Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] [adj] years we " in BNC.

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1 In the first two years we will establish 6,000 nursery and after school places and offer staff the chance to choose the hours they work , ’ she said .
2 In the next ten years we shall be fortunate if we witness as productive a period for text research as that which has just ended .
3 In the past few years we have seen conservatories grow in popularity .
4 And in the past few years we 've had to go into clearing as most other universities would do .
5 It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners .
6 In the past three years we have provided NSF with $600 million for the high-performance computing initiative ’ , says Kevin Kelly , an aide to Senator Barbara Mikulski ( Democrat , Maryland ) , who is chair of the appropriations subcommittee that controls the budgets of NSF , NASA , the Environmental Protection Agency and several other agencies .
7 In the past three years we 've adopted a three percent turnover .
8 In the past 50 years we 've done a great deal of abolition .
9 In the past 20 years we have gained enormously from our membership of the Community .
10 In the last 10 years we 've created more jobs than ever before , higher living standards than ever before , better social services than ever before , higher living …
11 In the last fifteen years we 've been a country where law had little to do with Labour relations .
12 In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences .
13 In the last few years we have been promised ( and in the UK have never actually been given ) ready-made video programmes on EVR , requiring one set of equipment , and on videodisc , requiring another .
14 For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago .
15 In the last ten years we have seen a fifty percent rise in serious and fatal accidents , at whose expense colleagues ?
16 Charlton co-manager Alan Curbishley admitted that his side were on a worrying downward trend but pointed out : ‘ In the last three years we have sold players worth more than £4 million and spent only Pounds 450,000 .
17 Indeed , we always try to give the benefit of the doubt , and the hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that in the last three years we have received 577 claims and have settled 372 of them .
18 In the last three years we have been operating a programme of capital grants designed to assist governing bodies and their area associations gain access to facilities suitable for the standard of competition immediately below national level and serving major areas of Scotland .
19 In the last three years we have opened three brand new laboratories : at Colchester , serving rigid packaging and tubes ; at Bristol , with a new complex for flexible packaging scientists ; and at Muscatine , Iowa , which is our largest plastic tubes plant .
20 I will have more to say about family life in the next chapter , here I note merely that in the last twenty years we have seen the large-scale establishment of the single-parent family , the so-called serial-monogamy syndrome ( divorced people keep getting remarried ) and an endless chain of step-children and step/half brothers and sisters .
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