Example sentences of "the [adj] year of this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Library is devoting a very considerable proportion of its resources during the remaining years of this century to the automated provision of information . |
| 2 | This looks very like the rerun of a scenario first enacted in the early years of this century , when two unknown expatriate American poets attacked a torpid English literary establishment in the name of nascent modernism , looking to France for their intellectual inspiration and their models of literary achievement . |
| 3 | The history of state insurance and assistance from the early years of this century is one in which social and demographic changes intertwine strangely with political theories and motives . |
| 4 | Refitted as a cinema in the early years of this century it subsequently became a bingo hall and finally a flood-damaged carpet warehouse . |
| 5 | Since the early years of this century it has been recognized by scholars that this story had its origins in a tale about someone being attacked by the spirit or demon of the Jabbok , the embodiment of the great dangers involved in crossing the river at night after the rains . |
| 6 | With the exception of the banqueting hall it was built in the early years of this century by the Edwardian architect Walter Godfrey . |
| 7 | They believed the existence of a course would increase local property values and help sell the many building plots on the market during the early years of this century . |
| 8 | A vogue for urban planning developed in the early years of this century , and many American cities were the subjects of Civic Plans . |
| 9 | Several of these were swept up into the state National Railways of Mexico in the early years of this century . |
| 10 | The even grander Cape to Cairo dream came nearer to realization , but only when victorious British arms took the railway to Khartoum in 1899 , and the copper of Northern Rhodesia ( Zambia ) and the Belgian Congo ( Zaire ) lured it north from the Zambezi in the early years of this century . |
| 11 | Great care was taken in the early years of this century to design bus shelters that were in keeping with country villages . |
| 12 | Regrettably , a House of Lords decision in the early years of this century made it clear that wrongful dismissal compensation will not cover either : |
| 13 | Although present in Langstone Harbour there are now no beds of Zostera species in either Sussex estuary , although these certainly existed in the early years of this century , and Z. angustifolia was recorded near the Hayling shore of Chichester Harbour as recently as 1963 . |
| 14 | On the other hand , the coastline 's area is zero , so neither a one-dimensional nor a two-dimensional picture is appropriate , and in fact the way in which the length increases with resolution suggests a dimension D of about 1.2 The mathematics of sets of points with fractional dimensionality was developed in the early years of this century , but associated geometric objects were considered as ‘ pathological ’ and not corresponding to anything in Nature , Mandelbrot 's massive and single-minded achievement has been to convert this abstract formalism into a flourishing branch of applied mathematics , in three ways . |
| 15 | The midwife toad came to public notice when , in the early years of this century , the Austrian biologist Paul Kammerer announced that he had persuaded the toads to breed once more in water and that , as a consequence of this , they had re-evolved nuptial pads . |
| 16 | The statue stood in Argyle Street , near Glasgow Cross , until the early years of this century , at which time the volume of traffic in the city centre necessitated its removal to its present position in Cathedral Square . |
| 17 | The rock marking the crossing point is on the land of Knockmurran Farm , Coylton and was known as ‘ the king 's step ’ until the early years of this century . |
| 18 | I 'm going back now to before the First World War , sometime in the early years of this century . |
| 19 | From the early years of this century comes an account of one such episode that occurred in the docks of Bremen . |
| 20 | A therapy which appears to have similarities with electro-acupuncture is neural therapy , discovered in Germany in the early years of this century and also involved with electrical charges on cell membranes . |
| 21 | In the early years of this century , many a collector found Madeira a happy hunting ground . |
| 22 | In the early years of this century Miss Turner came to live in Madeira , and managed the flourishing tea-room at Santo da Serra , where Ceylon tea and buttered toast were served . |
| 23 | By the early years of this century , pawnbrokers — the first lenders to have been controlled in detail — were licensed , and the way in which they did their business was regulated . |
| 24 | When I was in London during the early years of this period I often stayed with my mother in Hampton Court . |
| 25 | This was shown dramatically in the early years of this century . |
| 26 | The present impregnable appearance of the castle is due to a major restoration in the early years of this century , but there have been fortified buildings on this site since the days of the Viking invaders . |
| 27 | In the early years of this century , before state pensions were introduced , and when occupational pension schemes covered only a small part of the work-force , the bulk of the wealth of the population was held in the form of realizable assets , and was highly concentrated in the hands of a small minority . |
| 28 | This shift in the economic status of the elderly from being predominantly without assets in the early years of this century towards having at least some private financial resources must represent an overall increase in the economic independence of the elderly population . |
| 29 | Their current exhibition , somewhat optimistically titled ‘ The Golden Age of Danish Art ’ ( most of the pictures on show date from the later decades of the nineteenth century and the early years of this one ) includes around thirty artists , with all of the above . |
| 30 | In the early years of this century its study was dominated by a man of great learning and erudition , Sir George Macdonald , who had conducted his own excavations . |