Example sentences of "the years leading [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This enables Railfreight to cater for a modest increase in international traffic in the years leading up to the opening of the Channel Tunnel . |
| 2 | That will prevent MPs scrutinising the report in detail and from questioning Trade Secretary Nicholas Ridley about the DTI 's role in allowing Barlow Clowes to operate over the years leading up to its collapse . |
| 3 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |
| 4 | I did n't have any regular bags in the years leading up to Tom Weiskopf because there were only a few tournaments I could go to . |
| 5 | In the years leading up to retirement and after , women often find themselves in the role of carer , looking after an aged partner or ailing parents and other relations , or in certain situations , adult children . |
| 6 | Rupert Hall 's short history of the college guides us through the years leading up to this event , then on through the 20th century to recent times . |
| 7 | Since the condition often occurs in the secondary-school years , the young person may not only be faced with the trauma of the diagnosis and the confusion of being still able to see clearly in some situations and not at all in others , but there may also have to be a decision to transfer the medium of communication from print to braille , all this taking place in the years leading up to important examinations . |
| 8 | Finally , in the years leading up to the Manila Congress 89 , WACC 's Forum programme was absorbed by a host of preparatory meetings in the regions and by the preparations for the Congress itself . |
| 9 | In the years leading up to the First World War the Hooligan embarked on a remarkable career , appearing in name if not in person before numerous governmental and semi-official bodies of enquiry . |
| 10 | Traditionally , the answer has been found in the study of the two main factors which were at issue in the years leading up to what is regarded as the moment of outbreak of war , the confiscation of the duchy of Aquitaine by King Philip VI of France in May 1337 . |
| 11 | Though there had been in the years leading up to 1832 theoretical choice between these two ways forward , towards political democracy or towards industrial democracy , few would have distinguished the two so sharply before the passage of the Reform Bill . |
| 12 | It was based on ‘ family wages ’ and female employment was uncommon , and it flourished in the years leading up to 1914 . |
| 13 | Since , as has been argued here , international forces are a factor in all the structural changes in the UK economy , we shall also focus on the international side of the economy in the years leading up to the 1970s/1980s crossroads . |
| 14 | None of Doherty 's publications lasted very long , but they were an important part of the general ferment of radical ideas in the years leading up to the Chartist movement . |
| 15 | As a result of the Local Government Act 1972 , section 262 , much of this legislation was repealed ( and in some localities replaced ) successively in the years leading up to 1986 . |
| 16 | Moreover , in that event , it might become difficult to manage our parity in the years leading up to 1996-97 . |
| 17 | It quoted Brazil 's National Institute for Research as calculating that 120,300 square miles of forest had been destroyed in the years leading up to 1989 . |