Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have talked to lady presidents of prior years who have said that they did not experience any difficulties . |
| 2 | Inverness has also had of late years its annual Christian convention . |
| 3 | They have come from every country on earth … of late years there has been a remarkable influx of Jews into Palestine , but the Turkish government are striving to hinder their settlement by every means in their power . ’ |
| 4 | And of late years it has been used by the inhabitants of Virginia in many disorders , which are occasioned by thick , sizy blood ; so that the root of this plant , when its virtues are fully known , may become one of the most useful medicines yet discovered . |
| 5 | These years will not count as part of your working life , and the number of qualifying years you need for a full pension will be reduced . |
| 6 | So it is almost a matter of philotimo , honour , that even in the relatively affluent Greece of recent years nobody who can possibly fiddle his taxes has failed to do so . |
| 7 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 8 | He says he agrees with Mr Tebbit that many of the evil deeds of recent years which have seen child murders and terrorism of a particularly disgusting type , can not be answered by ‘ mere questions of policing , penal treatment or sentencing policy and can not either be justified or explained by talking of urban deprivation and unemployment . ’ |
| 9 | The person who decided this was almost always the vicar ; though of recent years he could not make elaborate changes without the support of a majority in his church council . |
| 10 | How appropriate , how impressive : ‘ From light years they arrived , to feel the pulse of everyone around . |
| 11 | The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners . |
| 12 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 13 | As in previous years we shall conduct a nationwide advertising campaign in the early autumn to encourage people to complete and return the electoral registration form . |
| 14 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 15 | It will vary because er erm er we we ac remember that we have a formula which will expose to what your er erm , nominated income was in previous years what the membership , you know , these have all changed so it could be i I would n't like to say it 's exactly the same could be a bit of a problem ! |
| 16 | In previous years her job has been filled by a preregistration house officer . |
| 17 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 18 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 19 | As in previous years it was difficult to monitor the fighting in Cambodia during 1990 , as independent confirmation of conflicting claims was extremely rare . |
| 20 | In the spring the regional heats were held and as in previous years our expert judges were pleased by the excellent standards . |
| 21 | In succeeding years they continued to expand while others , attracted by their success , also produced iron in the district . |
| 22 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 23 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 24 | In post-war years there was only a nine-minute service of Marton cars during the summer season , until it closed in 1961 . |
| 25 | The public corporations — and especially the capital-intensive Electricity Boards — had , it is true , underpinned the sustained high level of both private and public investment spending in postwar years which was one option in a Keynesian strategy for the avoidance of slump and the maintenance of full employment . |
| 26 | In postwar years there has been a tendency for MPs to be even more middle-class than they were hitherto . |
| 27 | As in other years there will be an exhibition of young German artists , in this instance born between 1953 and 1968 . |
| 28 | In other years she had displayed appropriate sympathy about sports day . |
| 29 | The neglect of the needs of those disabled after retirement age is excused by reference to the growth in pensioners ' incomes in recent years which , of course , overlooks the acute poverty among older people with disabilities and the fact that the growth in incomes has been concentrated among better-off pensioners . |
| 30 | It has been the site of a number of archaeological explorations in recent years which have yielded valuable information about earlier settlements , with discoveries of bronze spears , remains of chariots , and graves of several warriors . |