Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |