Example sentences of "the [noun sg] in [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The facts though are clear : Kleon in the fifth century and Demosthenes in the fourth are found tin the Council in specially exciting years for foreign affairs , 427 and 346 , the years of the Mytilene Debate and the Peace of Philokrates respectively ( pp. 130 , 253 ) . |
| 2 | A farmer has been using four oxen to plough a field in what 's believed to be the first public demonstration of the skill in almost twenty-five years . |
| 3 | In the end , the main contractor was the West German company Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nurnberg , which completed the job in roughly two years . |
| 4 | Erm that is an area where , that and road traffic accidents which has grown considerably in , in the time that I 've been in the service in more recent years , which has become more sophisticated , the equipment has become more sophisticated , the techniques have had to be developed to deal with them and firemen are becoming more expert in , in handling these er er situations with , with equipment er which is much more technical , and , and er |
| 5 | Details of recent deaths and horrific injuries suffered by boxers are catalogued in the report the second from the BMA report on the subject in almost 10 years . |
| 6 | BLACKBURN 'S Kevin Moran has been through the lot in nearly 20 years as a top class defender . |
| 7 | There had been three deaths in the family in as many years . |