Example sentences of "in [art] years [adv] before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Militant anti-war protest has ( with the possible exception of the early 1980s ) never been so widespread in Britain as it was in the years immediately before the Second World War . |
| 2 | The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War . |
| 3 | The reaction which followed hit the Bolsheviks particularly hard , but a network of local party organizations survived , regrouped and exerted ever greater influence as working-class protest resumed in the years immediately before the war . |
| 4 | The statues in question are inseparable from the archaic series ; their freshness of surface suggest that they did not stand long above ground ; and it seems to me a reasonable conclusion that they were dedicated in the years immediately before the invasion . |
| 5 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 6 | In the years immediately before the Reform Act , frequent reference is made in Scotland to Boroughmongers , although , as the spelling shows , the term was of English origin . |