Example sentences of "[adv] in [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many and many a time have we looked , have I alone in more recent years looked , for certain things thus revealed to us in passing . |
| 2 | It is only in relatively recent years that two sexes have been recognized in ammonoid species . |
| 3 | The ‘ superstore ’ Failed to prove a viable proposition and it subsequently became a workshop for a specialist firm of motorcar body builders used by Rolls Royce cars , and only in more recent years has that business ceased and the premises redeveloped as office accommodation . |
| 4 | Only in more recent years have our dietary habits changed . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , as some might say , the main objective of most of these excavations has been the military sites , and it is only in comparatively recent years that the civil site has gained its just recognition . |
| 6 | Beneath her curled fist she could feel his heart pounding , feel the heavy rhythm of his life ticking away in so many years , so many days , so many hours . |
| 7 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |
| 8 | Despite changes in official and media attitudes to corporal punishment , the Newsons ' research suggests parental habits have altered little in nearly 30 years . |
| 9 | To allow for this inflation all you have to do is calculate the value of £1 now in so many years time and use this as a correction factor . |
| 10 | Having come so far in just 3 years , the suggestion is that success might come sooner rather than later . |
| 11 | The cost of upgrading each workstation to CD-Rom is around £300 , a figure that should be paid back in around three years . |
| 12 | The scale of that activity has grown quite dramatically in very recent years ; it increasingly engages the attention of lawyers in private practice , in the offices of corporate legal counsel , and in government service . |
| 13 | This last problem particularly requires discussion of the recent contention that antislavery petitioning demonstrated a recurrent popular mobilisation , a mass antislavery latent even in seemingly quiescent years which spearheaded dramatic changes in the political culture and had a direct impact on legislature and executive . |
| 14 | Whichever figure is accepted , it can be seen that they are uniformly low at below 5 per cent , even in more recent years . |
| 15 | His assistant , Douglas Morgan , was a new cap in that 1973 game and even in more recent years , McGeechan 's first home Five Nations match as senior coach was against the Welsh ( the 23-7 triumph in 1989 ) . |
| 16 | why this week … well in exactly three years time the Olympic flame will be lit in Atlanta for the next games … and one of the new sports will be laser sailing … and all the boats are being built by the company in Banbury |
| 17 | Mr Powell had only been back twice in nearly 20 years . |
| 18 | At a wider level , as we saw earlier , the West Midlands has suffered heavily in more recent years because of its specialization in manufacturing . |