Example sentences of "in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim Callaghan 's response was that he ‘ had never in fifty years been so depressed as a trade unionist ’ . |
| 2 | In fifty years from then began the great wave of late Victorian building , which has so altered the appearance of places like Ambleside , especially if one compares old Church Street or the Market Place in Green 's time , to 1860 , and with what it has become today . |
| 3 | In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals . |
| 4 | " That 'll take a bashing on a hard shore and never a crack in fifty years . |
| 5 | His complaint is a more general one about the lack of respect for custom and the gradual constriction of his world that has taken place in fifty years . |
| 6 | I can see from what you 've just told me that things have changed rather a lot in fifty years . |
| 7 | What he saw would n't change Wellington 's thinking : it had n't in fifty years , so why should it now ? |
| 8 | Rainbow wonders if , in fifty years , she and her cousin Michael will be part of anybody 's family stories . |
| 9 | Ask them in fifty years or so , |
| 10 | So anyone who wants to study competition , travel and world capitalism in the 1980s for a PhD programme in fifty years time had better take a good look now . |
| 11 | That our strike record is the best in fifty years . |
| 12 | Looking ahead our present rate of growth will give us a national output three times as high in fifty years |
| 13 | But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ? |
| 14 | In fifty years time I could be married . |
| 15 | He expected in normal years a clear trading profit of £400 . |
| 16 | Supplied in normal years by the South and the East , it extended to the North and even to Cornwall in years of short supply . |
| 17 | It is probable that the prophylactic regimens of control currently recommended for the control of gastrointestinal nematodes in sheep will , in normal years , be effective to a large extent in suppressing D. filaria infection . |
| 18 | It is true , of course , that for the first time in 75 years , Russia now has in place the mechanisms of national democracy — a government whose president has been elected and a parliament able to enforce , by argument and voting , restraints on what the government does , as well as a constitutional court . |
| 19 | Will we object in 75 years if our ancestor 's medical records become publicly accessible ? |
| 20 | ‘ It is the first time in eleven years as a manager that I have not worked with a contract and it is like an air of freedom . ’ |
| 21 | After being thrown out of 14 schools in eleven years , at the sweet and tender age of 16 , the boy who grew up to be Rambo , side-stepped into his father 's beauty parlour business . |
| 22 | He had already imposed his personality upon the country in a way that Bonar Law in eleven years of intermittent Conservative leadership had never succeeded in doing . |
| 23 | Not only did the North lose 1.3 million factory jobs in eleven years ( 31.6 per cent of employment in manufacturing and 63 per cent more than the number lost in the South ) but , as a result , the growth of other sectors and female employment was slower than in the South . |
| 24 | It was feared that landlords and rich peasants had en entered the Party erm but wh which had increased from tens of thousands to two point seven million in eleven years . |
| 25 | In eleven years to 1990 there was no coherent national programme of education and training . |
| 26 | But to our disgust , and as Nigel mentioned , also that we have seen a demise of factory inspectors , and this is borne out by the fact that figures at the present time show that an average workplace can be expected to be visited once in eleven years . |
| 27 | The registration of births , marriages and deaths has been compulsory since the middle of last century and is used to supplement census figures in intervening years . |
| 28 | Moreover luck sometimes prevented the family conflicts of the Merovingians from getting out of hand : accident of survival meant that the kingdom was united in 558 , when Chlothar I was left as the only surviving son of Clovis , and was able to unite the regnum Francorum for the first time in forty-seven years . |
| 29 | In leaner years , the branch might have folded without the hard work put in by Sam Parker , and the award of this certificate will be applauded by all who know him . |
| 30 | In eight years of operation , the VSOE charter train has not strayed far from its original concept . |