Example sentences of "[verb] in the [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 2 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 3 | One in six residents of the New Cross estate have been attacked in the past two years , and a quarter have been hit by break-ins , a recent council survey showed . |
| 4 | What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me . |
| 5 | Even the most cursory of examinations of the minutes of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party indicates the feverish activity which was occurring in the immediate post-war years and , in these early days , it was to be expected that mistakes would be made and that new directions would be sought . |
| 6 | A big quake east of the Rocky Mountains — and one greater than magnitude 6 has a 50 to 60 per cent chance of occurring in the next 25 years — could make California 's Loma Prieta seem trifling . |
| 7 | RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s . |
| 8 | Many changes in cataloguing and classification can be expected in the next ten years and these must impinge upon DC , influencing its future function and the way in which the scheme will evolve . |
| 9 | If all the positions occupied in the intervening three years were included , the picture would , of course , be a great deal more complicated . |
| 10 | J.W.B. Douglas ( 1973 ) found that children who have no stressful event reported in the first four years of life ( especially the third and fourth ) are much less likely to wet their beds than children who have experienced these events . |
| 11 | ‘ I have obtained the police accident reports for each junction that you will drive through and have counted all accidents that have been reported in the last three years on any part of the junction . |
| 12 | Tenor tree was only felled in the last ten years — and the stump can still be seen planted with pansies . |
| 13 | 30 per cent of South Africa 's native woodlands have been felled in the last 15-20 years . |
| 14 | If , for example , the bulk of the academic element is contained in the first two years of a course , then the second two can be devoted to developing teaching strategies . |
| 15 | His back catalogue is his best defence ; go and listen to it ( It is , incidentally , being reissued on vinyl ‘ as archive material ’ because Albini believes that the aluminium in CDs will oxidise in the next ten years and the medium — conveniently for record companies — will become defunct ) . |
| 16 | The Minister said that the peak age for offending has risen to 18 from 15 , but he chose the end of the two-year period that I would describe as covering the most vulnerable young people on whom the Government have picked in the past 12 years . |
| 17 | Most cases ( 63% ) of chronic diarrhoea occurred in the first two years of life . |
| 18 | Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late . |
| 19 | Such was the ferment of the times throughout Europe , and such was the rising volume of political controversy within Britain ( bear in mind also the Suffragette agitation and the conflict over the future of Ireland ) , that a more dramatic tipping of the balance than actually occurred in the next few years might have been expected . |
| 20 | We have n't gone , in physics , seriously into trying to understand the biological aspects , but then you see biology is becoming dominated in the last ten years by the understanding of basic biochemistry of cells . |
| 21 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 22 | When I move on to three eight one , three eight two there 's a lot of things been said about these benefits this morning which does n't leave much left for me but looking at the situation of the way this Tory government has in the last thirteen years , certainly since nineteen eighty two crucified the benefits paid genuinely to people is in itself a crime upon society and it reminds me of the the words of the song it 's the rich that get the gravy and it 's the poor that get the blame and nothing , but nothing has changed since those words were written many many years ago . |
| 23 | It consists of a fortuitous , almost accidental , alliance between a particular fraction of development capital and New Right political reformers , not always particularly clearly articulated , which has in the last few years managed to don the cloak of inner city concern . |
| 24 | Fifteenth- and sixteenth-century maiolica has in the last few years returned to popularity ( the recent exhibition of the maiolica collections of the Metropolitan Museum was regularly crowded , to the amazement of Met officials ) , though most of its present day collectors are Italian . |
| 25 | Those musical orbits described by the fertile planets of Loose Tubes and the Jazz Warriors dominated the polls , with Andy Sheppard continuing to make his individual mark as he has in the past two years . |
| 26 | In the case of Skelton , it has in the past ten years experienced significant residential development . |
| 27 | This particular novelty was the third short orchestral piece to appear in the last few years , written , like the second , at Knussen 's prompting , and it rounded off a performance of all three as a suite , titled Three Occasions for Orchestra . |
| 28 | over and above the cost of living in the past 12 years . |
| 29 | So what happens in the last three years ? |
| 30 | Requests to Darlington council for help with housing have tripled in the last three years , according to Labour . |