Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] the [num ord] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1855 Alexander had appointed his friend General V. I. Nazimov ( the reactionary who had clamped down on Moscow University in the last years of Nicholas I ) to the Governor-Generalship of the three provinces at issue . |
| 2 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | There are also a lot of advantages in acquisition accountancy which can provide a sort of beer mat for the first years while you are trying to put the businesses together , and of course we did n't have these in the merger . |
| 7 | His place was taken by Sir Herbert Samuel , Postmaster General during the first years of the King 's reign . |
| 8 | A number of European countries had adopted state or municipal insurance schemes during the last years of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Stocking knitting had been removing to the east Midlands from the last years of the preceding century . |
| 10 | The author of this celebrated Stuart cookery book was a professional cook whose father , also a professional , apprenticed him to Arthur Hollingsworth , cook and caterer to one of the City Guilds during the last years of the sixteenth century . |
| 11 | Wimpey Construction UK , Eastern has just completed the £25 million centre , the largest building project to be completed in Milton Keynes in the last years . |
| 12 | David Scott , for example , told one of his Angus constituents in the last years of the eighteenth century , when refusing his request for patronage , that he was |
| 13 | Empire Day in the last years before the Great War was described as celebrated with a procession led by the Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry through gaily decorated streets . |
| 14 | The " regional policeman " policy of Rajiv Gandhi during the last years of his administration was interpreted by many observers as part of a desire to strengthen India 's position as a regional superpower , despite the country 's avowed non-aligned policy . |