Example sentences of "in the [adj] [num] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue was never raised again in the remaining five years I stayed at the Department of Health . |
| 2 | Never in the entire two years she 'd known him had he inspired in her such a hopeless rage of jealousy as she 'd experienced when Guido had looked at that girl . |
| 3 | In the two hundred years which followed English literature saw the flowering of the Renaissance . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Entering Forest School , Walthamstow , Essex , in October 1895 , in the following five years he received prizes for mathematics , chemistry , and form work . |
| 7 | In the following two years there were violent confrontations at prospective nuclear sites throughout Europe . |
| 8 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
| 9 | In the following twenty years he was responsible for the design and building of many new types of main-line and suburban passenger and freight locomotives of large dimensions , which gave excellent service and whose elegance and symmetry of outline were greatly admired . |
| 10 | In the next fifteen years he effectively trained about forty others , including several step-brothers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It plans new satellite launches in the next two years which will provide full global coverage . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By January 1315 he was a knight of the royal household and in the next two years he received various grants of lands , wardships , and money . |
| 15 | Final warnings were slapped on 15 of the garages and if they put a foot wrong in the next five years they will also be barred from further MOT testing . |
| 16 | In the next five years he made about forty ascents as a professional balloonist . |
| 17 | In the next five years he thinks he does but does n't . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the next three years he was twice parachuted into Occupied France . |
| 20 | They chose their own governor every year , though as they re-elected Governor Bradford thirty times in the next thirty-five years their policy suffered no lack of continuity . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ This is n't the first time in the past two years he 's stalked out of our house in a jealous rage , swearing that this time our relationship is over for good . ’ |
| 23 | Gail Rebuck commented : ‘ In the past two years I have witnessed Frances ’ excellent editorial judgement coupled with marketing flair and her consensus seeking management style that has helped secure so many important books … ’ |
| 24 | In the past two years I have stayed with my friends in another part of the country and we travelled together to an island , a famous hill and many other interesting places . |
| 25 | In the past two years my own views of mathematics , how people learn it , and how it should be taught , have changed . |
| 26 | In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the past 10 years there have been many suggestions of an increased incidence of cancer , or of clusters of cases , in the vicinity of nuclear installations . |
| 29 | I repeat that in the past 10 years there has been a devolution of power down into the regions right across Europe , not only inside the EC . |
| 30 | In the past five years my Honda Accord would n't start in Scotland ( the earth wire from the battery fell off ) and my Honda Quintet quietly conked out on the M40 ( cause never found ) . |