Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] years [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a lot of talk in recent years about Formula One now being safe , but I think that is dangerous talk . |
| 2 | God knew she had had enough practice in ten years of policing . |
| 3 | The deployment of the new force , initially expected to be confined to Ahmedabad , Aligarh , Allahbad , Darbhanga , Delhi , Ghaziabad , Hyderabad , Jaipur , Meerut and Varanasi , came after the outbreak of some of the worst communal violence in two years between Hindus and Moslems in Bihar , which killed nearly 50 people . |
| 4 | One piece of the inscribed marble base survives with them , and shows that the dedicator was a Sicilian , one of the Deinomenid family who made themselves tyrants in these years of Syracuse and other cities . |
| 5 | Experiences in recent years in New Zealand and Australia suggest that many stranded animals can be saved if certain simple rules are followed . |
| 6 | First battle in 40 years over choice of Speaker |
| 7 | Analysis of a sample of one in 12 claim forms for night visits submitted over one year beginning 1 July 1991 , and estimation of the number of night visits in previous years from data on payment . |
| 8 | SALISBURY have called in psychiatrist Jed Lombard to relax the players for their biggest match in 13 years at Marlow . |
| 9 | That was quite a revelation in those years of juvenilia . |
| 10 | This is the most active expression of citizenship in recent years outwith government . |
| 11 | Trade theory seems of little help , for the advances in recent years of understanding how trade might affect national welfare are offset by limits to the theories in their capacity to yield policy advice that can work in practice ( see , for example , Baldwin , 1988 ; Helpman and Krugman , 1989 ) . |
| 12 | First , there has been a growing number of prosecutions in recent years for injuries resulting from organized matches of Association and Rugby football . |
| 13 | A 9,000 crowd had the satisfaction of seeing Tendulkar make the highest score in 22 years of Sunday League games against Lancashire . |
| 14 | There was significant symbolic value attached to the talks as the first meeting in 30 years between Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , leader of Inkatha , who had once been fellow students at university , and were now the country 's two most influential black leaders . |
| 15 | What do you consider were the gallery 's greatest successes in twenty years of business ? |
| 16 | But the Money advice Trust , set up in 1990 with the aim of raising £9M in three years towards money advice services , has so far received only £275,000 in cash , although another £349,000 has been pledged and staff have been seconded to the value of £450,000 . |
| 17 | The British banger has suffered bad publicity in recent years from Europe . |
| 18 | PLUMBER Alfred Lange , 70 , never gave his wife Gertrud a penny for housekeeping in 40 years of marriage . |
| 19 | McKellar has retired after an incredible run of 17 clubs in 20 years in league soccer — on both sides of the border . |
| 20 | The University 's Careers Service offers careers guidance and job placement facilities to all students at the University in all years of study . |
| 21 | My experience in 14 years of practice is that it is virtually impossible to instigate disciplinary procedures such as the protection afforded workers by their trades union agreements . |
| 22 | Their evidence for this judgement , as with those presented in most of their surveys , was loosely stated and difficult to verify , but the argument has been echoed many times in recent years in Britain by academics and policy-makers alike . |
| 23 | The council elections to be held in Chile in June will provide the first opportunity in 20 years for Chileans to vote against the ‘ eyes and ears ’ of the military dictatorship , according to Maria Antonieta Saa , the human rights activist and Chile 's only woman mayor . |
| 24 | The research attempts to assess the nature and extent of black progress in recent years in light of these issues . |
| 25 | Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects . |
| 26 | Shares in mobile phone operator Vodafone Group Plc rose fivepence to 379p yesterday after the company said that subscriber figures for April gave the company its best month in three years for connections to its network , with net new connections standing at 18,766 ; for the first time since LowCall was launched in October , net new connections to the business base exceeded net new LowCall connections . |
| 27 | And in his opinion that meant sending it all the way to Sotheby 's whose rural saleroom in a stately home in Billingshurst , West Sussex , has made a speciality in recent years of sales of garden furniture , fittings and statuary . |
| 28 | This may be the first piece of half-good news in three years for defence manufacturers who have seen orders for new equipment shrink even faster than national defence budgets ( chart 1 ) . |
| 29 | THE SKATALITES , legendary Jamaican ska outfit , play their first UK gig in 12 years at London 's Finsbury Park George Robey on August 28 . |
| 30 | New Zealand were within 33 runs of their first home Test victory in three years at close of play on the fourth day against Australia in Auckland . |