Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And Brucie , 35 next month , will relish the chance to return against the team that has caused Liverpool so much grief in recent years . |
| 4 | There is a financial risk in producing your own cards and there is little chance of selling old stock in future years . |
| 5 | It seems likely that the apparent increase in the residential segregation of the elderly since the inter-war period reflects both the substantial rise in the housing stock in recent years ( from 16.2 million to 20.5 million units between 1961 and 1981 ) and the increased financial resources of elderly people , which together have allowed more of them to continue to live private and independent lives . |
| 6 | Fullback and captain Mark Wyatt , who 29 caps in 10 years is just two fewer than the Canadian record set by lock Ro Hindson between 1973 and 1990 , was not the only one to retire after the World Cup . |
| 7 | The three Masses and the Gradualia have been championed a great deal in recent years , sometimes meshed with one another in the ‘ liturgical reconstruction ’ manner , although there are reasons for believing that Byrd did not have that in mind . |
| 8 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 9 | I have n't seen the like in many years . |
| 10 | Despite being a launchpad for bands like Sweden 's Abba and producing a string of hits the Eurovision Song Contest has been panned by fans in recent years . |
| 11 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 12 | Bob Hilborn , chief food technologist , primary agricultural products , reveals a further advantage of ICMS : ‘ In many ways the increased use of chemical pesticides in recent years was an easy option for growers , but not a cheap one . |
| 13 | Numbers of senior house officers have risen by 14% in three years — far more than was intended — and , by not substantially reducing the number of registrars , JPAC has failed to keep to its terms of reference . |
| 14 | Reported to include a pair of airworthy Skyraiders , along with a collection of 26 restorable aircraft , plus a large aero engine collection , spares holdings , automobiles , tools and equipment , this must be one of the largest ‘ one man ’ collections to come under the hammer in recent years . |
| 15 | Who would have guessed from his cold efficiency that this was only Damien 's second contest in two years . |
| 16 | One aspect of Clinton 's growth plan is a ‘ targeted ’ investment tax credit of 10% of the increased costs of investment in qualifying plant and equipment over the amount of such investment in prior years . |
| 17 | However the increasingly similar basis underlying national soil maps allows correlation to take place more easily and a soil map of the world which is in an advanced state of preparation is envisaged ( Bridges , 1978a ) as the basis of soil geography in future years . |
| 18 | Pru-Bache lost $250m in 1990 , its third loss in four years . |
| 19 | Minolta , the camera maker , reporting its first loss in 27 years , has slashed the salaries of 23 directors by up to 20 per cent . |
| 20 | In the week that Alan Sugar was revealed to be Britain 's top earner under the age of 45 , his company , Amstrad , announced its first loss in 23 years . |
| 21 | Kitty says she got involved in amateur home porn video-making through swinging , the Seventies open-marriage ‘ lifestyle movement ’ that seems to have regained popularity among some suburbanites in recent years . |
| 22 | Studio Pottery will aim to present an informative picture of the current state of studio pottery/ceramics in the UK ( a field which has witnessed a rise in interest and consequently prices at auction in recent years ) . |
| 23 | Bouguereau has not been selling well at auction in recent years , and it is possible that the recent exhibition at Borghi & Co. in New York has stimulated a revival of interest in his work . |
| 24 | This is the most significant collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver to appear at auction in twenty years . |
| 25 | ‘ The strange thing is , we have had only one result in six years from the full game . |
| 26 | That could be the vital ingredient for Sunderland as they attempt to embarrass Norwich and the Roker Park directors at Hillsborough by producing the club 's best result in 19 years . |
| 27 | Here around Alto Foresta in recent years , hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin forest have been burned and continue to be burned to provide pasture for cattle . |
| 28 | Selkirk … . 16 Boroughmuir .. 9 EVEN with three replacements permissible it is not always possible to cover the loss of a key player , as Boroughmuir discovered when suffering their third defeat in four years at the hands of Selkirk , this time by a 16-9 margin . |
| 29 | SUPER St Helens yesterday sent champions Wigan crashing to their heaviest League defeat in 20 years . |
| 30 | ENGLAND suffered the ultimate humiliation under Graham Taylor when they crashed to their most embarrassing defeat in 43 years . |