Sentence examples for years of composition from inspiring English sources

Having completed three years of composition, Levi's not going back for the final year.

Thus, even in the unlikely event that, after years of composition, a writer believes he has managed to say something pertinent, the clock continues to tick, threatening obsolescence.

Finnegans Wake was published in book form, after seventeen years of composition, on 4 May 1939.

The book was finally published by Faber and Faber on 4 May 1939, after seventeen years of composition.

And Godwin seems to borrow the concept of using a flock of strong, trained birds to fly Gonsales to the Moon from Francis Bacon's Sylva sylvarum ("Natural History"), published in July 1626, all evidence in favour of McColley's generally accepted dating of "1626 29, with the probable years of composition 1627 28".

It happens that the year of composition, 1885, was the year in which an amendment to an act of parliament made homosexual acts between men a criminal offence.

According to a recent analysis of the New York Metropolitan Opera's programming, of the approximately 24,000 performances staged at the Met in the past 100 years, the average year of composition of its productions has remained almost unchanged throughout that period: about 1,870.

It's their year of composition, 1917, that links the four works for violin and piano in Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Huw Watkins' collection, all by composers who had either not been affected by the rise of modernism in the previous decade at all, or in Debussy's case, who had played a crucial part in it but had taken his own music in a different direction of its own.

In those years manuals of composition (inshāʾ) were written elaborating the technique of secretarial correspondence, and they grew into an accepted genre in Arabic as well as in Persian and Turkish literature.

Grossman's challenge over the ten years of its composition seems nearly insuperable: to evoke the scope and magnitude of the conflict without turning his characters into cogs in a vast military machine.

Ellison, it was said, had lost touch with his roots and his primal energies and had betrayed himself and his race and thereby deserved his punishment in the form of years of futile composition.