Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | When the Michies moved in five years ago , they had to carry out extensive renovations . |
2 | ‘ We moved in nine years ago after my parents , so everything was already well established , ’ says Mrs Weedon . |
3 | As a matter of fact you are the first visitor to come to the cottage since I moved in two years ago . ’ |
4 | Bryony moved in two years ago , then I came with the kids , and a year later to the day , Clare moved in . |
5 | This letter has a different format from that used in previous years — again , the result of widespread consultation with centres . |
6 | Thus the generation 1690–1720 saw a considerable transference of real power from the King to Parliament , partly as a result of specific acts of legislation and partly because of the enormous changes in the country 's fiscal system and relationship to Europe which occurred in these years . |
7 | The costs incurred during the first year of oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation treatment were significantly greater than with endoscopic sclerotherapy ( £4369 v £1067 , p<0.0001 ) and the high rate of rebleeding in the surgical group meant that no cost savings occurred in subsequent years . |
8 | Reflecting on the new and indeed unlikely scenario Collie Curran said : ‘ PJ McGowan came in three years ago and showed us the way ahead . |
9 | Glover recalled in later years that ‘ ninety per cent of the population was bitterly disappointed , and this became a tremendous grievance shared by both Protestants and Roman Catholics ’ . |
10 | I noticed in recent years these practices becoming more lax , which was supported in some ways by both students and staff , who felt an increased sense of freedom . |
11 | Look back at what happened in previous years . |
12 | The ideal hayfield might be grazed and mowed in alternate years , well drained , not sour ( of neutral pH ) , carrying a well-balanced mixture of grasses , clovers , and deep-rooting herbs . |
13 | Although generally not territorial , cuckoos return regularly to the area in which they bred in previous years . |
14 | What Karl Rahner achieved in those years can hardly be summarized ( but see his Foundations of Christian Faith , 1978 , ch . |
15 | He expected in normal years a clear trading profit of £400 . |
16 | The rich merchants contributed to the magnificent civic building which arose in those years ; the town and guild halls , exchanges , municipal belfries , warehouses and city houses . |
17 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
18 | This , of course , was exactly what the heroines of women 's magazine stories felt in those years when they decided to chuck New York and go home to marry Henry . |
19 | Both companies , however , carelessly add together the money costs of fixed assets they acquired in different years . |
20 | In Edinburgh , as in Cardiff , is it not a case of pandering to the nationalistic element in the crowd who , albeit a vociferous minority , chose in former years to whistle and boo when the National Anthem of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was the only anthem to be played ? |
21 | The pattern of their relationship was to be repeated in many of the ‘ chance-started friendships ’ which Coleridge formed in later years . |
22 | Empowering local communities , that 's what really frightens the Tories , because what it means is they 'll never be able to come back with those repressive and regressive policies that they brought in two years ago . |
23 | What Lyle , Faldo twice and Woosnam did in successive years has broken what ever invincibility the home players thought they had . |
24 | ‘ I played nearly as many games in a week for Leicester as I did in six years for Leeds , ’ he says . |
25 | Their apprehensions were summed up by the New York Age : ‘ As a black champion , he has given the Negro more trouble by his scandals than he did in twenty years as a black tramp ’ ( quoted by Gillmore , 1975 , p.99 ) . |
26 | ‘ I feel very angry with the whole government , ’ says Eleanor Greenwood , who put in nine years as a councillor , serving long hours on Hampshire 's education committee . |
27 | Lucky Rob had all criminal charges dropped , but only on the condition that he put in two years ' community service , visiting schools to lecture on the dangers of drugs , talking to juvenile delinquents and visiting prisons in his home town of Drayton , Ohio . |
28 | She put in some years of hard work as hon secretary of the BA ‘ s South Western Branch , and acted as its training officer , finally becoming chairman from 1979 until her retirement . |
29 | Such identity and unity as she possessed in these years was essentially the identity and unity of a system of power , though one beginning to decay . |
30 | One other conspicuous feature of the modern scene also appeared in these years . |