Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the General Staffs ’ point of view , there were some bright patches in the otherwise sombre overcast of the last years of the 1950s . |
| 2 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 3 | The house was built for Earl Fitzwilliam in the first years of the 19th century by John Carr of York , then in his 80s . |
| 4 | Most scientists expect that it will show , as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , that low doses of radiation have no detectable effect on humans or animals in the first years after an accident . |
| 5 | The giving of often lavish presents to diplomats when they left a court to which they had been accredited , when a treaty was signed between two states or a special embassy of congratulation or condolence was sent , still a widespread practice in the first years of the nineteenth century , fairly soon became unimportant . |
| 6 | Wages were pitiful and despite recovering somewhat in certain sectors in the last years before the war , they remained very low . |
| 7 | Theudebert I was already an active figure in the last years of his father 's reign , and he had the support of a military following , his leudes , with whose help he made good his claim to the throne . |
| 8 | Wimpey Construction UK , Eastern has just completed the £25 million centre , the largest building project to be completed in Milton Keynes in the last years . |
| 9 | The hurts of the last years run so deep they just could not be solved with AT&T involved . |
| 10 | There is no need to chronicle in detail the conflicts of the last years of O'Neill 's administration . |
| 11 | Thus what is interesting about the women 's magazines in England during the first years of the twentieth century is not the content of the advice given on child rearing , but the fact that so little advice is given at all ; sometimes , from one year to the next , children are barely mentioned save for the occasional appealing illustrations , the pattern for a christening bonnet or the recipe for a nursery pudding . |
| 12 | The découpages of the last years are greatly admired but seldom appear at auction . |
| 13 | For the French the peace of the last years of the fourteenth century led to little more than the need to garrison their frontiers . |
| 14 | Her life at Remaisnil in the first years had no routine ; she continued to travel regularly around Europe overseeing shops as well as production in Helmond . |
| 15 | Gaunt showed consistent loyalty to his father and , after 1377 , to his young nephew Richard II , but he lacked the charismatic authority of his father and eldest brother , and he was widely if unfairly blamed for the misfortunes that befell England in the last years of his father 's reign . |
| 16 | Incomprehensibly , there seem to be as many spotters now in the days of dull diesels and anonymous electrics as there were when we were train-spotters in the last years of steam and the trains bore names like Bihar and Orissa , Baroda , Indore , Drake , Camperdown , and Barfleur , names redolent of history and tradition , summoning up fragrant images of far-off places and the martial rattle of distant centuries . |
| 17 | Even the Symbolist view ( which held sway in Russia in the first years of the century ) that ‘ art is thinking in images ’ can not be admitted , because although it acknowledges that thought in art takes a different form from conventional philosophy , it will in the end lead the study of art beyond art itself to forms of knowing and feeling , to epistemology and psychology . |
| 18 | In the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries such methods were more difficult to use ; but the press bureaux with which more and more of the foreign offices of Europe were now equipping themselves ( the Habsburg empire in 1879 , Russia in the first years of the twentieth century , Sweden in 1909 ) were used increasingly to channel information to foreign journalists and news agencies and thus , it was hoped , create a favourable climate of opinion . |
| 19 | There are also a lot of advantages in acquisition accountancy which can provide a sort of beer mat for the first years while you are trying to put the businesses together , and of course we did n't have these in the merger . |
| 20 | His place was taken by Sir Herbert Samuel , Postmaster General during the first years of the King 's reign . |
| 21 | The Zimbabwe Scientific Programme ( ZIMSCI ) project is designed to support teachers not trained in science and to provide a complete science package with low-cost kits for the first years of secondary school . |
| 22 | But then the civil war of the first years of the new century caused what was virtually the collapse of the French army , a collapse confirmed by the defeat at Agincourt at the hands of English men-at-arms and archers . |
| 23 | With the Butler Education Act of 1944 and the introduction of Family Allowances in 1945 , the chief elements of the ‘ Welfare State ’ were put in place in the last years of the war . |
| 24 | Stocking knitting had been removing to the east Midlands from the last years of the preceding century . |
| 25 | The removal of entry quotas encouraged young people who had been denied access to universities in the last years of Nicholas to enter them under Alexander , with the result that students tended to be older and more politically engaged than they had been in the past . |
| 26 | David Scott , for example , told one of his Angus constituents in the last years of the eighteenth century , when refusing his request for patronage , that he was |
| 27 | Propaganda films from the first years of the Soviet system show enthusiastic crowds , and sometimes , in the background , weeping elderly women , watching the officially sanctioned looting of churches , which were then demolished or turned into granaries or museums of ‘ scientific atheism ’ . |
| 28 | ( William and Dorothy Wordsworth rented Racedown in the last years of the eighteenth century . ) |
| 29 | Despite his notoriety during the Cultural Revolution , Chen even secured a limited rehabilitation in the last years of his life and was allowed to do historical research at the Literature and History Museum in Peking . |
| 30 | The keynote for the last years of Offa , however , is sounded by an event much closer to home than the Carolingian court . |