Example sentences of "in the [adj] years [that] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 2 | The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 , however morally repugnant , did at least provide the USSR with a breathing-space in which military preparations could be accelerated ; the pact , however , was broken off in June 1941 when German forces invaded the USSR 's western borderlands , and in the four years that followed the USSR lost over 26 million citizens and suffered material damage on an unimaginable scale . |
| 3 | He said this , in the thirty years that have passed since the previous Police Act became law , the old tripartite structure which consisted police authorities , chief constables and the Home Secretary , has provided an effective police service which can still truthfully be described as not only the best in the world , but also the envy of the world . |
| 4 | In the thirty-two years that have passed since Suez , there have only been four such occasions when the wheel has been put over : |
| 5 | She had been strange at the funeral , and even stranger in the two years that had passed . |
| 6 | In the seventy-seven years that divide the publication of Pamela from the death of Jane Austen , houses have a homogeneous being for the novelist . |
| 7 | In the few years that followed , Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing . |
| 8 | In the few years that followed , it is unlikely that you would get back as much as you paid in . |
| 9 | True to his predictions , the population of Europe and North America did indeed grow dramatically in the 150 years that followed . |
| 10 | The explanation of these apparent omissions seems to lie in the forty years that separate the story , which extends to include the first Reform Bill in 1832 , from the date of its publication shortly after the passing of the second Reform Bill in 1861 . |
| 11 | His words were prophetic , for as I write about it now I realize that it has never been repeated in the thirty-five years that have passed since then . |
| 12 | He has found out one thing in the ten years that separate them , if nothing else ; that now is always better than then . |
| 13 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 14 | In the twenty-nine years that have passed since Lloyd George 's death , he has continued to stir up furious argument amongst historians and biographers . |
| 15 | In the three years that followed , he at last found personal happiness and intellectual fulfilment , and was swiftly transformed into the brilliantly eloquent young man the greater world was soon to know . |
| 16 | In the three years that followed , the Danzig Nazis became better at governing themselves and at developing strategies to exploit the increasing economic difficulties of the Free City . |
| 17 | Having thus briefly examined the background against which the enormous post-war growth in higher education has taken place , we will now examine in detail those developments which have occurred in the three years that have elapsed since the first edition of this book appeared in 1979 . |