For example, there are persons who are in physical science, in the field of mineralogy, trained in crystallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the powder technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals only, and who have spent the last fifteen years concentrating on the montmorillonites ; ;

During the last years of Woodrow Wilson's administration, a red scare developed in our country.

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

The bills were principally for hospitalization and doctors' fees during the last years of his life, and when he died he owed in the main only current doctor's bills.

Papa, I should emphasize, had been an invalid the last several years of his life ; ;

Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

`` As a writer, by what have I been obsessed these last ten years, if not by mankind??

In the last few years the telephone company has managed to automate many areas of their service.

The publication last July of the party's Draft Program -- that blueprint for the `` transition to communism '' -- had led the uninitiated to suppose that this Twenty-second Congress would be a sort of apotheosis of the Khrushchev regime, a solemn consecration of ideas which had, in fact, been current over the last three or four years ( i.e., since the defeat of the `` anti-party group '' ) in all theoretical party journals.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

It was not as though she noted clearly that her nephews had not been to see her for ten years, not since their last journey eastward to witness their Uncle Izaak being lowered into the rocky soil ; ;

For each State ( except Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii ) determine average per capita income based on the last three years.

Determine the average per capita income for the U. S. based on the last three years.

For each State ( except the Virgin Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii ), determine the average per capita income for the last three years.

Determine the average per capita income for the United States for the last three years.

The last few years have witnessed what have been perhaps the most rapid advances in military technology in history.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

Betty is 16 years of age and had several wins to her credit last year.

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

Like its long-lived cousin, the refrigerator, a conditioner can be expected to last 20 to 25 years or more.

The controversy of the last few years over whether architects or interior designers should plan the interiors of modern buildings has brought clearly into focus one important difference of opinion.

Indeed, it has only been a matter of the last few years that reputable schools of art have granted degrees at all.

( I watched it on television late one night last week and it `` stands up '' remarkably well, even twenty years later.

After several other publications, some reflecting his interest in and knowledge of continental Europe, Bowdler's last work was an expurgated version of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1826 under the supervision of his nephew and biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger.

Dresser also produced some of the last of the great folio works on birds, notably A History of the Birds of Europe ( 1871 – 1881, supplement issued in 1895-96 ), begun with Richard Bowdler Sharpe.

The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.

As his last work he prepared the text for the book Paris sans fin, a sequence of 150 lithographs containing memories of all the places where he had lived.

Cut pieces of celery last only a few hours before they turn brown, and few American restaurants include it in green salads because it cannot be prepared far enough ahead of time.

By quickly setting up for the next play ( often within 5 – 10 seconds after the last play despite being afforded 45 seconds ) this hindered the other team's defense from substituting situational players, regrouping for tactics, and, some suggest, increased the defense's rate of fatigue ( This is attributed to the belief that the offense dictates when a play starts so they tend to be more mentally relaxed and prepared for the start of a play where the defense must remain on a higher level of alert before the play starts ).

Christianity at last found recognition by the State ; and this brought new problems — apologies of a different sort had to be prepared.

It is the heaviest element that can be formed by neutron bombardment of lighter elements, and hence the last element that can be prepared in macroscopic quantities, although pure fermium metal has not yet been prepared.

Though Ribbentrop continued to argue that Britain and France were bluffing, both he and Hitler were prepared as a last resort to risk a general war by invading Poland.

** a third test prepared by each examining board based on the programmes of all the subjects of the last year of study

By the end of 1970 there were more than 200 Sheridans in Vietnam, and they stayed in the field until the last US Armored Cavalry unit, the 1st Squadron, 1st Armored Cavalry prepared for re-deployment back to the United States on 10 April 1972.

To allow the revival of the earlier work to be prepared at the Savoy, the last two performances of Ruddigore were given at the Crystal Palace, on 8 and 9 November.

Even though he had spent the last decades of his life securing Maria Theresa's inheritance, Charles always expected a son and never prepared his daughter for her future role as sovereign.

Almost to the last minute, he was prepared to withdraw.

In his last opera, the comic opera Béatrice et Bénédict, Berlioz prepared a libretto based loosely on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

After their Defeat the Rebels retired to the Isle aux Noix, where they continued till lately, sending out some Parties, and many Emissaries, to debauch the Minds of the Canadians and Indians, in which they have proved too successful, and for which they were too well prepared by the Cabals and Intrigues of these two last years ; We knew of their being reinforced, and very considerably, I suppose, as they appeared in Numbers near St. John's last Sunday Evening ; where or when they landed, or the Particulars since, we have but very imperfect Accounts of, all Communications with the Forts of St. John's and Chambli, being, as far as I can find, entirely cut off.

François Mitterrand's last meal included this specially prepared bird which was illegal to prepare and eat at that time.

In the last phase, Soviet troops prepared and executed their withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The story was also included in the collection A Hunger Artist ( Ein Hungerkünstler ), the last book Kafka prepared for publication, printed by Verlag Die Schmiede after Kafka's death.

As 1891 came to a close, Whitman prepared a final edition of Leaves of Grass, writing to a friend upon its completion, " L. of G. at last complete — after 33 y ' rs of hackling at it, all times & moods of my life, fair weather & foul, all parts of the land, and peace & war, young & old ".

The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians says of Monteux that he " was never an ostentatious conductor ... prepared his orchestra in often arduous rehearsals and then small but decisive gestures to obtain playing of fine texture, careful detail and powerful rhythmic energy, retaining to the last his extraordinary grasp of musical structure and a faultless ear for sound quality.

Ash nearly became bankrupt as they prepared to release possibly their last album.

The elder Bourbon branch ( as represented by Louis XVIII and later by its last scion, Henri, Comte de Chambord ) was prepared to grant ( octroyer ) a charter of liberties or constitution, but insisted that they ruled by " divine right " and conferred these liberties on their subjects of their own free will.

As the tide turns against the Dominion, cut off from the Gamma Quadrant and without technological advantage, a last stand is prepared.