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.

Over the last two decades of his reign, Alfred undertook a radical reorganisation of the military institutions of his kingdom, strengthened the West Saxon economy through a policy of monetary reform and urban planning and strove to win divine favour by resurrecting the literary glories of earlier generations of Anglo-Saxons.

Although noting in the introduction to ' The Protestors ' that ' Some recorded herein perhaps did not have " all the truth " — so the writer has been reminded ', Eyre nevertheless claimed that the purpose of the work was to ' tell how a number of little-known individuals, groups and religious communities strove to preserve or revive the original Christianity of apostolic times ', and that ' In faith and outlook they were far closer to the early springing shoots of first century Christianity and the penetrating spiritual challenge of Jesus himself than much that has passed for the religion of the Nazarene in the last nineteen centuries '.

This was however a conscious image, an invocation of the Hellenistic idea Tryphe-meaning good life, which the last Seleucids strove to be associated with, as opposed to the exhausting civil wars and feuds which troubled their reigns in reality.

Al-Afdal strove to retrieve Damascus one last time, but failed in doing so.

During the last five or six years of his life, Saicho strove to secure the place of Tendai within Japanese Buddhism, and in the process composed almost all of his major works.

The last name " Singh " is in fact used by a wider population from Bihar Jharkhand Punjab to Uttar Pradesh and from Kashmir down into Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharastra to Uttarakhand as well as the far eastern states of Manipur, Assam, Tripura, Sikkim, and even Bhutan, spanning the entire subcontinent and even reaching Southeast Asia, where in Thailand, as the Chakri Dynasty strove to empower Siam after the fall of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, Singh Singhaseni ( 1777 – 1849 ) was a prominent general, and Chao (" Lord ") Racha Wong Singh governed Yasothon, 1815 – 1823.

There were seven founding members who strove to create a brotherhood that would last long after their college days.

In haste he labored to finish some last abstract paintings: a three-panel frieze, with a flying figure and a fallen figure ; ;

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

As the 87th Congress began its sessions last week, liberal Democrats were ready for a finish fight to open the sluice gates controlled by the House Rules Committee and permit the free flow of liberal legislation to the floor.

They are en route to finish last in the major leagues.

Behind an improved defense the team would finish 7 – 9 in 1983, but it would be their last season in Baltimore.

The Wizards would finish the 1999 season with a disastrous record of 8 – 24, which put them in last place in the Western Conference once again.

After coming within a few plays of Super Bowl XLIV, Minnesota ended the 2010 season with a 6 – 10 record and a last place finish in the NFC North for the first time since 1990.

The Brewers were in contention to repeat in 1983, but the team fell on a rough September to finish in 4th place with an 87 – 75 record, their last winning season until 1987.

In Bologna, he was commissioned to finish the carving of the last small figures of the Shrine of St. Dominic, in the church dedicated to that saint.

During the last year of this Civil War, 1949, the United States increased its military aid to the Greek Government by introducing a new weapon to finish off the war: napalm B.

The 2011 NFL season for the Eagles was a major disappointment, as they only managed to finish 8-8 and did not qualify for the playoffs, although they did win the last 4 games of the season.

This last variant managed a 7th place overall finish and spent the least time out of any other car in the pits.

The Padres would finish dead last in the strike-shortened 1994 season, but Gwynn hit. 394 that year ( the most since Ted Williams hit over. 400 in 1941 ).

Many preseason predictions picked the Padres in 2010 to finish the season in last place in the NL West.

But after head coach Tom Landry settled on Staubach, the Cowboys won their last seven regular season games to finish with an 11 – 3 record.

This was the last Super Bowl to kickoff as early as 2: 00 p. m. ( EST ), thereby allowing a finish time before commencement of many of the nation's evening church services.

This was the first Super Bowl game to match both conference's # 1 seeds, and was the last Super Bowl ( and first one held in the Rose Bowl ) to finish under daylight.

Keirin races involve pacing 6 – 9 riders with a motorcycle until the last lap and a half when a sprint for the finish determines the winner.

After the ballet had been composed, it emerged during the 1867 rehearsal period that, without further cuts, the opera would not finish before midnight ( the time by which patrons would need to leave in order to catch the last trains to the Paris suburbs ).

After a series of operettas, Leoncavallo tried for one last serious effort ( Edipo Re ), but he died before he could finish the orchestration, which was completed by Giovanni Pennacchio.

At age 62, it was Snead's third consecutive top ten finish at the PGA Championship, but his last time in contention at a major.

Races last approximately 45 minutes, each race a sprint from start to finish without pitting for fuel or tyres.

The last year in which Villeneuve would win a championship level race and finish the season in the top three was 1997.

In 2009 he was invited again to run in two out of the three major races in the season: one at Interlagos on July 19 ( did not finish after contact with Leonel Pernía and spun ) and the other being the second edition of La Carrera del Año at the Buenos Aires circuit on September 20, the last mentioned race being its better results in the series, finishing 13th.