Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1976 , the government pegged the grant for future years to the 1975 level in real terms , while expecting a comparable service to be maintained . |
| 2 | The Regulations will apply to accounts for financial years ending on or after 16 November 1992 , and there are transitional provisions to enable companies to take early advantage of the new thresholds . |
| 3 | Cloth exports for 1374–75 can not be measured , as the custom on cloth for that year was farmed for all ports except London , and there are considerable gaps in the accounts for adjacent years . |
| 4 | The ’ next steps ’ initiative is making use of the best and most appropriate management practices from all sectors , such as contracting out , recruitment of chief executives from the private sector , performance pay , publication of reports and accounts , customer surveys , trading funds , and financial flexibility to carry money between financial years . |
| 5 | The rates of payment for previous years were obtained from old amendments to the statements of fees and allowances . |
| 6 | It is hard for parents to keep faith through lean years , and harder still for the boys , particularly if doubts and pressures filter through to them . |
| 7 | ( j ) to plan and seek support for subsequent years of the Project |
| 8 | Clinton would slash $37.5bn from Bush 's defence budget proposals for fiscal years 1993–96 . |
| 9 | The US Natural Resources Defence Council predicts that as a result of high exposure during pre-school years to some carcinogenic pesticides used on fruit , 55% of our lifetime cancer risk is incurred before the age of six — and that 's pre-irradiation , with its own unquantifiable consequences . |
| 10 | If the taxman thinks you 've been cheating , he 'll look at all your affairs with extra care and may check back on tax returns for previous years . |
| 11 | The association between advancing years and increasing rates of disability is illustrated in Figure 7 . |
| 12 | In The New Age of 5 November , for example , she complained of the influence of Les Chants de Maldoror ( the book that was Modigliani 's constant companion ) : ‘ No one would deny the mischief done by Maldoror during recent years ’ . |
| 13 | Such was the experience of the believers through subsequent years ( 2 Thess. 1:5 ; Rev. 1:9 ) . |
| 14 | So we propose to cut that support by half in this year and to keep it under review for future years as well . |
| 15 | Such a comparison must be made with caution , however , as some early counts of large numbers were made from boats some way off shore , for example by E. T. Booth ; similar data for recent years are not available . |
| 16 | Since the long-established , much-criticised index on which Figure 7.1 is based relies on southern wage data for critical years during the crucial third quarter of the eighteenth century , it probably tends to a degree of pessimism , but an insufficient one to affect the trend . |
| 17 | Comparing census data for different years |
| 18 | The terrace parterre is to be restored to match its appearance during its heyday before the First World War , and an extensive programme of tree planting is under way to replace the losses of recent years . |
| 19 | Some will argue that it was the decade when ‘ real ’ music was murdered by Stock , Aitken & Waterman or rap , but on the other hand the ‘ real ’ musician of mature years had never had it so good-Chris De Burgh , Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton never sold so many tickets , or so many records . |
| 20 | Save for the case where a Prime Minister is to resign as the result of advanced years , and therefore where speed is not essential and an ordinary party election could take place , the following course of action is proposed to find a new Prime Minister for a continuing government . |
| 21 | But the downpour has helped ease the water shortages of previous years . |
| 22 | They 've also come up with an amendment to the English battle hymn of recent years : ‘ Swing low , sweet chariot , coming for to carry me home — wards to think again . ’ |
| 23 | I appreciate that this view is somewhat unfashionable and would gain little support from the majority of teachers who were at the centre of the disruptions of recent years . |
| 24 | The Motorola plant , Scotland 's most significant inward investment of recent years , is expected to reach its target employment level of 1,500-2,000 jobs next year , two years ahead of schedule , but senior managers have indicated that the eventual total could be nearer 4,000 if markets continue to perform as robustly as currently projected . |
| 25 | The instrumental guitar album boom of recent years has seen few players survive with their credibility intact . |
| 26 | He stressed that he sought consensus among teachers , parents , local and central government , in place of the confrontation of recent years — a clear reference to the controversy which surrounded Michael Forsyth 's time as education minister from 1987 and last year . |
| 27 | The roots of parental involvement go back to the 1950s when primary schools began to have an identity of their own , an identity far removed from the old all-age elementary schools of pre-war years . |
| 28 | But the big processions of previous years were nowhere to be seen — or heard — in our town . |
| 29 | Lord Salisbury 's active and generous support of the BDA and of the deaf community as a whole has been a significant factor in the development of the Association in recent years . |
| 30 | Moreover , in a study by Smith-Goosne and Bennett ( 1988 ) , it was suggested that there has been a major rise in work-effort in recent years . |