Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fullback and captain Mark Wyatt , who 29 caps in 10 years is just two fewer than the Canadian record set by lock Ro Hindson between 1973 and 1990 , was not the only one to retire after the World Cup . |
| 2 | Despite being a launchpad for bands like Sweden 's Abba and producing a string of hits the Eurovision Song Contest has been panned by fans in recent years . |
| 3 | Bob Hilborn , chief food technologist , primary agricultural products , reveals a further advantage of ICMS : ‘ In many ways the increased use of chemical pesticides in recent years was an easy option for growers , but not a cheap one . |
| 4 | Kitty says she got involved in amateur home porn video-making through swinging , the Seventies open-marriage ‘ lifestyle movement ’ that seems to have regained popularity among some suburbanites in recent years . |
| 5 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 2.75 was a good price , he is their second most expensive signing ( to Shearer ) , not bad for a midfielder with only 4 goals in 8 years . |
| 8 | Well , he 'd only scored 2 goals in 2 years before the Ford fiesta at Cambridge last weekend . |
| 9 | According to Mark Doran , Unix International 's technical project manager , Application Linking wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is intended only as a stop-gap definition until the Object Group delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years ' time . |
| 10 | According to Mark Doran , UI 's technical project manager , ALT wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is only intended as a stopgap definition until the OMG delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years time . |
| 11 | Because of the limited recruitment and early retirements in recent years , most of their teachers will come from what is loosely known as the ‘ Sixties generation ’ . |
| 12 | Although in the case of the UK there have been substantial additions to the official reserves in recent years ( a consequence of foreign exchange market intervention , even though the UK has , technically , a floating or market-determined exchange rate ) this growth in the reserves has not matched the increase in capital flows . |
| 13 | This included £3.6m written off to reserves in earlier years . |
| 14 | ‘ I have never had trouble with any of my lads in 20 years . |
| 15 | The Moslem Brotherhood movement in Cairo on May 8 strongly condemned the killings along with " similar outbreaks in recent years " . |
| 16 | The main worry is that modular schemes might undo the progress towards an integrated approach to first degree studies which has been a feature of some professional subjects in recent years , notably in post-Finniston engineering courses . |
| 17 | THERE have been a number of books in recent years relating the sciences to philosophical , ethical and spiritual attitudes , and expressing an essentially holistic approach to all knowledge . |
| 18 | The " F " Plan Diet , originated in the UK by Audrey Eyton , is one of the most successful diet books in recent years . |
| 19 | This new effort ( largely pre-cataloguing ) , which aims to produce about two million entries in two years , will be carried out by Soprintendenze staff and members of universities and specialist institutions which have entered into agreements with the Ministry and which will directly recruit their own staff . |
| 20 | Lin McLean , a Strathclyde University student counsellor and AUT activist , said she had not had anyone come to her with problems over a tutor-student relationships in eight years , and that the guidelines were only a guide to help union members in a delicate area of their work . |
| 21 | ‘ Having had some excellent performances in previous years , 1991 has certainly been a setback . |
| 22 | Shakespeare wrote 100,000,000 words in twenty years . |
| 23 | There 've been five home secretaries in four years and civil servants are unclear which direction ministers will take next . |
| 24 | The auction houses were very successful in getting a lot of pictures in recent years , but there were a series of auctions with a very high buy-in rate , and pictures were getting publicly burned . |
| 25 | ‘ We have every sympathy with those who have made substantial underwriting losses in recent years but Lloyd 's owes its first duty to policyholders with valid claims which must be met , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Although the country had extensive overseas investments , the government-owned Air Nauru and the Nauru Pacific shipping line were thought to have made losses in recent years of hundreds of millions of dollars . |
| 27 | But Mr Sherwood said the company was heading back to profit after hundreds of job losses in recent years . |
| 28 | Timex managers had told him of heavy losses in recent years and the possibility of more losses this year . |
| 29 | Timex management had told him of substantial losses in recent years and of the possibility of another massive deficit this year . |
| 30 | Unions though are worried , that after 500 job losses in two years , uncertainty about the aircraft may lead to more redundancies . |