Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] the [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 2 | But if there is to be a new morality — new values for the new situation resulting from technological and political change in the closing years of the twentieth century — then the creation of that new morality must in the end be a joint enterprise of both women and men . |
| 3 | Encouraged by the long minority of the new Stadtholder it helped to influence Dutch policy in a pro-French and anti-British direction during the Seven Years War ( the Orange family , now closely associated by marriage with that of Hanover , was generally pro-British in outlook ) . |
| 4 | Whilst there may be a particular need for parental support in the early years of child-rearing there are plenty of examples of significant assistance being given in other circumstances . |
| 5 | This study sets out to examine , albeit in a preliminary way , just how the rapid changes in the Scottish agricultural industry in the post-war years have affected those who work on the land . |
| 6 | A barely significant political force throughout the two-and-a-half years since its foundation , the Falange now found its numbers swelling dramatically with disillusioned members of the CEDA Youth . |
| 7 | In general those rural areas experiencing persistent loss during the inter-war years were the uplands and other remote places ( which in a generation or so would experience a surprising resurgence ) ; in contrast , persistent increases occurred in rural places adjacent to the large urban areas . |
| 8 | This is the total arrears for the 4 years of Community Charge and includes the Region , Districts and Water Charge . |
| 9 | The island had responded particularly to the fervent missionary work of the itinerant Baptist preachers in the early years of the century . |
| 10 | The article criticised the ‘ hopeless confusion of the post-war years ’ which had created the risk ‘ that in incompetent hands this country may go drifting on either towards a sharp crisis which might have revolutionary consequences , or to dictatorship , or perhaps worse still to gradual decline … |
| 11 | A variety of news items were selected at different times during the three years of the survey . |
| 12 | The social investigations of the inter-war years and the literature of concern about unemployment and other social problems prepared the ground for wartime legislation . |
| 13 | More than 68,000 persons were killed and more than 2 million injured on British roads in the 10 years prior to the outbreak of war , but Tripp was able to advocate not just improvements to major roads as one way of reducing the number of fatalities and accidents , but complete road systems . |
| 14 | Otherwise that person having worked for four different employers during the forty years will not retire on two-thirds of final salary , but will retire on two-thirds er only perhaps the last employer for the last ten years . |
| 15 | But VMI 's lawyers suggested at the court hearing that West Point has ‘ gone soft ’ , that its discipline records show a pattern of sexual tension in the 15 years since women were admitted — and that these have led to ‘ substantial , deep-seated problems . ’ |
| 16 | We shall have to live with it , because er I I do n't think that any hope of any redress next year , but the got to be established of a different system , of me a different methodology for the foreseeable years , if we 're going to get those schemes through that you supported wholeheartedly and congratulated us and for bringing forward the new road schemes for er the that that that that you so approved so warmly yesterday . |
| 17 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 18 | As an analysis of the nature of the child in the primary years and of the way children learn , the Plowden Report ranks as the most detailed study of the early years of schooling ever produced . |
| 19 | One New Yorker who encountered Fred Newman and social therapy in the early years was Lenora Branch Fulani , who was earning a PhD in developmental psychology at the City University of New York . |
| 20 | Manufacturing industry had been particularly affected by very high rates of inter-firm mobility during the inter-war years when average turnover of skilled labour was more than 50 per cent per annum . |
| 21 | He probably remained Lewis 's best friend in the English Faculty during the early years at Magdalen . |
| 22 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 23 | Yet , though the concept of class is vague , with social and economic divisions acting only imperfectly to distinguish social groups , the major occupational categories persisted in giving a sufficient basis for social distinction during the inter-war years , even though many differences between social classes were blurred at the margins . |
| 24 | His main point was that the marked differences in income and wealth persisted between the social classes throughout the inter-war years had provoked little animus and a remarkably timid response from the working class . |
| 25 | Its social problems in the pre-1914 years were problems of growth rather than decline . |
| 26 | If , then , we recall that there were degrees of nobility and aristocracy , we can admit that the leadership of French and English armies during the Hundred Years War was very largely noble . |
| 27 | In the largest union , that of the St Petersburg metal workers , the Menshevik leadership of the early years was swept from office in 1913 . |
| 28 | Various more or less precise suggestions as to the structure of such a federation were put forward by different writers in the earlier years of this period — by the Quaker William Penn in his Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe ( 1693 ) , by another Quaker , John Bellers , in his Some Reasons for an European State ( London , 1710 ) , by the author of the anonymous Cardinal Alberoni 's Scheme for reducing the Turkish Empire to the Obedience of Christian Princes ( London , 1736 ) and by Saint-Pierre himself . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it is not certainly fictitious , for the paucity of English sources on the later years of Cnut 's reign makes their silence inconclusive , and Robert may have been moved not only by feeling for the æthelings and his apparent friendship for their sister Godgifu 's husband , Count Dreux of the Vexin , but also by memories of his rift with Cnut 's sister Estrith . |
| 30 | There were a number of episodes of armed resistance to British authority during the early years of occupation , and they were dealt with in a fashion amply sufficient to deter . |