Sentence examples for the quiet years from inspiring English sources

"The quiet years," is how Mr. Vergne described these last few.

Aspen began a period of steady decline known today as "the quiet years" as mines gradually closed down.

The ensuing decades saw a steady decline in Aspen's population, a period referred to as the "quiet years" of the city's history.

A 2002 book about Welsh churchyards comments that "a pilgrimage undertaken to this churchyard is rewarding", since there is "little to distract and much to suggest the quiet years of Nidan's ministry in this secluded spot".

We must all make a supreme effort to ensure that the winds of change -- sometimes gaining hurricane force -- do not destroy all that humanity has built during the quiet years, and that we do not ourselves get buried under the rubble of political and social edifices that rightfully deserve to crumble and fall.

Their results are in agreement with work of Okeke et al. ([1998]), which used data in the Indian sector during the quiet year of 1986.

Lepidi et al. (2011) investigated the diurnal variation during the quiet year 2006 as observed at six polar observatories, three in the northern, and three in the southern, hemisphere in the geomagnetic latitude range of 77 89 deg.

The long gap between executions made 2012 one of the quietest years on death row, since executions peaked in 1999, according to a study by the Death Penalty Information Center.

"We owe the survival of the character and the quality of the town to those quiet years," Ms. Russell said.

The above photo was taken in 2011, shortly after a stabbing on Ladbroke Grove, and that was a record for the quietest year ever.

The gradual decline of vaccination coverage paralleled the relatively quiet years; it followed the usual bimodal seasonal peaks until influenza A(H1N1 pdm09 virus emerged.