Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing which has struck me very forcibly through the years is that most of the classic evolutionary lineages of my student days , such as Ostrea-Gryphaea and Zaphrentis delanouei , have long since lost their scientific respectability , and in spite of the plethora of palaeontological information we now have available , there seems to be very little to put in their place . |
| 2 | Although the major national markets covered by the report are expected to change little during the years up to 1996 , the impact of the Swiss healthcare industries will be seen and Switzerland will become a leading market , forecast to be worth $116m by 1996 . |
| 3 | The hotel is a group of buildings surrounded by gardens and trees in a compound , and we noticed from the start a vaguely British feeling about it — we asked our guide and he told us it had been formerly the British Embassy ( presumably during the years when this had been Chiang Kai-Shek 's capital ) , and had remained in British hands until 1960 or so , I suppose it was a consulate or something . |
| 4 | Comparable figures are available only for the years 1984 and 1988 . |
| 5 | There is a special innocence in Doisneau 's photographs of children , especially during the years when he was working with a twin-lens reflex camera held at waist level . |
| 6 | The trade unions were growing in militancy , especially during the years after 1890 , and were displaying powers which dismayed a large part of middle-class society . |
| 7 | Do you think your style has changed much through the years ? |
| 8 | He said that in Derry , down through the years , it had been established that Loyalists could parade in certain places , Republicans in certain places . |
| 9 | It 's the inappropriate nature of my clothing that has consistently let me down through the years . |
| 10 | I think that 's probably come down through the years and things are still that way for musicians : get them as cheap as you can and never give them the credit that they deserve . ’ |
| 11 | And the effects have rippled down through the years into just about every local music scene in America , from the blues players to the hillbillies up in the mountains . ’ |
| 12 | It was as if his mind was digging down through the years and bringing up pictures of past events … |
| 13 | There 's nobody more sensible , but underneath all the sense there 's the woman , and her needs , and the feeling that she 's going to go down through the years alone . |
| 14 | There were no youthful revolutionaries , they were all , in the main , mature men — some of whom had fought in '16 — and all of whom had advanced the Irish cause either with funds or arms down through the years . |
| 15 | I know the Counsellors restrict your access to books , but there must be legends , stories handed down through the years . |
| 16 | Familiarity with the voices that had haunted him down through the years had encouraged a bravado that was little like his real self . |
| 17 | It 's come down through the years , this story . |
| 18 | The name of Lads has survived down through the years from the 15th century . |
| 19 | The last observation , of course , has , down through the years , been the stock response of the Scottish internationalist with his finger firmly jammed on the self-destruct button . |
| 20 | All down through the years . |
| 21 | Why not more Gaudies , especially for the years of my interlocutors ? |
| 22 | She supposed that she must face the fact that she was run down after the years of nursing and the final shock of Donald 's death . |
| 23 | This may be called the ‘ monumental or Renaissance ’ , a style which made an enormous impact on ‘ townscapes ’ throughout Europe , especially in the years before and after the Great War . |
| 24 | WOMEN are more sensitive than men to these odours , especially in the years between puberty and menopause . |
| 25 | Cost itself was not an insuperable difficulty , though the conditions of steerage travel across the ocean were , especially in the years after the Irish famine , notoriously horrible , if not actually murderous . |
| 26 | This was to find some authoritative expression during the war years themselves and more especially in the years after 1945 , when a general election resulted in the return of the first Labour government with a clear working majority in the House of Commons . |
| 27 | But all the indirect evidence , including the records of his reading in such writers on generation as Erasmus Darwin , Johannes Müller and Giorgio Gallesio , makes it most probable that he came to pangenesis in such a revision of his 1838 position , and that he did so in the years 1840–1 . |
| 28 | While their relationship managed to remain friendly they saw each other less and less in the years to come . |
| 29 | Pomerania was still experiencing the flight from the land into the cities over 40 years after its main impact in the rest of Europe , and it was only in the years 1925–33 that the mainly German-speaking Pomeranian towns of Lauenburg , Bütow , Rummelsburg , Neustettin , Belgard , Kolberg , Köslin and Stolp expanded with the absorption of country dwellers . |
| 30 | Only in the years after the Napoleonic Wars was there any threat to this pattern , and that came from a maverick member of the group . |