Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] in [adj] year " in BNC.

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1 which only in future years that er , it 's added up to er significant point
2 His favourite topics were sex and sex and he had n't repeated himself once in three years .
3 The most telling passage , indeed , were those recapitulating the Ripper trial — which uniquely in recent years illustrated the harshness of that interface , for all our liberal decencies .
4 And we 're always revising that picture of the past , in other words , somebody else in twenty-five years ' time will have to do a different kind of social history .
5 On the contrary , he concerned himself with them more in these years than before 1962 .
6 At the end of each six week period we have an assessment session whereby they have to do a ‘ performance ’ to everybody else in that year , so the music can see what the dance has done … etc .
7 ‘ Ask me again in forty years .
8 Close your eyes and imagine yourself somewhere in five years ' time .
9 He declared that he could see no alternative to perestroika , but he won loud and prolonged applause when he observed that " all manner of rash radicalism , improvisations and dithering have not given us much in five years " .
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