Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] years [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mechanism of the ‘ waiting list ’ worked in this way in The Netherlands during the twenty-five years up to 1975 ( Rutherford 1986 ) and the logic of rationing scarce custodial space is at the heart of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission . |
| 2 | During the ten years up to 1989 , the African elephant population plummeted from 1.3 million to just over half a million . |
| 3 | The cash increases in each of the three years up to 1992–93 have been the biggest ever . |
| 4 | It is the typical paper of the 25 years up to 1914 and was spectacularly revived by Irving Penn in the 1980s in order to reprint his major contributions to the photography of haute couture from 30 years before . |
| 5 | We recommend that citizenship should … be a part of the education of every pupil from the early years through to further and higher education … . ’ |
| 6 | The first was that , from the inter-war years up to the year of the study , men of all class origins have become progressively more likely to move into professional , administrative and managerial positions — or into the service class of modern British society . |
| 7 | In the five years up to the end of April , 1950 , the post-war housing programme had provided 686,018 permanent houses and flats in Great Britain . |
| 8 | In the 7 years up to 1977 , 7389 families were established as opposed to the goal of 100 000 by 1974 , largely because of poor agricultural yields , in part due to the use of the wrong rice cultivar for Amazonia , problems of storage of produce and of predators and pests , in an imported technology that was too temperate-oriented . |
| 9 | Brewer and co-workers ( 1988 ) report that , in 1981 alone , 30,000 rounds of plastic bullets were fired , compared with 55,000 in the 5 years up to 1975 . |
| 10 | Such an idea led to isolated fragmentation of the forest , but in the 10 years up to 1977 over 11000 km of roads were built and settlers moved in . |
| 11 | Thus , Becker , in his historical survey of the numerous monographs published on the subject in the hundred years up to 1950 , notes that the vast majority had reached that conclusion ; though he also comments on the many different interpretations that were placed on the evidence . |
| 12 | This kind of paper , in use in the 25 years up to 1914 but revived in recent times , also places the EZRA POUND photographs in a time outside the present — suggesting , perhaps a vision of Venice in the time of the " Belle Epoque " when Pound first came to Europe as a young man and revolutionized poetics in the English language . |
| 13 | Due to the emigration of the people of East Germany to the West — there had been two million people removing in the ten years up to 1961 — a wall was constructed between that part of Berlin controlled by the Communists and the other parts which were controlled by the Federal republic with Britain , France and the United States of America . |
| 14 | For instance , the number of working-age people ( 16-pensionable age ) grew by 1.2 million between 1971 and 1981 and by a further 1.3 million in the seven years up to 1988 , while the age groups spanning the period of most intense new household formation ( 15–44 years old ) contained 3.6 million more people in 1988 than at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 15 | Little was done for him in the three years up to his seventeenth birthday when , like so many others , he found companionship and , ironically , the security he craved for by joining the army . |
| 16 | As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said , there was a massive increase in business investment in the three years up to 1989 . |
| 17 | In March 1982 the Daily Telegraph suggested that ‘ we need to consider why the peaceful people of England are changing … over the 200 years up to 1945 , Britain became so settled in internal peace ’ . |