Example sentences of "[adv] in the [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This , again , will have fallen somewhat in the following two years . ) |
| 2 | Nor does the evidence of a renewed upsurge of potentially revolutionary protest from below in the immediate pre-war years suggest that this source of their inhibition would fade with time . |
| 3 | Important advances in cellular immunology and molecular biology , especially in the past 10 years , have largely clarified the immunological paradox of pregnancy , but not yet definitively explained how the ‘ foreign ’ fetus survives to term without provoking maternal immune rejection . |
| 4 | But nowhere were they more pronounced , and rather than fading as the economy developed they appear to have been becoming deeper in the immediate pre-war years . |
| 5 | This was especially so in the early post-war years . |
| 6 | So in the past few years since Big Bang we have seen dealers chasing every hare , especially since dealing volumes declined and firms have been more desperate to do business . |
| 7 | So in the past few years , I have given a speech which has has drawn attention to the the deficit on our General Fund and our need for continued care , to reduce the deficit . |
| 8 | Look at it now , it 's gone right the way back now , with all that land being reclaimed and warehousing and you name it and docks , new docks , so in the past ten years , what a massive development that has become . |
| 9 | She was thirty-nine now , and it was only in the past two years that she had put on weight . |
| 10 | The logic circuitry needed to generate and decode signals of this kind has become available only in the past 10 years or so . |
| 11 | Rio Tinto has bought into all the mines only in the past few years ; and it has its sights set on expansion . |
| 12 | It is only in the past few years that a good understanding of these types of collision has emerged , and it is only a year since Tiesinga et al . |
| 13 | There had been earlier studies of women writers , notably Myra Reynolds 's The Learned Lady in England 1650–1760 ( 1920 ) , and occasional studies of individual writers , but only in the past twenty years have the conditions obtained for a comprehensive reexamination of these writers . |
| 14 | Flotation has become properly developed only in the past 30 years : it was certainly not available to the ‘ old men ’ who ran the mines last century . |
| 15 | ‘ She has worked harder than all the others put together in the past few years . |
| 16 | Action has been taken , not just in the past few years but consistently by successive Governments since 1904 , to inhibit tobacco consumption by children . |
| 17 | Hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost in Leicester , the midlands and elsewhere in the past 13 years , yet the Government have done nothing to support the industry . |
| 18 | The design and build group , established in 1988 , specialises in healthcare developments and has grown quickly in the past four years . |
| 19 | Almost single handedly in the past three years Jones has made high technology and the ‘ sunrise ’ industries household words and created a climate of industrial and community awareness . |
| 20 | More than once in the past 50 years the concept of readability measurement and prediction has been castigated as facile and simplistic , despite the earnest attempts of most readability researchers themselves to portray their work in a balanced and untendentious way . |
| 21 | Complaints about noise have increased tenfold in the past fifteen years , and all the signs are that the problem is still getting worse . |
| 22 | There were times — notably in the immediate postwar years and during the early 1970s — when it seemed that the gap between the two halves of the country was beginning to narrow ( Damesick and Wood , 1987 ) , but with the benefit of hindsight it is seen that these were periods when special factors were operating ( McCrone , 1969 ; Massey , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | Its overseas staff has risen three-fold in the past five years , to 75 analysts . |
| 24 | ‘ The whole system of national training has improved enormously in the past few years , ’ Marshall said . |
| 25 | The actual differences between the highest paid and the lowest paid have in fact changed only marginally in the past thirty years , and it is still broadly true that the richest 1 per cent of income earners enjoy a gross pay which is about four times greater than they would receive if income were to be equally distributed among the total working population . |
| 26 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that it is often precisely those authorities that complain most about not being able to use capital receipts which have used the most in the past few years ? |
| 27 | ‘ But if long-term improvements in economic performance are determined largely by the supply side , we have seen all too often in the past 20 years how short-term prospects can be blown off course by inflation . |
| 28 | ‘ The truth , about which we spoke so often in the past few years , has been reaffirmed once again — where there is a delay in dealing with overripe problems , excesses are inevitable , ’ Gorbachev said in the Tass transcript of his speech . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that these perceptions have altered radically in the past 20 years , with the improvements in computer power needed for solving real problems ( see Box 1 ) . |
| 30 | However , the world had " changed radically in the past few years " and there was an increased demand , felt throughout the UN system , for " intervention in response to local crisis , often at the expense of long-term development " . |