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

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1 In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view .
2 In the early post-war years it was difficult even to stay alive , with low rations , a fuel shortage and an economy which worked by barter in the absence of a stable currency .
3 In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours .
4 In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 .
5 This transmission , which can handle up to 221lb ft torque , is definitely the shape of things to come at Mercedes , and in the next two years it is likely that all six-cylinder Mercedes cars will be equipped with it .
6 La Plata , the administrative centre of Buenos Aires province , had undergone economic vicissitudes at the end of the century , but with the upturn in its fortunes in the next few years it acquired a station of striking originality , an overall shed flanked by a staggeringly ornate pentagonal building covered in statuary and surmounted by a dome .
7 A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges .
8 In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress .
9 In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 .
10 After all , if anyone has flourished in the past 13 years it has been the supermarkets .
11 In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment .
12 In the past few years it has become clear that the small intestine is also damaged by NSAIDs .
13 But field staff fear that this might not be appreciated in head-quarters where senior officials might be unfamiliar with their routine strategies : ‘ One can say that because you have n't taken any stats in the last two years it 's because you 're a good lad , and people who you may have to take stats upon know that you 're around a lot , and they know that if they 're naughty it 's a two-edged thing , you can look at it two ways . ’
14 The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’
15 In the last few years it has become clear that many other churches are working in this way in every denomination .
16 In the last few years it has been appreciated by the House of Commons that the method of scrutiny chosen was not best adapted to influence the final shape of Community legislation .
17 In the last ten years it is estimated that the NRO has spent more than $50 billion , none of it accountable .
18 In the last ten years it has become apparent that there is some stability and continuity in intellectual and cognitive functioning from infancy through early and later childhood .
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