Example sentences of "[noun] in the [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 2 | Carroll House was the second Italian-owned winner of the Arc in the two years it has been sponsored by the Italian hotel chain Ciga . |
| 3 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 4 | Or the record of the respectable opinion in the pre-war years which was already bewailing the corruption of morals and the decline of standards ? |
| 5 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 6 | Because of our experience at Scone Park and in many other projects in the twelve years we have been working with young offenders , we , along with the other children 's charities , oppose the government 's proposals on persistent young offenders . |
| 7 | I went out half a dozen times in the three years we were married . |
| 8 | But while the advocacy of many of these proposals drew upon long-term developments in social and political thought , it was the economic situation in the inter-war years which forced many to address the question of how the endemic problems of overcapacity in basic industries , structural unemployment and the evident failure of laissez-faire to preserve national prosperity could be overcome . |
| 9 | In this case it was a book , entitled ‘ Andrew and Fergie — the newly weds ’ , this was handed over to for her good attendance in the four years which she had gone to Little Stonham Primary School . |
| 10 | Above : The Saunders ' kitchen has had three different looks in the 16 years they have lived here , each created by John , an architectural interior engineer . |
| 11 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 12 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |