Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [adj] years [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence from sea-bed sediment cores suggests that , in the 1.8 million years since the start of the Pleistocene , the temperate and polar regions have passed through a dozen or more warm-cold cycles caused primarily by changes in levels of incident radiation . |
| 2 | A lot of gargoyles have deteriorated more in the last 70–80 years than in the preceding 200 years because of the pollution . |
| 3 | Case D , although ranked 3 , earns 7000 more in the first 2 years than case C , which is ranked 1 . |
| 4 | Case D , although ranked 3 , earns 7000 more in the first 2 years than case C , which is ranked 1 . |
| 5 | In the few short years since AIDS came to dominate our lives , we have created a network of caring , service-providing charities , pioneered imaginative public health campaigns and pushed the government and medical profession to take the threat of AIDS seriously . |
| 6 | While civil conflicts of this kind should diminish in the next twenty-five years as African states mature , they will not disappear . |
| 7 | Other findings were that 67 per cent think standards will decline in the next few years if things carry on as they are and that 77 per cent agree teachers do a good job in spite of everything . |
| 8 | However , much closer co-operation between the two bodies will be required in the next few years if rational decisions are to be made across the whole sector of higher education . |
| 9 | ‘ The broadcasting environment will change dramatically in the next few years as new channels and broadcasters emerge in the commercial sector . |
| 10 | ‘ The broadcasting environment will change dramatically in the next few years as new channels and broadcasters emerge in the commercial sector . |
| 11 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 12 | People who committed crimes in the past 10 years while on bail would have to provide good reasons why they should be released . |
| 13 | of men working full-time has never been wider in the past 100 years than it is today . |
| 14 | In 1954 Fairfield Osborn warned his countrymen : ‘ We Americans have used more of the world 's resources in the past forty years than all the people in the world had used in the four thousand years up to 1914 . |
| 15 | Several groups have tried to locate the wreck in the past 20 years since technology made possible the recovery of its contents . |
| 16 | In the last five years since he set up his consultancy from his Bayswater home with a £20,000 overdraft and a stack of letterhead stationery , he has insisted that he will only work for causes in which he believes , and these causes are , by and large , left-wing . |
| 17 | Colour printers have spread rapidly in the last five years as their price has fallen . |
| 18 | The region has a long history of human activity ( section 3.2.1 ) , and although erosion has always been a problem it has intensified considerably in the last 100 years as deforestation has accelerated and grasslands have been degraded . |
| 19 | Soon after this incident Richard emerges from the obscurity which had surrounded his movements in the last two years since he knelt in homage at Montmirail . |
| 20 | Less than a year later the Technical Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) was announced , and this , though still organized by the MSC , was a scheme that started with pupils at school , in the last two years before their compulsory attendance at school came to an end , and continued until they were 18 . |
| 21 | ‘ We have had more fan mail in the last two years than we ever did in the previous 30 , ’ Gerald says . |
| 22 | Meanwhile as my visits to South Africa showed me in such a traumatic and depressing way the conditions of the majority have got worse there 's economic recession lay-offs , high inflation rate and growing violence more people have been killed in South Africa in the last two years than in any previous two years that you look at . |
| 23 | But it is a feudalism where inequalities and poverty have been intensified by British colonialism and which has in the last thirty-seven years since independence been in a state of flux caused by the varying stages of capitalism which reach out to it from the towns and cities of the Indian sub-continent . |
| 24 | The Foreign Secretary said : ‘ My right honourable friend knows that I have spent quite a lot of time in the last four years as Home Secretary , with his full support , trying to plug loopholes , trying to keep our immigration control strict and fair . |
| 25 | There have been more cancelled and postponed competitions here in the last few years than live ones — all of which reflects badly on the BMC as controllers . |
| 26 | In the United Kingdom , the Publishers Association report roughly a 9 per cent growth in the British book market in the last few years while electronic sectors are showing growth rates of around 20 per cent . |
| 27 | He told delegates : ‘ A lot of good people , good socialists have been deluded into joining the SNP in the last few years because they thought that was the best way to defeat the Tory government . |
| 28 | Now I suppose that kind of model of what goes on in families has been disrupted a bit in the last few years because increasingly people have drawn attention to the way in which um often the person doing the abuse is the most powerful person within that family situation . |
| 29 | Staff turnover has been high in the last few years as school closure has loomed closer . |
| 30 | But it has probably changed more in the last 40 years than at any other time . |