Example sentences of "in the [adj] [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
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 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Entering Forest School , Walthamstow , Essex , in October 1895 , in the following five years he received prizes for mathematics , chemistry , and form work . |
6 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | In the next fifteen years he effectively trained about forty others , including several step-brothers . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | In the next five years he made about forty ascents as a professional balloonist . |
14 | In the next five years he thinks he does but does n't . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | In the next three years he was twice parachuted into Occupied France . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
19 | 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 … ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | In the past six years he has represented himself before 34 High Court judges , 25 Masters , 14 Registrars , four stipendary magistrates , two Justices of the Peace , and four Scottish sheriffs Yesterday was his 239th court appearance . |
24 | After all , if anyone has flourished in the past 13 years it has been the supermarkets . |
25 | It is perhaps worth pointing out that in the past three years we have spent some £350 million on the poorer pensioners . |
26 | ‘ 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 . |
27 | In the past three years we 've adopted a three percent turnover . |
28 | In the past three years they have spent £1m transforming the former run-down pub on the banks of the River Severn into an attractive 34-bedroom hotel with restaurant and conference facilities . |
29 | ‘ In the past 50 years we 've done a great deal of abolition . |
30 | In the past 20 years we have gained enormously from our membership of the Community . |