Sentences with phrase «several years before his death»

For several years before his death, Dr. Lee was the editor and chief writer of the John R. Lee M.D. Medical Letter.

This interview by Steve Swires was conducted several years before her death and the post-humous release of The Empire Strikes Back, her final screen credit.

Matter's persistence and precision of mark making bound to a color palette not divorced from its fauvist lineage, is apparent in paintings made in her youth up to several years before her death.

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Soon after his death Islam spread / invaded N. Africa and Spain... 350 years before the launch of the first Christian Crusade... and made several attempts at the Balkans over roughly a thousand years....

According to Davison Budhoo, an economist who had worked with both the World Bank and the IMP before he quit the latter in protest against its policies, on the basis of the figures released by UNICEF, it is estimated that those policies led directly to the death of 70 million children under 5 years in the Third World between the years 1982 - 1990 and indirectly to the destitution and impoverishment of several hundred millions more 8.

This year was the 40th anniversary of Paper Lion, and The Lyons Press seized on the occasion — several months before George Plimpton's sudden death in September at age 76 — to reissue, in elegant paperbacks, his six enduring sports books.

Within science, the first signs that the ANC was winning its fight came several years before 2 February 1990, when President FW de Klerk announced the impending death of apartheid.

Through a five - year National Eye Institute R01 grant totaling more than $ 2.6 million, they will investigate several aspects of how EDN induces neurodegeneration and cell death and how these mechanisms might be targeted therapeutically for early disease prevention, before nerve damage and cell death has occurred.

The relationship between attitude, outlook, mood, and breast cancer is up for debate, but a recent Israeli study of women under the age of 45 found that exposure to several stressful life events, such as the divorce or death of parents before 20 years of age, was associated with breast cancer.

«After 20 - plus years of being clean and sober, he reportedly snorted heroin several months before his death, and his addiction returned full - blown.»

I retired to travel with my late husband mr lott who worked in Kuwait as a driller His death a year and a half ago was sudden and unexpected and rocked me to my core but I know he would want me to move on now Before retiring I built several...

A Lover's Discourse was published in 1977, three years before Barthes's death and eleven years before Denis made her first feature, and he was certainly a known quantity among the Parisian cinephile generation of the 1970s, when Denis was coming of age — for example, before starring in Jean Eustache's The Mother and the Whore (1973), Françoise Lebrun was a contributor to his journal Communications, and several critics, including Alain Philippon, have speculated as to Barthes's influence on the lovers» dialogues in Eustache's movie.

Before the madness subsided later that year, 19 women and men had been hanged at Gallows Hill, several others had died in prison, and an 80 - year - old man was crushed to death under heavy stones for refusing to stand trial.

This recent Carone revival continued with successive shows in New York around his drawings, paintings and sculptures, and the publication of several articles and features on that work in the years before his death in 2010.

In June 1967, a full 50 years later, and several months before Duchamp's death, Sol LeWitt published «Paragraphs on Conceptual Art» in Artforum.

The exhibition consists of 105 drawings — comprising nearly one acre of wall surface — that LeWitt created over 40 years from 1968 to 2007 and includes [citation needed] several drawings never before seen, some of which LeWitt created for the project shortly before his death.

Recently issued policies must typically be in force for several years before the policy's cash value reaches the point at which the death benefit begins to increase.

However, if the policy has been owned for several years before the insured passes away, the named beneficiary (or beneficiaries) will receive the full amount of the policy's death benefit proceeds.

Within five years of the father's death, the businesses was bankrupt, whereas it could have sold it for several million dollars just five years before.