Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 2 | The re-establishment of the Irish language as the first official language of the state became the national policy of the Irish government under de Valera and has only toned down in recent years . |
| 3 | But it has kept its head down in recent years because of a huge $4 billion corporate debt and a slide in sales . |
| 4 | I mean , ranking of the countries descending as business in the way it changes , and Japan comes first , Germany 's gone down in recent years because of that trouble , but America has consistently been the major investor in this country . |
| 5 | Lawrence said the team had to deliver for fans who had been let down in recent years . |
| 6 | The relief will be available instead of the 25% writing-down allowance available for the year in which the expenditure is incurred , with the balance being written down in future years at 25% . |
| 7 | IF charities are concerned because sales of their Christmas cards are down on previous years , they have only themselves to blame . |
| 8 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 9 | The sale , which began in 1955 , has been in decline : last winter fewer than 290 booksellers and 12 publishers took part , significantly down on previous years . |
| 10 | The 1993 winter sale , which ends on 30th January , has so far been a major disappointment : fewer than 290 booksellers have taken part , significantly down on previous years . |
| 11 | As a result , the number of such procedures is well down on previous years because the process is much better . |
| 12 | Initial reports suggest that visitor numbers were down on previous years , but that the quality of enquiry was high , helped by the positive reaction of visitors responding to specific areas of business on display . |
| 13 | Above : The Confederate Air Force SB2C-5 Helldiver was part of a varied , but down on previous years , attendance at the charismatic Geneseo airfield . |
| 14 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 15 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 16 | Many of the initiatives laboured over in previous years have come to fruition and a host of new ventures has sprung up , bringing fresh opportunities and challenges . |
| 17 | The report stated that while the number of new settlements had levelled off in recent years , the Jewish population in the occupied territories was growing by as much as 10 per cent annually . |
| 18 | Bad debts written off in previous years but recovered this year amounted to £1,740 . |
| 19 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 20 | ‘ And I should know , having brought you up for twenty-odd years . |
| 21 | Even if her scheme permits her to make additional pension contributions to make up for missing years of service , such payments will cost her more than would be the case for a man of the same age and salary status , since the arrangements assume that a woman will live longer and therefore claim benefits for longer than a man . |
| 22 | Previously these costs were charged to the provision set up in prior years for the write-down on the withdrawal from property development . |
| 23 | It is small wonder that the practice has grown up in recent years of referring , however inaccurately , to a mistress as a ‘ common law wife ’ . |
| 24 | This is also true of some thirty private universities which have sprung up in recent years . |
| 25 | Many support groups have sprung up in recent years , at national and local level , to support and advise families of those suffering from specific diseases or forms of disablement . |
| 26 | The Alumni Foundation concerts are a new and pleasant tradition which has grown up in recent years . |
| 27 | One of the reasons that Britain habitually trails in this sort of event is the culture of dogged amateurism that has grown up in recent years . |
| 28 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 29 | The various African charters on human rights drawn up in recent years have all failed to capture the importance of the right to communicate and the right of free expression , according to a group of leading communicators who met in Cairo , Egypt , 16–17 October . |
| 30 | The franchise is a form of business which has grown up in recent years and offers the would-be entrepreneur what may at first sight appear to be an easy way to start up in business . |