Example sentences of "[adv] in [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Europeans were consuming more in these years , they were dying of different diseases at later periods of life , their physique ( taking rough measures such as those of height ) was improving . |
| 2 | On the contrary , he concerned himself with them more in these years than before 1962 . |
| 3 | How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still , intranced with admiration ( while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula ) , to hear thee unfold , in thy deep and sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts ) , or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar — while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy ! |
| 4 | Firstly , the Festival of Britain in 1951 and the Coronation in 1953 had focused the eyes of the world on Britain 's streets , and the number of tourists over here in those years gradually gave rise to concern over the embarrassment caused by prostitution . |
| 5 | However in these years the total area of land devoted to such cash Crops by smallholders was minuscule in relation to the total area in production , and had little impact on the bush/fallow system as it had been traditionally practised . |
| 6 | As Patrick Buchanan , a pugnacious supporter of both North and the contras , described it in his autobiography , the world divided neatly in those years into ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ . |
| 7 | Much more choleric than his brother — who was never in those years very far from outright rudeness — Wilson offended people , and important people , right and left . |
| 8 | Unnoticed too in those years , and out of Marx and surrealism , another movement for the 1960s began to take shape . |
| 9 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |