Example sentences of "[pron] in [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Imperial Cancer Research Fund , which in 10 years has opened 464 shops , has its own ‘ fashion guru ’ . |
| 2 | A mountain bike is the perfect touring vehicle for Nepal 's roads , which in recent years have deteriorated badly . |
| 3 | Filippo Pandolfi , vice-president of the European Commission in charge of research , has further remarked that the adopted procedures may help to avoid errors and falsification of research , which in recent years has been a controversial issue in the US . |
| 4 | It is very much a family event which in recent years has attracted more than 1,000 participants and at least as many spectators . |
| 5 | Cardus , however , feels the factory have made great strides forward with the chassis of the 1991 NSR which in recent years has failed to match the sweet handling of the Yamaha YZR . |
| 6 | Afternoon visit to Lake Bogoria which in recent years has been the home of the lesser flamingo . |
| 7 | What one should however point to is that the critique of western culture which in recent years has been mounted by feminists has not been understood or appropriated — and that in this there lies a certain blindness . |
| 8 | We make camp for the night in earshot of Crystal Rapid , which in recent years has flipped more boats , taken more lives , and humbled more boatmen than any other on the river . |
| 9 | The Federal Cartel Office had on April 20 , 1989 , objected to the proposed takeover on the grounds that it would lead to market domination in the arms , aerospace and truck industries by Daimler-Benz , which in recent years had taken over another aerospace company , Dornier , the electrical concern AEG and the engineering company MTU . |
| 10 | The Democratic candidate made a clean sweep of the states in New England ( the first time since 1964 ) and made inroads into the southern states which in recent years had been solidly Republican . |
| 11 | There is no good reason why Britain should not have emulated the achievements of the Scandinavian countries who , profoundly influenced by their social democratic tradition , have set standards which in recent years our country has fallen well below . |
| 12 | This has forced us to look afresh at the regular London days and , with the prompting of a number of the most regular attenders , we have decided to drop the June day , which in recent years has had a low attendance . |
| 13 | It made the gathering at the Roundhouse that July , ‘ The Dialectics of Liberation ’ , a symposium which in other years , might have attracted a handful of people , an often packed and vital event . |
| 14 | It 's an opportunity we 're gon na have now which in two years time |
| 15 | All members were to join the local Communist Party , which in ensuing years became a rather more effective instrument of political influence , particularly on the West Ham Trades Council ( p 106 ) and amongst the unemployed ( p 142 ) . |
| 16 | Geoffrey Fisher wrote a last school report which in later years became legendary : ‘ A boy with plenty of force of character who , in spite of certain uncouthnesses , has done good service on his own lines ’ . |
| 17 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 18 | And the fact that he seemed to accept the failure of his play , which in previous years would have depressed and unnerved him , is further evidence that he was now a more sanguine man . |
| 19 | A survey by the National Association of Head Teachers conducted in 1987 found that half of the schools questioned were using voluntary funds to supplement their spending on materials and equipment which in previous years had been provided entirely out of local authority funds . |
| 20 | The report , which in previous years was called British Lifestyles , shows the trends set over the last ten years and predicts changes in the next decade . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But will the scheme also cover business interruption loss , which in last year 's explosion amounted to £100m ? |
| 23 | Then , too , there are the marginals who somehow seep into the paddock , and one of my unhappiest memories of Emerson 's decline has to do with the opening of the season which in those years invariably began with the Argentine and the Brazilian grands prix . |
| 24 | The connection led to an invitation to drive in FI for Ferrari , an arrangement which in those years seems to have been a rather casual affair . |
| 25 | Tranmere Rovers .... 3 Leyton Orient ...... 0 TRANMERE ROVERS , who in recent years have survived a threat of extinction as well as only just preserving League membership , reinforced their position as Third Division leaders by overcoming Leyton Orient , thereby stretching the margin to four points . |
| 26 | Sir Christopher Lewinton , who in recent years has transformed TI Group into one of Britain 's most successful specialist engineering companies , pointed out recently that only a fifth of UK university graduates go into manufacturing industry , compared with a third who choose financial services . |
| 27 | The waif-like screen star , who in recent years has devoted her energies to helping the world 's starving children , has just pleaded for a week of peace in Bosnia to enable food to get through to the children there . |
| 28 | But even Mr Papandreou , who in recent years has survived a brutal scandal , major heart surgery and a demanding new marriage , is now looking pretty frail . |
| 29 | Corinne Mercardier , photographer , draughtswoman and sculptress , who in recent years has concentrated on landscape , continues her explorations in scenes from her everyday life . |
| 30 | I think we tend to forget that we are willing to trust the Lord Chancellor and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster , who in recent years has most usually doubled as the Chairman of the Conservative Party a very dubious appointment no doubt in the minds of many er of er your Lordships House . |