Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] the [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 31 | The major challenge which has faced the Teacher Placement Service over the two years has been the issue of teacher release . |
| 32 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 33 | For owner-occupiers , on the other hand , the need to save for a deposit and other expenses , together with the relatively large mortgage payments in the early years means that two incomes are necessary for an extended period and therefore childbearing will be delayed . |
| 34 | This ‘ front-loading ’ of mortgage payments in the early years of the mortgage ( which very frequently coincides with the early years of marriage ) will tend to require two earners at that time . |
| 35 | Bill Brett , general secretary of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants , which includes air traffic controllers and transport safety inspectors declared his concern over the cuts in the safety inspectorate over the recent years , and growing pressure on overworked air traffic controllers coping with increased traffic . |
| 36 | Note that in order to qualify for this relief the donor must have owned the business asset for the two years immediately preceding the transfer ( ie the gift to the son ) . |
| 37 | If this method is based on initial capital costs , it strongly favours long-term projects ( say , over ten years ) against short-term ones and those with good cash receipts in the early years . |
| 38 | Increases in value included 403% for the European Fund and 268% for the Global Leisure Fund over the five years . |
| 39 | In non-metropolitan districts as a whole the rate of population growth in the first years of the 1980s was less than half what it had been a decade earlier , though again most of the fall preceded 1978 . |
| 40 | It is clearly birth rate which is central to any explanation of population trends during the inter-war years . |
| 41 | As a result , it is not easy to arrive it conclusions about the reasons for population trends during the inter-war years . |
| 42 | Unfortunately , the survival of tax records from the middle years of the century ( and more especially after 1450 ) is more patchy than from the period immediately before , so it is not always possible to trace the disappearance of villages at precisely the time when a substantial number of the desertions seems to have occurred . |
| 43 | To own a boarding house required capital in the first instance and to maintain the boarding house as a business venture in the early years the husband had to work as a taxi driver or have a part-time job during the winter . |
| 44 | This ceramic could play an important part in the development of electrode technology over the coming years . |
| 45 | MASSIVE overseas contracts , particularly in the Far East , will help underpin growth at North West Water over the coming years , the group said today . |
| 46 | Now this space and a terrace of standard Great Northern Railway Company houses are all that remain of a venture which attempted to turn Mundesley from a tiny fishing village to a major seaside resort in the early years of this century . |
| 47 | The enormous Sunday circulations of the post-war years meant that even without owning more than one paper , the News of the World had the equal largest market share in 1947 . |
| 48 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 49 | So despite the widespread acceptance of social science in the United States by the early years of the twentieth century , it is possible to produce a sizeable list of American sociologists , all eminent figures in the history of the discipline , who seldom undertook on their own account , systematic data collection of any kind . |
| 50 | I remember well being an economics teacher in the awful years of the Labour Government of the 1970s . |
| 51 | Being born and brought up next to a butcher 's shop in a Somerset town in the closing years of the 18th century may not have been the healthiest start in life for a child , but those who saw out the dangerous first two or three years seemed to have stood a good chance of survival thereafter . |
| 52 | Propaganda films from the first years of the Soviet system show enthusiastic crowds , and sometimes , in the background , weeping elderly women , watching the officially sanctioned looting of churches , which were then demolished or turned into granaries or museums of ‘ scientific atheism ’ . |
| 53 | Wedgwood first produced fine bone china in the early years of the 19th century and since the turn of the 20th century it has become the company 's major product . |
| 54 | In any event adjustments are required where the cumulative inflation rate over the three years is approaching or exceeds 100 per cent and the operations in the hyper-inflationary economies are material to the group . |
| 55 | In response Fujimori criticised Amnesty International and the United States human rights body Americas Watch for failing to denounce the activities of Sendero Luminoso or human rights violations in the eight years before he came to power . |
| 56 | Germany is now paying a price few other countries would have accepted for not providing itself with better citizenship and immigration laws in the calmer years before unification . |
| 57 | Sir Edward Boyle , probably the most gifted and perceptive Conservative Education Minister of the post-war years , appreciated that for schools to flourish teachers need to be kept abreast of good practice and encouraged to be responsive to the findings of contemporary research . |
| 58 | The growth of synfuel industries during the latter years of the twentieth century and the gradual increase of the contribution to oil demand made by these oil shale , tar sand , coal based fuels mean an extension of the life of the IC engine probably well into the mid-21st century . |
| 59 | Erm I 've now set out the budget details for the three years . |
| 60 | I began with some general considerations on the division of labour and social collectivities , then offered an account of the development of political forces and their support blocs over the post-war years . |