Example sentences of "[adj] years [conj] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey of earnings in the tax year 1976–1977 made by the Bar for the purpose of its evidence to the Royal Commission on Legal Services showed that the net fees of junior barristers ( before provision for pension , sickness insurance , indemnity insurance and national insurance contributions ) averaged £7,319 , but for barristers who had been only three years or less in practice were only £2,769 . |
| 2 | Top 20th Century photographer Horst is featured on Omnibus : Sixty Years And Still In Vogue . |
| 3 | In the post-war years and partly in consequence of much local redevelopment , congregations declined and the church was eventually declared redundant in the early 1980s . |
| 4 | Finally , the mortality rate is such that although toads can live for 40 years or more in captivity , only about 1 per cent of the population live to be eight years or more in the wild . |
| 5 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |