Example sentences of "but in the [adj] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the first two years of the 1990s the slump in housebuilding and property plunged the group into a hole which has turned into a chasm , as yesterday 's record £69m losses reveal . |
| 2 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
| 3 | It is still in the working out of that complex moral equation that the challenge lies , but in the two hundred years since Burke , we are little nearer to finding a wholly adequate , much less ideal , solution . |
| 4 | But in the following two years this proportion rose to an average of more than 10 per cent . |
| 5 | In 1183 Mercadier was just the commander of yet another of the bands of routiers which were busily spreading havoc in the southern Limousin , but in the next fifteen years he became the most famous professional soldier in Europe . |
| 6 | That 's right , that 's what you said in in you saying that populations were going , growing geometrically agricultural production was going arithmetically , as a result a population crash is inevitable , alright , but we know that is n't true right , because what , when Marthus was writing , erm , Marthus was writing just before in the agricultural revolution in the U K so agricultural technology had n't improved very much in sort of five hundred years right , but in the next hundred years agricultural production , erm , or productivity grows far faster than erm , than population . |
| 7 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 8 | But in the past five years the economy has been pulled along at an even faster pace than that merited by its industrial over-achievers . |
| 9 | But in the past 10 years physiological and pharmacological laboratories around the world have done a lot of research on acupuncture . |
| 10 | But in the past 2.5 years over 30,000 jobs have gone from the defence industry . |
| 11 | John Evans has covered cricket , football , rugby , tennis , swimming and many other sporting events in the past , but in the last five years has tended to concentrate on athletics . |
| 12 | The stroke works well in boats of this length but in the last six years the average length of kayak has dropped by almost a metre . |
| 13 | You 've got your shop stewards , your activists , you , in my region , we 've got some great officers , the one that I have , Pat is great to work with , but in the last two years , I 've had to get hold of Pat more and more , myself . |
| 14 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
| 15 | But in the last ten years , school history here has grown far more balanced . |
| 16 | But in the last ten years , Britain 's butter consumption has suddenly fallen by about half , and margarine has reached a pinnacle of acceptance . |
| 17 | Their quality and spacing is laid down in the Building Regulations but in the last ten years difficulties have arisen over corrosion , not only in those made of mild steel but also in galvanised ties where the zinc coating is defective . |
| 18 | But in the last ten years , United have thrived on the back of an ambitious youth policy and the curious managerial whims of Jim McLean , Dundee United created a tangerine dream for the '80s , building an impressive and free-flowing side around players like David Narey , Paul Hegarty and Paul Sturrock . |
| 19 | From the end of World War II to the early 1970s there was virtually full employment in developed countries , but in the last ten years the position has changed considerably as shown in fig. 1.11 . |
| 20 | Oxfords and brogue styles have been standard office issue for most of this century , but in the last 30 years the loafer has — thanks to its American and Italian perfectors — become a relaxed and stylish alternative to lace-ups , but there are purists who still harbour doubts about its suitability for the boardroom . |
| 21 | But in the last three years , they have invested more than £500,000 in improving the 30-acre Sunningdale site , adding huge glasshouses and improving the show gardens . |
| 22 | For , not only did the explicit recognition of forward movement in time and the rejection of the idea of endless recurrence originate with Zoroastrianism , but in the last twenty years or so Old Testament scholars have drawn attention to the similarity between some passages in the Old Testament and certain Mesopotamian texts . |
| 23 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |