Example sentences of "[adv] in year " in BNC.
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1 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
2 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
3 | to say that if er , it is not a SAT year , we are obliged to say these levels have not been confirmed by SATs so the only in year nine we , we do n't need to say that . |
4 | Yet it was not beyond the power of reason and foresight to know that the days of the Indian Empire were numbered , if not in years , still in decades : the best and the wisest of the British in India had known and said it from the beginning . |
5 | He was again conscious of where he was : in the room of his own apartment , on the third floor of a large house , he was sitting on this Sunday afternoon , an ageing man , old not in years , but in their disappointments . |
6 | Thus in years when lemmings and other small rodents are plentiful ( see below ) , owls , skuas , jaegers and other aerial predators fare well and raise many offspring . |
7 | Diana had been very young when she married Charles , and not just in years . |
8 | The answer to it I just do n't know , but the Food Safety Act deals with some of the future , some of the future objectives in terms of better training for people who handle food , and tighter controls on food businesses , so it 's something to look forward to , and hopefully in years to come the figure will begin to drop . |
9 | Incidentally , Mr Burniston reports there is a big increase in the number of ladies running clubs and reckons there will be even more in years to come . |
10 | It is in considering the nature of teaching and learning , early in Year 1 , that the relevance of teacher and pupil language is introduced to students . |
11 | He is also in Year 10 , due to the costs of schooling , so I would like to help his to continue his education . |
12 | We dog-legged out to Pigeon Point Fort , which had defended the island rather unsuccessfully in years gone by : it changed hands 20 times , mainly between Britain and France . |
13 | I would imagine so , yeah , I think , then you pick them up in year three if you want to . |
14 | Mrs Cartwright was getting on in years , shapeless as a stuffed pillow , hands and arms scarred with the shiny tissue of a myriad burns , and eyes seemingly closed against a lifetime of hissing steam . |
15 | But even diaries of terror , such as have been published from the records of survivors or victims of totalitarian regimes , were rarely written simply for the author to look back on in years to come — for European Jews there was rarely much hope of any future . |
16 | Copland — was , at 44 , getting on in years for commando work , but as a works manager in civilian life he had the experience of technical organisation needed for such ventures . |
17 | As soon as he was out of uniform , Connor applied to take over the management of the public-house from his parents — Mam and Da were getting on in years , and Da was n't a well man — but the Brewery were not prepared to lease the pub to a bachelor . |
18 | Quite a number of the people you speak to will be getting on in years and have lost their sharpness of hearing . |
19 | Now that he was getting on in years he wanted to take things just that little bit easy , not see patient after patient , cramming in as many as possible , but space them out — eight , ten a day was enough — for with his practice so long established and his clientele so solid he could n't imagine any reason to fear blanks in his appointments book . |
20 | Getting on in years , he might well have considered the possibility of never seeing his homeland again . |
21 | I then er , we then broke away and went up to the er , I suppose it 's the , I do n't know what part of the , but it 's the Dales , that 's where I moved to then and then to because my dad could n't , getting on in years , he could n't take the hills up and then from I got married and we moved into this address here and then that was the day after war was declared that I got married . |
22 | She was getting on in years , and I was very fond of her . ’ |
23 | He was and because he was getting on in years and er did n't get out as much as usual , my husband said we 'd get a television for him and we had a black and white television |
24 | They 're still big , still noisy , but getting on in years and with a diminishing role thanks to the peace dividend . |
25 | Perhaps that 's old fashioned but then I 'm getting on in years . ’ |
26 | You may not want to risk breeding from such a mare , especially if she is getting on in years . |
27 | The implication from the provision and s741 is if the Revenue have not actually charged the income when it arose in year 1 and it is paid out in year 3 , the only charge under s739 would be in year 3 when the monies are paid out . |
28 | Oh , first time I 've been out in years on a Friday . |
29 | For example , if a small light rapid transit system ( project A ) costs £1000000 and its cash inflows are £300000 per annum , the project will be paid back in year 4 , as shown in table 5.1 . |
30 | Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ . |