Example sentences of "[conj] in [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless today 's firms learn to manage for profit , not just for the revenue generated by the next deal , it is a fair bet that in fewer years than that many of them will have gone the same way . |
| 2 | If the food-crisis peaks of 1795 , 1800 – 1 and 1812 – 13 are disregarded — for it can be firmly concluded that in those years , as in 1739 – 40 and 1766 – 7 , the living standards of wage-earners must have been substantially , though temporarily , reduced — then the general real-wage trend of the war years suggests no marked movement either way . |
| 3 | It seems unlikely that these three diseases attack with equal intensity in all seasons and in all years . |
| 4 | Since 1976 , the flow of new investment has been very modest , and in some years negative . |
| 5 | His predecessors had farmed these revenues for less than £50 a year , and in some years failed to make any payment at all . |
| 6 | No more than nine have been recorded in one winter , however , and in some years none is seen . |
| 7 | These are the largest movements so far noted and in some years fewer than 100 birds have been involved . |
| 8 | There may be little rain for ten months of the year — and in some years there may be no rain at all . |
| 9 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 10 | He had received his political education in the household of Nur ed-Din , ruler of Syria from 1154 to 1174 and in those years the crusaders ' greatest enemy . |
| 11 | Peak numbers were usually present in September or particularly October , but in some years the autumn peak was as late as November . |
| 12 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |
| 13 | While in former years parents were encouraged to stay together for the sake of their children , more recently emphasis has been put on the damage done to children by parents who do stay married but are in constant conflict . |