Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] the [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | An assizes court in Paris on June 15 , 1990 , sentenced Rolf Dobbertin , a German-born nuclear physicist who had worked for the French National Council for Scientific Research ( CNRS ) , to 12 years ' imprisonment for espionage for East Germany during the 10 years to January 1979 [ see p. 29786 for his arrest in 1979 and p. 33867 for his release in 1983 ] . |
| 2 | But he also showed a striking interest in international developments , particularly the progress of the Protestant cause in France and Germany during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 3 | He served with both Horse and Foot in Germany during the Seven Years ' War , an experience to which he often subsequently referred . |
| 4 | The mechanism of the ‘ waiting list ’ worked in this way in The Netherlands during the twenty-five years up to 1975 ( Rutherford 1986 ) and the logic of rationing scarce custodial space is at the heart of the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission . |
| 5 | Kit 's success would make Rebecca 's father rich , much richer than the family had ever been since the squandering of the fortune made in the service of the Earl of Warwick during the Hundred Years War . |
| 6 | The financial information contained in this document does not constitute the Company 's statutory accounts but has been extracted from the statutory accounts of LASMO for the five years ended 31 December 1991 and also includes certain other information . |
| 7 | The Holy Roman Emperors were elected by three lay and three clerical Electors plus the King of Bohemia , a title always held by the Habsburgs after the Thirty Years War . |
| 8 | Euromoney ranked Singapore 's economic performance as the world 's second best after Taiwan in the three years to 1992 , based on the views of 34 economists from leading banks . |
| 9 | Carroll House was the second Italian-owned winner of the Arc in the two years it has been sponsored by the Italian hotel chain Ciga . |
| 10 | As a result twenty-nine food ships — the organizing of which proved to be a good way of strengthening support , were sent to Republican Spain during the three years of the civil war . |
| 11 | ‘ There have been major developments in the NHS in the three years since the advisory council was set up and new avenues for discussing possible changes have been developed , ’ said Lord Fraser . |
| 12 | The political murder rate , attributed primarily to the tribal police , was almost equivalent to that of Chile in the three years after the coup against Allende . |
| 13 | The political murder rate , attributed primarily to the tribal police , was almost equivalent to that of Chile in the three years after the coup against Allende . |
| 14 | The Authority allocated £13.75 million pounds to PNP over the four years 1985–9 . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt that as soon as I took over Gary had it in his mind that he was n't looking to play for England beyond the two years which took him up to the European Championships , ’ he said . |
| 16 | It is known that many families emigrated to Canada during the fifty years from 1818 to 1868 and a great number of them came from the crofts . |
| 17 | One well-known paradox relates to relative stability in the number of reported thefts in Chicago during the 20 years prior to the appointment ( X ) of one Orlando Wilson as police chief , followed by an abrupt increase and continued climb immediately after X , suggesting a considerable growth in crime as a result of Wilson 's appointment . |
| 18 | The control of Parliament is perhaps even better illustrated by the fact that few pieces of legislation have been lost in the Commons in the ten years since Mrs Thatcher became prime minister — the Shops Bill comes to mind , but there is talk of its reintroduction in a future session . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was estimated that the gang had probably managed to shift about forty tons of high grade cannabis resin into the UK during the four years of operating the Guiding Lights . |
| 21 | It may be this which signals the high-water mark of Oswiu 's intervention in Pictland , analogous to his activities in Mercia in the three years after Penda 's death , and it does not imply an obvious community of interest between Oswiu and the sons of Donuel . |
| 22 | Russian support for Austria in the Seven Years War ( 1756–63 ) brought Prussia to the brink of ruin : Frederick the Great was saved only by the death of Elizabeth ( 1741–61 ) . |
| 23 | A survey of thirty paintings and thirty-five pastels and charcoal drawings created by Bill Jacklin in the seven years since he moved to New York in autumn 1985 opens at the Museum of Modern Art , Oxford , this month ( until 10 January 1993 ) . |
| 24 | It was Gwynne who in 1696 proposed the introduction of a loyal association , in response to revelations about the assassination plot , and who in 1698 led the inquiry into clandestine trade with France during the nine years ' war . |
| 25 | A similar approach has been used in the attempt to define the extent of the Celtic kingdoms in Britain during the hundred years before the Roman conquest of AD43 ( fig. 7 ) . |
| 26 | The Jews along with the Huguenots were welcomed with open arms by Friedrich Wilhelm after the Thirty Years War in the hope of achieving rapid economic growth on the cinders of destruction . |
| 27 | For , unlike conquerors before and after , the Romans did not only take from their subject peoples , they contributed also , and the result of these contributions in road communications , law and administration , heating systems , architecture and art has had a permanent effect in Europe despite the 1000 years which intervened between the collapse of the Western half of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Renaissance . |
| 28 | Question D — focuses on explaining the reasons for the industrial and political unrest " in Britain in the five years before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 29 | The monk Ippen ( 1239 to 1289 ) travelled all over Japan in the sixteen years before his death , and his journeys , his life and ideas ( he was also the founder of an Amida-Buddhist school ) were documented by one of his brothers in the twelve illustrated scrolls completed in 1299 . |
| 30 | The English at that time had produced a kind of ravishing sensuality which when we invaded Europe in France in the Hundred Years War and influenced the Burgundians , they were fascinated by the kind of sensuous sounds we were producing . |