Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teenager , especially in those uncomfortable years of compulsion before sixteen , both demands and rejects individual interest and attention . |
| 2 | It can not have changed much in two hundred years and still , today , the tireless plume of woodsmoke wafts up from the chimney , proving that life goes on in much the same way as it always have done in this particular vicinity . |
| 3 | He did not worry too much in those early years of his married life , telling himself that some women were slow to conceive , but after twelve years and his wife still childless , he had to accept the painful fact that she never would have any . |
| 4 | ‘ Not a word , not in all those years . ’ |
| 5 | From about 1000 A.D. the true Romanesque style of architecture shows itself and , since it emerged in many different countries of Europe which were not in all these years under the influence and direction of one empire , as previously , it developed in different ways . |
| 6 | It was thus in these early years and it was nearly always to remain so . |
| 7 | He says : ‘ The will to succeed came through in those two years . |
| 8 | It 's expected work will start next year , with the first trains going through in another 2 years . |
| 9 | Once in 40 million years , once in one million years — what are the chances of a major accident at the planned Sizewell pressurised-water reactor in Suffolk ( This Week , 11 November , p 343 ) ? |
| 10 | But he 'd never had his leg over , not once in all those years . |
| 11 | Not once in all those years had they seen a real smile on his face . |
| 12 | Once in 40 million years , once in one million years — what are the chances of a major accident at the planned Sizewell pressurised-water reactor in Suffolk ( This Week , 11 November , p 343 ) ? |
| 13 | How do they fare at the hands of those who provide the services both in these later years and in the years after going out of care ? |
| 14 | Upon the facts the decision seems to have been correct so far as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher goes , for all that the defendant had done was to plough up some forest land on which there had previously been no thistles but from which , for some unexplained reason , an immense crop of them sprang up in two successive years . |
| 15 | The Horseshoe Crab ( Limulus ) is one of the most celebrated of ‘ living fossils ’ , and it is a genuine survivor having changed little in 150 million years ( see p. 91 ) . |
| 16 | Furthermore , tensions ensuing from the USSR 's need to support its claim to be the vanguard of world revolutionary movements and its interests as a nation state ( and subsequently as a world superpower ) were felt particularly acutely in these early years . |
| 17 | It would be a shame , but if the balance is not redressed , I would be surprised if Bunty were around in another 10 years . |
| 18 | When he speaks he is listened to with well-earned respect , particularly in these preparatory years before the 1992 UN conference on the environment which will mark the culmination of his career . |
| 19 | Even in these latter years , ‘ Only three old women at church yesterday , ’ my father would greet me hopefully , as cars streamed past in all directions . |
| 20 | Even in those early years , when honest old men were tossing out such useful snippets of information as ‘ Macrobius would be the man ’ , the college did not provide soulmates of the kind Lewis always craved . |
| 21 | Fred Van Dyke , a pioneer of the North Shore breaks , recalls a time in the late fifties when he and Pat Curren ( Tom Curren 's father ) were sitting on the beach at Banzai and Pat said , ‘ Maybe in two thousand years this place will be surfed . ’ |
| 22 | Okay , erm I 'm a littl I 'm a little bit I 'm a little bit worried about er this er exploitation of people and security because they 've got no proven record and no medical evidence , if he was that good this guy will be a millionaire and people will be growing hair all the time , to put somebody on the chair , without knowing if that person 's got blood pressure or heart problems , they could suffer from a s a stroke erm have er or be partially paralysed , so I I think I like to see this man here maybe in ten fifteen years time with proper proven er medical evidence . |
| 23 | Well then in thirty five years open the precinct thirteen now . |
| 24 | And er there was a stage when we came to the , where we really decided we 'd have to earmark different streets , how far we were gon na go in the centre of the town , because people were beginning to get grants for altering houses , and then in another five years time the council , the council were having to buy back these houses to redevelop the area . |
| 25 | So great had his concentration been on finishing the maps that Green had had little time to do anything else in those difficult years excepting for a brief visit to Buttermere in 1791 , and in 1793 he went to Wales and the Lake District with his stalwart helper Thornton ; but in 1794 he revisited Cumberland for twelve weeks two of which were devoted to Buttermere . |