Example sentences of "[adj] years in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But unless there have been marked changes over the past 30 years in insolation , the quantum efficiency of phytoplankton photosynthesis , or rates of nutrient supply , interannual changes or lack thereof , in chlorophyll ( which we inferred from interannual changes in Secchi depths ) will reflect interannual variations in primary production in the North Pacific or any other ocean basin . |
| 2 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
| 3 | A cruel analysis of the last 30 years in education might say that the succession of Schools Council , then the Schools Curriculum Development Committee and then the NCC neatly summarises the way that education has been perceived over this period . |
| 4 | The history of the past 30 years in brewing has been dominated by the emergence of a handful of giant national companies — Bass , Allied , Whitbread , GrandMet/Watney , Courage , and Scottish & Newcastle — driven by a need to maximise profit rather than concentrating on high quality products that also generate a good return . |
| 5 | With the assistance of Archbishop Romero — who was subsequently assassinated — she found her son , who was tried and sentenced to 30 years in prison . |
| 6 | Citing church sources , the Western media reported early in 1990 that 12 Roman Catholic bishops had been arrested in the previous few months , including Mgr Antoine Zhang Guangyi , 83 , who had already served 30 years in prison . |
| 7 | On March 5 two Palestinian teenagers were each sentenced to 30 years in prison for stabbing a Jewish student to death on a bus in Tel Aviv district on Dec. 2 , 1990 [ see p. 37928 ] . |
| 8 | Colonel Guillermo Benavides and Lieutenant Yusshy Mendoza , both serving 30 years in prison for killing six Jesuit priests in 1989 , will be released under the amnesty . |
| 9 | If found guilty , Mr McNamara , who has been charged with mail fraud , wire fraud , and money laundering , could face up to 30 years in jail , the seizure of all his assets and fines amounting to more than $800m . |
| 10 | Two of them were executed , the third received 30 years in jail . |
| 11 | The trial of Sir Terence and the charges against Sir Joh were indicative of the depth of corruption associated with the National Party 's 30 years in office in Queensland which had ended with the party 's electoral defeat in 1989 . |
| 12 | ‘ After nearly 30 years in show business , I have a great need of privacy for a while . |
| 13 | Oliver Tambo , president of the African National Congress ( ANC ) , returned to South Africa on Dec. 13 after 30 years in exile , marking a further step in the ANC 's return to a full political role in the country . |
| 14 | And you know some years in advance if you 're in a secondary school erm that the total secondary school population is going to drop by , say , erm fifteen per cent in the next five years or whatever it might be . |
| 15 | Even those whose fathers spent some years in industry tended to be brought up in the village . |
| 16 | More than any Prime Minister since Lloyd George , Mrs Thatcher appeared justified in proclaiming after some years in office , ‘ I have changed everything ’ . |
| 17 | In Sweden the Social Democrats were ousted from power in 1976 after forty-five years in office by an alliance of ‘ bourgeois ’ parties , although they returned to office in 1982 . |
| 18 | Reynolds will also serve another 2 years in custody for an unrelated street robbery he 'd carried out 2 days before the crash . |
| 19 | Now we can plan 2 years in front of ourselves . ’ |
| 20 | aware that erm the retention of this site is essential for expansion , since the British Library after forty years in construction has room for , will have room only for twelve hundred readers not many more than Great Russell Street while the French National Library which has taken only five years to build and will be completed next year , will have room for three-and-a-half-thousand readers . |
| 21 | , who is coming up to retirement next year after more than forty years in malt , has known the Wallingford maltings since it was a green field site . |
| 22 | I have spent three and a half years in research , leading to a PhD in molecular biology . |
| 23 | During Mrs Thatcher 's eleven and a half years in power , journalists were mostly fawning courtiers to the Queen of Downing Street . |
| 24 | Mr Keenan was speaking during a news conference in Dublin in which he gave a moving account of his four and a half years in captivity . |
| 25 | Today he admitted serving 2 and a half years in jail for violent assults on women . |
| 26 | The defendant lived with his brother for two and a half years in property owned by the plaintiff local authority of which the brother was a secure tenant under the Housing Act 1985 . |
| 27 | Indeed over his three and a half years in office new problems were added as quickly as others were solved or eased . |
| 28 | Anthony from was found guilty of the manslaughter of a seven year old girl in ninety eighty six , and served four and a half years in prison . |
| 29 | A Banbury man known as Psycho has been sentenced to two and a half years in custody for an unprovoked knife attack on a man out walking his dog . |
| 30 | MADRID — Howard Marks , the Briton accused by US police of being the ‘ Marco Polo ’ who led an international ring of hashish smugglers , yesterday took one step closer towards extradition to the US , where he faces up to 113 years in jail , Tim McGirk writes . |