Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here around Alto Foresta in recent years , hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin forest have been burned and continue to be burned to provide pasture for cattle . |
| 2 | Bingham hit out after Charlton had written-off Northern Ireland 's chances of qualifying for the finals in the United States in two years . |
| 3 | The rate of increase of sheep numbers in Powys in recent years is accelerating slowly but the rate of increase in cattle numbers in Cantal is decelerating . |
| 4 | Rugby at Murrayfield has become Scotland 's best chance to express its nationhood — more so than Hampden in recent years . |
| 5 | The first Iranian ambassador to be assigned to Kuwait in five years ( Kuwait having supported Iraq in the Gulf war ) , Hussein Sadeqi , took up his post on Sept. 29 , 1989 . |
| 6 | The chroniclers were kind to Edward in these years , aiming much of their criticism at his mistress , at those around him at court , and in 1376–7 at John of Gaunt ; but his loss of touch does much to explain the growing political factionalism in England in these years . |
| 7 | The current strategy for a slimmer Nobel , through divestment and consolidation , follows a hectic expansion and investment programme by Nobel in recent years . |
| 8 | Additionally , other university extension courses extending over forty-eight hours and comprising twenty-four meetings were almost identical to WEA One-Year courses , matters which were to become of concern to the WEA in subsequent years . |
| 9 | As it sought to serve a predominantly rural region in which the WEA in earlier years had found its own main strength in urban areas , the rural areas were relatively untouched and open to university initiatives when the 1932 Adult Education Regulations were introduced . |
| 10 | There were three chauffeurs on the staff and quite a few vehicles , including some Mercedes in later years . |
| 11 | Alan Vessey found himself stuck by the touchline near the corner and , with his back to the Bere Forest goal and with limited options , he succeeded in paddle flicking the ball into the top corner of the net for one of the finest goals scored at Crystal Palace in recent years . |
| 12 | As Ivan Nagy , the Russian-trained Hungarian dancer who runs English National Ballet , points out , to produce four great artists like Nureyev , Makarova , Baryshnikov and Mukhamedov in 30 years is not a great striking rate for so huge a nation . |
| 13 | This more positive role adopted by the CNAA in recent years as a direct consequence of the financial cuts inflicted on polytechnics by the government and by the local authorities , cuts which if they go too deep are bound adversely to affect the quality of the work and thereby the quality of the courses validated by the CNAA . |
| 14 | Winter sea-watching at Selsey Bill has shown westerly movement to predominate during January and February in some years , suggesting some passage continues from October to February . |
| 15 | Not , this time , the 1975/6 droughts but now the coldest February in 40 years . |
| 16 | Wilkinson Sword hopes Protector will enable it to wrest back the technological advantage in the razor market which it is widely thought to have lost to brand leader Gillette in recent years . |
| 17 | On her first official visit to Derbyshire in fourteen years , Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother , President of the National Trust , received a royal welcome at Calke Abbey in May . |
| 18 | The spread of the Cetti 's warbler across the south of England in recent years is well documented . |
| 19 | Bishop and his Welsh colleagues are seeking their first win over England in 18 years . |
| 20 | The chroniclers were kind to Edward in these years , aiming much of their criticism at his mistress , at those around him at court , and in 1376–7 at John of Gaunt ; but his loss of touch does much to explain the growing political factionalism in England in these years . |
| 21 | But anyone who was at Beaconsfield , this year , or at St Albans in recent years , will argue differently . |
| 22 | IBM in several years in the 1980S prepared for big sales increases , which — despite price cuts — did not occur . |
| 23 | In essentials it embodied the proposals put forward by the Peoples Front Propaganda Committee and by G.D.H. Cole in previous years . |
| 24 | The military illustrated , as in South-East Asia , the effect upon future developments after 1945 ; the Japanese stimulated the growth of the military in South Korea in later years . |
| 25 | The red kite , one of the UK 's rarest breeding birds , is breeding successfully after its experimental reintroduction into southern England and northern Scotland in recent years . |
| 26 | When Lynch beat Jackie Brown ( of Collyhurst ) at Belle Vue , Manchester , overwhelmingly in two rounds in September 1935 , it was only his third contest outside Scotland in five years of professional boxing . |
| 27 | Although the right to conscientious objection has been increasingly recognised in Russia in recent years , no concrete legislative steps have been taken to address the situation of conscientious objectors . |
| 28 | The same is true of political projects responding to the specific problems of the public sector and state enterprises , such as those that have emerged in Britain and Spain in recent years . |
| 29 | All one can say with any certainty is that the Pounds ( and probably the Yeatses also ) paid at least two visits to Sicily in these years , and that on at least one occasion — probably on more than one — they stayed there for some weeks , if not months . |
| 30 | Newly crowned league champions Dublin are 3/1 to win their first senior All Ireland in 10 years , with Cork 9/2 , Kerry 9/2 , Donegal 7/1 , Meath 9/1 , Derry 10/1 , Down 10/1 , Kildare 10/1 and Mayo 12/1 . |