Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 2 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
| 3 | The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific . |
| 4 | He realized the boy had grown in the two months since he had last seen him and looked at him carefully , noticing the way his wrists poked out of the shirt and the slight roughness of the clear skin . |
| 5 | Some marketing commentators also take the view that the objective of successful marketing has changed in the 1980s . |
| 6 | Sensuality had disappeared in the Fifties ; except maybe for Elvis , you did n't see much of it . |
| 7 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 8 | Lloyd George 's attempt to wrest the initiative for his party by a bold espousal of Keynesian economics had failed in the 1929 general election . |
| 9 | That is hardly surprising , as the crime rate has doubled in the 12 years since the Conservative party was elected on a promise of law and order . |
| 10 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 11 | He urged the unemployed of the north to ‘ get on your bike ’ and look for work , as his window-cleaner father had done in the thirties . |
| 12 | But one area of the bank 's policy remained stuck in the thirties . |
| 13 | Resignations in controlled schools in the Western Area have doubled in the two years since 1990 . |
| 14 | This trend has persisted in the 1980s ; by 1989 the mean age at marriage stood at 24.8 for women and 26.9 for men . |
| 15 | By the early 1980s ‘ PLO nationalism ’ was declining in credibility as Arab nationalism had done in the 1970s . |
| 16 | A lot has happened in the seven months since Ford unveiled its new Escort range — and not much of it in accordance with its £1 billion master plan . |
| 17 | In 1954 Fairfield Osborn warned his countrymen : ‘ We Americans have used more of the world 's resources in the past forty years than all the people in the world had used in the four thousand years up to 1914 . |
| 18 | Simultaneously with the preparation of the new housing benefit scheme , the Government began operating a policy of significantly increasing the level of council house rents , and a threefold increase has occurred in the nine years since 1979 ( House of Commons Library Note , 19 July 1988 ) . |
| 19 | To help their children benefit from schooling , parents need to understand what happens in school , to appreciate that methods of teaching have changed in the 15 or 20 years since they were themselves pupils in an infant or junior classroom . |