Example sentences of "in years [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without exactly being in the ‘ stop — go ’ cycle of Selwyn Lloyd or the ‘ hard slog ’ of Roy Jenkins in years gone by , Britain 's posture in the later Thatcher period still seemed to reflect the historic structural weakness of former years . |
| 2 | In years gone by , the impact of set-nets on the dolphins may have been even more serious . |
| 3 | This compact mill now forms a fascinating time capsule and gives a valuable insight into the life and workings of a small country mill in years gone by . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In years gone by the club chairman brought a certain local charm to the game ; there was Jan Stepek of Hamilton Accies who made his fortune from renting TV sets to Motherwell 's seething masses , Hal Stewart who forced Morton to play in day-glo orange , and Old Man Dayell , the west-coast food magnate whose personal fortune was amassed selling half-time mutton pies then partially squandered trying to turn Airdrie into AC Milan . |
| 6 | I do believe that in years gone by they paid the annual rent for Low Birk Hatt by spinning and knitting . |
| 7 | For a longer period than in years gone by they can expect to be on their own together . |
| 8 | Among this lot we have Belushi 's married partner Steve Frayn ( Tony Goldwyn ) who also partakes of Ms Bracco , an ambitious brother running for senate , played by William Russ , and a comatose mother in a wheelchair ( Harriet Grinnell ) who was apparently not averse to a spot of child sex abuse in years gone by . |
| 9 | In a clear reference to past failures by an Association which has , in years gone by , been unwilling to respond positively either to anything which is not of its own making , or anybody who is not on its payroll , Pickard went on to state , ‘ If we do not respond , for whatever reasons , keep knocking at the door until someone answers . ’ |
| 10 | But many of the present-day problems in schools are the result of factors which did not exist in years gone by . |
| 11 | ‘ In years gone by — as late as the 1950s — a lot of members were wealthy people , ’ says George Wilson , the R&A 's deputy secretary . |
| 12 | In years gone by , some say , the Bank 's governor ( Eddie George , from July ) would have stopped the rot by calling somebody in to his office for tea . |
| 13 | The show , the biggest and best yet , featured not only competitions but continued with its farming and countryside theme , which has been popularised in years gone by . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're getting mixed up with one of your ‘ In Years Gone By ’ columns . ’ |
| 15 | Would you like to become a journalist for an hour or so , and copy out one or two ‘ In Years Gone By columns for us from the files ? |
| 16 | Dyson set Morris to work copying out the extracts for the ‘ In Years Gone By ’ column . |
| 17 | Steadily , quietly , electrically , Erskine Morris typed the ‘ In Years Gone By ’ column several weeks into the future . |
| 18 | There had never been so much ‘ In Years Gone By ’ copy set , or so much waiting to be set . |
| 19 | It was in this way that he discovered that not all Morris 's application with the typewriter was devoted to ‘ In Years Gone By . ’ |
| 20 | Anyway , poor old Eddy did ‘ In Years Gone By ’ for over ten years . |
| 21 | In years gone by there had been some clever dogs in Baldersdale . |
| 22 | On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles . |
| 23 | And in years gone by , I understand that some of it was used to electrocute the criminals . |
| 24 | In working in years gone by with proprietary applications we 've been able to rely to a large extent on security facilities provided by the operating system . |
| 25 | A must for all who know B.C. or may have visited the area and to anyone interested in the many facets of rural life as it was in years gone by ( ISBN 0951596403 , price £5.95 ) . |
| 26 | Alternatively , it may have been a commoner infection in past generations and the high prevalence of antibody titres in elderly people may reflect their greater exposure to the infection in years gone by ; in other words , a cohort effect . |
| 27 | In years gone by , it was like ninety nine per cent |
| 28 | In years gone by , emptying the larder of flour , milk and eggs was the traditional way of starting the fast of Lent . |
| 29 | The inevitable result is that a plant young in years becomes old and senile in form and shape . |
| 30 | Swindon Town against Newcastle United … the battle of the giants … the County Ground was bursting with its biggest crowd in years to see the gladiators of the first division … |