Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] year [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | In the immediate post-war years there was an attempt to absolve the bureaucracy of responsibility for externally aggressive and internally repressive policies , by pointing out the ways in which bureaucrats had tried to hold back military excesses . |
2 | But in the early postwar years its import surplus was so large that despite expanded gold exports it was a net drawer on the sterling pool , until it left the pool at the end of 1947 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |
6 | The issue was never raised again in the remaining five years I stayed at the Department of Health . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | In the two hundred years which followed English literature saw the flowering of the Renaissance . |
9 | ‘ 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The twins were demanding — in the first few years she thought she would go mad from lack of sleep and overwork — but at least they touched her and hugged her and kissed her and loved her . |
12 | Entering Forest School , Walthamstow , Essex , in October 1895 , in the following five years he received prizes for mathematics , chemistry , and form work . |
13 | In the following two years there were violent confrontations at prospective nuclear sites throughout Europe . |
14 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The corollary of this is that any receipts received or payments made in the current financial year which relate to accruals made in the last financial year , will not affect the current year 's profit figures . |
17 | It plans to open a further nine in the current half year which will have the effect of increasing the supermarket sales area by 9.1pc . |
18 | In the next fifteen years he effectively trained about forty others , including several step-brothers . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | It plans new satellite launches in the next two years which will provide full global coverage . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | In the next five years he made about forty ascents as a professional balloonist . |
25 | In the next five years he thinks he does but does n't . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | In the next three years he was twice parachuted into Occupied France . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Despite this somewhat unstable basis the Company did quite well until 1630 when trade was dislocated by a famine in Gujerat , and in the next few years its legal position was undermined because Charles I allowed the Courteen family — whose interests in the West Indies had suffered because he had given away their rights in certain islands inadvertently — to trade with India without any regard for the Company 's charter . |
30 | In the next few years there will be fewer young people and these tend to make up the majority of staff in many outlets , so caterers — and particularly the large chains — will come to rely more on automation in the near future . ’ |