Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [prep] the [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roderick et al report that both the study of the Joint Matriculation Board ( JMB ) candidates who entered Sheffield University in the three years between 1975 to 1977 , and the study involving 17 English Universities , demonstrate that there is an exceptionally high dropout rate and failure rate in relation to unqualified mature students . |
| 2 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |
| 3 | Am I dreaming or is this the Orient Express of the inter-war years ? |
| 4 | In 1855 Alexander had appointed his friend General V. I. Nazimov ( the reactionary who had clamped down on Moscow University in the last years of Nicholas I ) to the Governor-Generalship of the three provinces at issue . |
| 5 | The term ‘ Tyneside Conurbation ’ has been employed in relation to census data since the inter-war years but this contained four county boroughs and significant parts of the counties of Durham and Northumberland . |
| 6 | The intention here is not to construct a full history of the post-war period but it will be necessary to examine some of the main developments in the class/collectivity/political force relationships over the post-war years , even at a cost of some over-simplification , in order to establish a basis for the fuller discussion in the following chapter of these relationships under the Thatcher government . |
| 7 | It would also appear that in some areas the rougher element ganged up against Boy Scout troops in the early years of the movement , throwing stones at them and mocking their uniform of floppy hats and silly short pants . |
| 8 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 9 | Undergraduate admissions over the past years show interesting trends in the number of mature entrants , now about one quarter of the total undergraduate population , and the number of Scottish domiciled students . |
| 10 | The institutional and intellectual alliances illustrated by the careers of leading protagonists formed the backbone of the social hygiene movement in the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 11 | No Arlott journey of the middle years was without a chart of secondhand bookshops , antiquarian caves . |
| 12 | In the latter I was shocked to find letters from contenders for the distinction of Nottingham 's oldest graduate who were only a year or two older than I. Maybe I ought to record some of my own recollections as a student in the Physics Department of University College Nottingham during the academic years 1928 to 1932 . |
| 13 | The analysis concludes that 1 million households and more than 2½ million people have dropped out of the legal aid net in the two years since Lord Mackay of Clashfern became Lord Chancellor . |
| 14 | The table shows the actual performance of a Clerical Medical with-profits endowment plan over the 10 years to 1991 . |
| 15 | You then compare your sales performance in the two areas — usually in terms of the percentage change on the previous years — and you have a measure of which campaign is the more successful . |
| 16 | six hundred pounds , the pitch fees about seven hundred pounds , bowls club pay us three hundred and fifty pounds , the tennis club for the two years , subscriptions will be twelve hundred pounds , the fair three hundred and fifty pound for two visits , erm one hundred and seventy five each visit , and the rugby club will pay us about three hundred pounds for the use of the pitch on ground . |
| 17 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 18 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 19 | Consequently he was not able to invest in improved mining techniques in the later years of his life . |
| 20 | Then follows the wedding ceremony , marking the beginning of marriage proper and the myriad negotiations of the early years of married life . |
| 21 | Having said that , if there is n't any pay formula included in this deal , er no matter what the percentage increase over the two years , I think er the strength of feeling across the country , people will not be happy with this and if it is balloted on it will be rejected . |
| 22 | The targets for Companies House for the two years to April 1991 were as follows ( Cm. 1261 ) : |
| 23 | Equality has been a powerful theme in British politics since the turn of the century and can be seen in practice in the high marginal rates of income tax in the postwar years reaching until recently a marginal tax of 83 per cent on earned income and 98 per cent on unearned income ; the drive to abolish private education and private health ; the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ through rent control ; and the provision of state welfare services financed by taxation but free of charge at the time they are used . |
| 24 | At least once in their lives , most of these men would have met Thorfinn : more perhaps than had come face to face with King Duncan in the six years of his reign and before , when he had been prince of Cumbria in the shadow of Malcolm his grandfather . |
| 25 | The following is an extract from the above Plan , setting out their basic policy towards rail transport in the coming years : |
| 26 | ‘ Rural development will become an increasingly important element of community policies in the coming years , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Of all the consequences of the Battle of Gumbinnen , the most significant was the appointment of Hindenburg and Ludendorff to command , for they quickly formed a superlative military team , for a time as successful as that of Marlborough and Prince Eugene in the early years of the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said , there was a massive increase in business investment in the three years up to 1989 . |
| 29 | The five non-permanent members of the Security Council for the two years from Jan. 1 , 1992 , were elected by the General Assembly on Oct. 16 . |
| 30 | He brushed aside charges that the Government had reneged on its election promises last year by comparing the Government borrowing crisis with the early years of the Thatcher Government in which , he said , taxes had to rise before they could be brought down after borrowing was stabilised . |