 | THE COMMISSION of Investigation wishes to pay homage to you , in particular for your support to the Chadian people oppressed during the eight years of dictatorship of Hissein Habre . |
| 17 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 18 | Over the eight years of the project the reduction in inequality between different socio.economic groups was consequent upon an improvement in scores attained at the bottom end of the distribution and not the levelling down of those at the top . |
| 19 | The apparent casualness of the alliance , and the stormy passages of their wartime life in Berlin , did not alter the resolve with which Margaret Joyce was to stand by her difficult husband in the most onerous and tragic phases of the eight years of life which remained to him . |
| 20 | The initiative in convening meetings at intervals of every two or three months was taken by David Faulkner while an Under-Secretary at the Prison Department in 1981 , and continued during the eight years he was the Deputy Under-Secretary of State in charge of the Criminal and Statistical Departments and the Research and Planning Unit at the Home Office from 1982–90 . |
| 21 | Eliot 's life , for the eight years still left to him , now took on a different pattern . |
| 22 | Only sixteen Unionist MPs were baronets ( less than the number of Liberals , a testament to the eight years of Liberal government ) , and these were the owners of new wealth rather than old titles . |
| 23 | He had been a Housemaster at Cranleigh School , and then Headmaster of Dartford Grammar School in Kent for the eight years before his move to Stockport , and his arrival coincided with the departure of the record number of 69 entrants to University and 18 to Polytechnics and Colleges of Higher Education . |
| 24 | Most of the cost will at first be picked up at the federal level , but the BMFT will gradually reduce its share of financial support over the eight years . |
| 25 | ‘ People coming and going ’ were to provide Bischof 's subject matter in the eight years of life that remained to him after his meeting with Rosellina ; people in camps , people displaced by the Second World War and then by the regional wars that succeeded it , from Eastern Europe to Indochina , and from Scandinavia to Japan . |
| 26 | Instead he took the opportunity to read the files again and look at extracts from the visual record — films taken throughout the eight years of Kim 's stay within the Recruitment Project . |
| 27 | The eight years difference in age seems now |
| 28 | For all the eight years I attended school in Parma there was always the problem of where to eat the midday meal at that time no school in Italy provided lunches . |
| 29 | For the eight years of their marriage , the Beetons developed a partnership in which the personal and professional were intertwined . |
| 30 | Jackson was the first Presidential candidate , 1988 , to plead and repeat the plight of 650,000 American farmers losing their farms within the eight years of Reagan 's reign . |