Example sentences of "the [num ord] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hours every Tuesdays for the second years |
| 2 | And she 's gone into the second years , you go there when |
| 3 | No , I mean all the fourth years last year you was allowed to out and go ice skating and things like that and this year we did n't get nothing . |
| 4 | It pushes back , to a disconcertingly early period in Pound 's life , the first signs of that aridity , that closing of the doors of perception , which — drastically arrested and reversed though it was , at Pisa and through the first years at St Elizabeth 's — reasserted itself and wreaked the desolation of Thrones . |
| 5 | As the first years passed , and the courses of lectures did not have to be prepared out of nothing , he sat at the bay window in the sub-warden 's study , looking out towards the cathedral , and started to write his first book . |
| 6 | It is true that she has not always got her own way in Cabinet , particularly in the first years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most scientists expect that it will show , as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , that low doses of radiation have no detectable effect on humans or animals in the first years after an accident . |
| 9 | Helen , however , was still imprisoned in the fears and longings that had marked her life during the first years of puberty and was obsessed with the idea that she would never marry and have children . |
| 10 | Fortunately , in addition to Helen Thomas 's absorbing , unselfconscious account of their courtship and the first years of their marriage , letters still survive which chart the growth of love . |
| 11 | During the first years of the Federal Republic , from 1949 to 1953 , when the Right was staging something of a recovery , attempts had been made to distinguish between ‘ insane Hitlerism ’ and the positive aspects of National Socialism . |
| 12 | The army 's pioneering role , its part in the coup of 1969 , the military background of the members of the Revolutionary Command Council , were the chief reasons civilians did not control the army : after the first years of the revolution there was no ministry or secretariat for defence or aggression in Libya , and the National and local Assemblies did not discuss military affairs . |
| 13 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 14 | Before they acquired firearms in the first years of the |
| 15 | The happiness and general enthusiasm that children of all types experience in the first years of primary school evaporate as they become adolescent ant move into the secondary school . |
| 16 | The Zimbabwe Scientific Programme ( ZIMSCI ) project is designed to support teachers not trained in science and to provide a complete science package with low-cost kits for the first years of secondary school . |
| 17 | In the first years of ‘ stabilization ’ , the government put in place various measures , including feeding programmes , to assist the most vulnerable groups in society . |
| 18 | Drop-outs in the first years of primary education remain very high . |
| 19 | After declining sharply up to 1979 its share of both stabilized in the first years of the Thatcher government , only to fall once more into the late 1980s . |
| 20 | This , it was argued , suggested that in the first years of life the two hemispheres have similar linguistic abilities and that the left side became dominant only as speech itself developed . |
| 21 | Today the express coach has much the same sort of function In the first years of the century the number of interurbans grew rapidly . |
| 22 | The KPP argument made sense , but they compromised this position by claiming that the Ukrainian and Silesian territories seized in the first years of independence should also be returned to their respective ‘ owners ’ . |
| 23 | Even throughout the first years of her marriage , she remained the dutiful wife , never complaining when her husband wanted to involve her in the country life . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | The first years of that decade were spent largely making B-pictures and westerns . |
| 26 | In the first years he had easy-going jailers . |
| 27 | The first years , mauve . |
| 28 | All his actions — still more his inactivity — during the first years of his archiepiscopate were based on this idea of partnership . |
| 29 | In short , progress in the first years after 1957 was sufficiently gratifying to all who had backed the formation of the EEC , and sufficient to oblige other states to take more account of it . |
| 30 | The first years of Tethlis 's reign saw the assembling of new armies . |