Example sentences of "[subord] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that last Friday , on a delegation to Kiev , I took the opportunity — as I had always promised myself that I would if ever I were in Kiev — to visit Babi Yar , just outside the city limits , where in two years of Nazi terror and occupation tens of thousands of people were murdered ? |
| 2 | Where in previous years these vessels had been purely large fishing vessels loading salted fish into barrels for immediate export to their own ports , now there came great numbers of large factory ships and modern trawlers which could process fish , package it and freeze it for indefinite periods . |
| 3 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |
| 4 | It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) . |
| 5 | Although in recent years , as second incomes have become more important , it is debatable as to whether this finding would still hold true . |
| 6 | In much of Western Europe a predominant characteristic has been trade union pluralism ( and sometimes reluctance to engage in continuous relationships with employers ) promoted by ideological , philosophical and religious differences , although in recent years there has been rather less emphasis upon the importance of religious affinity . |
| 7 | Balance is better achieved by a mixture — often sold as ‘ blood , bone and fish ’ — although in recent years the fish content has been considerably reduced as it is used more and more in animal and pet foodstuffs . |
| 8 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |
| 9 | although in recent years there have been significant improvements in the provision of research and library facilities for M.P.s these still lag fir behind those available to their counterparts abroad . |
| 10 | Although in recent years total government capital spending has been of the order of £20 billion per annum , Brown and Jackson ( 1983 , p. 138 ) point out that this represents a real reduction of approximately one half over the past 20 years . |
| 11 | Families of virtually all income levels get more out of the social services than they pay towards them and towards other public expenditure , although in recent years this advantage has been eroded . |
| 12 | Our knowledge of life histories of most deep-sea ophiuroids is poor ( see Tyler , 1980 for a review ) although in recent years there have been several accounts of the reproductive biology of the more common species ( Schoener 1968 , 1972 : Tyler & Gage 1979 , 1980 , 1982 ; Gage & Tyler , 1981 , 1982 ) together with some work on the post-larval stages ( Schoener 1967 , 1969 ; Gage & Tyler 1981 ) . |
| 13 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 14 | He subsequently went into partnership ; Stratford Mills were operated by Biddle and Bishop during the 1830s , although in later years , other tenants such as corn merchants , Reynolds and Allen , occupied at least part of the mills . |
| 15 | They trained to land in various numbers , although in later years some nine men made up the team in a powered dory . |
| 16 | Crowds today appeared to be larger than in recent years despite poor weather forecasts . |
| 17 | The Tokyo stock market staged a limited recovery in the days following the discovery of the scandal , but trade remained generally at much lower levels than in recent years as the depression which had gripped the market since the start of 1989 continued its course . |
| 18 | But the rate of increase is much smaller than in recent years and some police forces including the Metropolitan Police recorded fewer crimes . |
| 19 | In this context the Vulcan would be perhaps less relevant than in recent years . |
| 20 | The number of motor vehicles in the UK is still increasing , but at a slower rate than in recent years , according to a report by the Society Of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 21 | Students in their final year will receive a lower rate of loan than in earlier years of the course . |
| 22 | Branding and voucher regulations were enforced much more consistently than in earlier years . |
| 23 | In 1955/6 budgets were generally overspent and by a larger margin than in earlier years . |
| 24 | ‘ We still have nearly 200 young people undergoing training on this site and although it continues to be less than in earlier years , because the business scene has changed , our overall commitment to training and development certainly has not . ’ |
| 25 | Table 3 , below , shows that although the limited duration of the present Call-slip analysis exercise meant that fewer issues were monitored in 1981 than in earlier years , the proportion of all issues which were in foreign languages remained remarkably constant , at around 4% . |
| 26 | The small party of British players competing in the Veteran 's World Championships in Perth at the end of April achieved greater successes overall than in previous years . |
| 27 | Competition between the parties was , however , somewhat less than in previous years . |
| 28 | In brief , the Act gives increased powers of delegation to Local Authority Schools and Colleges to manage their own affairs , with far greater autonomy than in previous years . |
| 29 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
| 30 | Less commissioned research was carried out in TMOS than in previous years , mainly because DOE let no new applied geological mapping contracts during the year , while several such contracts came to an end . |