Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj -er] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others who have undertaken the care of the church and halls in later years have been Mrs Bell , Mrs Carson , Mr and Mrs Redpath , Mr James Twyble , Mr John Lavery , Mrs David Binks , Mrs K McClatchey and Mr William McFadden . |
| 2 | This included £3.6m written off to reserves in earlier years . |
| 3 | To keep pace with these fast-moving subjects , undergraduates become involved in industrially-relevant projects and research in later years of the course . |
| 4 | As he said in a radio broadcast in 1946 , the Criterion in later years " tended to reflect a particular point of view rather than to illustrate a variety of views on that plane . " |
| 5 | As it sought to serve a predominantly rural region in which the WEA in earlier years had found its own main strength in urban areas , the rural areas were relatively untouched and open to university initiatives when the 1932 Adult Education Regulations were introduced . |
| 6 | There were three chauffeurs on the staff and quite a few vehicles , including some Mercedes in later years . |
| 7 | Her visit to the Association 's headquarters in Carlisle in November 1983 was the first of many engagements she has undertaken on behalf of the BDA in later years . |
| 8 | The reason for the fall in later years is that costs tend to increase as the product ages — apart from production costs there may be increased costs in selling against more up-to-date competition and sales tend to decrease . |
| 9 | The reason for the fall in later years is that costs tend to increase as the product ages — apart from production costs there may be increased costs in selling against more up-to-date competition — ; and sales tend to decrease . |
| 10 | However , if we looked at the total costs of using the vehicles one could argue that by using reducing balance the repair costs in later life would be compensated by the additional depreciation in earlier years so achieving a matching of costs and revenues over the assets ' life . |
| 11 | The issue of coverage did not dissipate during the year and with the exception of the Head of Maths , everyone was worried that they were not able to complete even this much-reduced syllabus , and that the knock-on effect could lead to serious repercussions in later years . |
| 12 | It occurs to me , being in this place at this time with no sign of an approaching end to the Kaffir war and all things uncertain , that it may be of interest to record the passages of everyday life if only as a source of remembrance and reflection in later years . |
| 13 | The military illustrated , as in South-East Asia , the effect upon future developments after 1945 ; the Japanese stimulated the growth of the military in South Korea in later years . |
| 14 | He was actually turned down five times by NME and this had a lasting effect : frustration and perhaps a desire to avenge himself in its columns in later years . |
| 15 | Whatever evolutions took place in later years , a good deal of impetus in those early days came from the middle and upper-middle classes . |
| 16 | Otago did manage to beat Auckland and Carisbrook in 1985 , but suffered some solid defeats in later years . |
| 17 | Obesity in later years leads to insulin resistance , and the functional β cell mass , programmed in leaner times , may then be unable to meet the rising demand for insulin . |
| 18 | Occasionally , when he came back to Cambridge in later years , and especially when he came back to help the university elect another professor of divinity , he would be nostalgic , and say , ‘ I should like to have another go at being regius professor , . |
| 19 | Moreover , far from ‘ planning out ’ non-conforming industry ( which was a worthy planning aim in earlier years ) such industry ‘ substantially eases the problems of starting and maintaining small scale businesses if permission can be given for such uses to be established in redundant buildings such as disused agricultural buildings , industrial , warehouse , or commercial premises , on derelict sites , or in unsuitable housing ’ . |
| 20 | It would be wrong to suggest that the long-term male unemployed of 1989 were the same people as those made redundant from factories in earlier years , but in geography the correlation is very close . |
| 21 | By that decade different religious and social elements had become prominent in antislavery from those who had taken the initiative in earlier years . |
| 22 | Buying two wooden spoons can be more fun at this time than purchasing an expensive set of china in later years . |
| 23 | That confusion between terminology and rigour , truth and exactitude , was to prove a weakness to the New Criticism in later years , since it laid on the critic a continuous duty to adopt or devise terms rigorous enough to satisfy himself and others . |
| 24 | Some countries may therefore be allowed into the single currency without satisfying the criteria which could lead to serious financial problems in later years . |
| 25 | About 1 in 10 young children suffer some form of head injury , with learning problems in later years . |
| 26 | Efforts in earlier years to raise money from the City had proved fruitless . |
| 27 | However , Jerrome 's findings do not refer at all to ‘ tending ’ activities ; the importance of friends in old age seems to be more about a natural extension of satisfying experiences and modes of behaviour in earlier years than about a changed conception of the nature of the relationship which could accommodate more ‘ caring ’ activity . |
| 28 | Despite Citrine 's attempt to settle this issue by firmly rejecting the proposal , this organisational option still had many advocates within the industry whose views were to surface in later years . |
| 29 | Japan regained her independence long before the period of rebuilding was over , but the terms of that independence dictated Japan 's international alignment in later years . |
| 30 | In recounting my coming out story in later years I have always sited this period of my life as extremely important to my subsequent emergence as a lesbian . |