Example sentences of "that in [adj] years [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 2 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 3 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 4 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 5 | It might be noted at this point that in recent years there has been a dramatic growth in the volume of business conducted in the interbank market and this has become a major source of liquidity for banks . |
| 6 | MI6 remains to this day a secret organisation that does not officially exist despite the fact that in recent years there have been numerous books written about its activities . |
| 7 | Yet research into contemporary demography and statistics soon demonstrates that in recent years there have been dramatic changes in trends and patterns of marriage , divorce and cohabitation . |
| 8 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 9 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |