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 .
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