Example sentences of "in most years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shows that while the UK was in deep deficit in trade with the dollar area , in most years this was added to significantly by the deficit of the rest of the sterling area ( broadly speaking , the Dominions minus Canada , plus the colonies , plus a few other countries like Iraq ) . |
| 2 | In most years , rail deaths are few : in some there are none at all . |
| 3 | In most years the updating of the Long-Term Costing , though always difficult , is a relatively gentlemanly struggle between sensible men , trying to squeeze a pint of requirements into a half-pint financial pot , as happens in the budgetary processes of any large organization or commercial conglomerate . |
| 4 | Paradoxically , in most years the outcome of the Defence budgetary process is under-rather than overspending , and this is not because the accounting officers fear the wrath of Parliament , but because of what has become known as the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ , illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 5 | In most years , the blunt instrument of the percentage cut is used to close the final gap when all else has failed . |
| 6 | In most years , levels in southern England exceed the US National Ambient Quality Standard ( 120 ppb for one hour ) . |
| 7 | Environmentalists have complained that in contrast to road-building programmes , for example , no attempt has been made to assess the cost of intangible environmental losses to the community , as against financial benefits to the farmer ; that calculations of benefit have assumed unrealistic yields and excessively speedy rates of take-up by farmers ; that there is a reluctance to design low-level flood protection , even when farmers are getting by with an arable crop in most years ; that the inevitable patching of eroding banks as a river reacts to the engineering constraints put upon it is never allowed for in the costs ; and that the benefits anticipated from a drainage schemes are based on what are known as ‘ farm-gate prices ’ received by farmers for their crops . |
| 8 | This probably represents a fair picture of the more casual breeding season or breeding records , of which a few occur in most years . |
| 9 | Other breeding season records , however , indicate that between five and 10 pairs probably breed in most years . |
| 10 | Status . — A few summer in most years ; regular winter visitor and passage migrant . |
| 11 | Not even the same matches with the same results would have engendered anything like the same degree of atmosphere or emotion had it been staged at a neutral venue , which is what the situation would be in most years if the one or two weeks idea was adopted . |
| 12 | In most years , the Boards had spent more than their budget , and neither Whitehall 's control of the Central Authority , nor the Central Authority 's control over Area Boards and other spending units , was capable of accuracy within margins as large as five per cent ( a margin by no means unusual in the private sector also ) . |
| 13 | Although America 's current account was always in surplus during the 1960s , her net capital outflows , particularly private investments overseas , more than offset the current account surplus in most years . |
| 14 | In most years , the Labour Party also controls most of the metropolitan districts . |
| 15 | Food output increased considerably from 1700 to 1800 , accommodating the needs of a 60 per cent rise in population with , in most years , a small surplus to export . |
| 16 | In most years there were between thirty-three and thirty-five , only eleven of which had a continuous existence over the whole period . |
| 17 | The overall output of the economy , including services , grew at moderate rates in most years of the 1970s ( not 1974 to 1975 or 1979 to 1980 ) , before resuming accelerating rates of growth from 1981 until mid 1989 . |
| 18 | Average cereal prices were seriously higher after 1760 than they had been in the early eighteenth century so there was less fluctuation around the breadline in the first half of the century , but the relief-dependent population was even so probably not much below 10 per cent in most parishes in most years and capable of rising much above that from time to time in localities affected by short-term unemployment of the kind that manufacturing slumps could bring even to the pre-industrial economy . |
| 19 | It has recently been suggested that King overstated the numbers of the really poor because he used too large a multiplier for family size , and that perhaps their proportion of the population was nearer to a seventh in most years . |
| 20 | The essential point to note is that broad money recorded increases significantly above their target limits in most years . |