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

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

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.

Modifications of the last technique have been applied by several groups of investigators.

These incidents, typical of many others, dramatize the distressing fact that no controversy during the last several decades has caused more tension, rancor and strife among religious groups in this country than the birth-control issue.

Mr. Bourcier said that he had consulted several Superior Court justices in the last week and received opinions favoring both procedures.

Conceding that several cities to the north were in worse shape than Baltimore after the last storm, Mr. Schaefer listed several improvements he said should be made in the snow plan here.

Due to this difference in epistemology, anthropology as a discipline has lacked cohesion over the last several decades.

One seed-to-seed life cycle for an annual can occur in as little as a month in some species, though most last several months.

Twice in the year the superiors of the several coenobia met at the chief monastery, under the presidency of an archimandrite (" the chief of the fold ," from miandra, a sheepfold ), and at the last meeting gave in reports of their administration for the year.

In several texts, the luminary Eleleth is the last of the luminaries ( Spiritual Lights ) that come forward, and it is the Aeon Sophia, associated with Eleleth, who encounters darkness and becomes involved in the chain of events that leads to the Demiurge's rule of this world, and the salvage effort that ensues.

During his reign, Spain lost its last colonies in the Americas ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ) and the Philippines ; fought and, after several setbacks, won a war in Morocco ; witnessed the start of the Spanish Generation of 1927, and endured the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

After several victories he was at last completely defeated ( 307 BC ) and fled secretly to Sicily.

Chios, the greatest and most powerful of the original members of the Delian League save Athens, was the last to revolt, and in the aftermath of the Syracusan Expedition enjoyed a success of several years, inspiring all of Ionia to revolt.

* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

In the nineteenth century Samuel Sebastian Wesley ( 1810 – 1876 ) wrote anthems influenced by contemporary oratorio which stretch to several movements and last twenty minutes or longer.

During the last glacial period of the Würm glaciation, the Black Forest was covered by glaciers ; several tarns ( or lakes ) such as the Mummelsee are remains of this period.

In France he was considered as the restorer of the art, which had declined after the time of Louis XIV, and during the last twenty years of his life the French government commissiond him to undertake several works.

BCS derived several important theoretical predictions that are independent of the details of the interaction, since the quantitative predictions mentioned below hold for any sufficiently weak attraction between the electrons and this last condition is fulfilled for many low temperature superconductors-the so-called weak-coupling case.

If left untreated, an episode of hypomania can last anywhere from a few days to several years.

It alternated in its time slot with several other shows but was the only one to last beyond its first season.

Over the last several years, Chile has signed FTAs with the European Union, South Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, China, and Japan.

However, traditional films have frequently had much of the same sort of the issues to deal with ; film shoots may last several months and as scenes are frequently shot out of story sequence, footage shot weeks apart may be edited together as part of the same day's action in the completed film.

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.

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.

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.