Example sentences of "for the [adj] [adj] year in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning to the universities for the new academic year in September 1988 , this objective appeared to remain unachieved . |
| 2 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 3 | The war of words with Damascus follows escalating violence in Kurdish-dominated south-east Turkey , where the PKK has been fighting security forces for the past eight years in a struggle for an independent Kurdish state . |
| 4 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |
| 5 | Methadone has been prescribed in Edinburgh for the past few years in an effort to control the spread of AIDS by offering people an alternative to injecting drugs . |
| 6 | It was during the short period of Crellin 's Chairmanship that the BDDA made a vital decision by appointing Allan Hayhurst full-time paid secretary/treasurer Hayhurst had performed this dual role for the previous five years in an honourary part-time capacity , combining it with his full-time job as missioner of the Carlisle Diocese . |