Example sentences of "[adv] in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again there is a looming shortage , both of experienced leadership to implement the National Curriculum in primary schools , as there is an unprecedented turnover of headteachers , but also a prospective shortage of teachers themselves , especially in the early years . |
| 2 | Since the fraction of faults that are unfamiliar , ie the novelty rate , is high , especially in the early years of repair , the rate at which the knowledge base is changing is also high . |
| 3 | LEFT The relationship between a child and both its parents , especially in the early years , seems to have a dominant effect on how well the child will be able to exploit her or his intelligence in later life . |
| 4 | Our only concern is that you can afford the repayments without putting undue strain on your finances — especially in the early years . |
| 5 | Most of the Britishers were quite young ; a 30-year-old was a survivor , especially in the early years . |
| 6 | There was a prohibition of the import of cotton cloth ( 1771 ) ; the gap between Castilian and Catalan taxation , which favoured Catalonia ; the rapid importation of foreign improvements in textile manufacture ( especially in the early years of the nineteenth century ) . |
| 7 | In the desperate circumstances of Edward 's war , especially in the last years of the reign , prayer was not always enough and the clergy had frequent occasions to become in a literal sense the church militant . |
| 8 | It is somewhat easier to see how a rurally-based tradition of collectivism could have survived in pre-industrial Japan , especially in the 250 years of isolationist rule which lasted until the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 10 | However , this sector of the Environment Services Division has expanded greatly in the ten years that it has been operating |
| 11 | So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses . |
| 12 | A transfer on such a scale , from those who work to those who do not , may be manageable today ; it will be less so in the early years of the next century , when the number of workers per pensioner will start to fall sharply . |
| 13 | I mean that 's the som that 's er an issue that er has been dealt with I think it 's policy resources can continue to be so in the coming years . |
| 14 | Well , those that could [ stop us ] did so in the earlier years , so we never played them up again . |
| 15 | More or less in the same years about 300 B.C. the greatest pupil of Aristotle , Theophrastus , became interested in Jewish customs within the context of his comparative researches on Piety . |
| 16 | Making fathers pay the poll tax for their under-age children , he said , hindered the growth of population , which had advanced less in the twenty years since the mid-1830s than it had in the twenty years before that . |
| 17 | This means that silviculture of spruce on a 55-year rotation is less conducive to vegetation diversity , which attains its maximum only in the early years when light conditions are favourable . |
| 18 | ‘ It was only in the last years that you knew us . ’ |
| 19 | Starting with a bank loan of £4,000 , Roddick had no time to sit down in the early years and draw up a grandiose mission of what her organisation should set out to achieve . |
| 20 | It began to break down in the post-war years and during that period , too , the concentration of control functions in London also began to increase . |
| 21 | The stealing networks did not disappear entirely in the early years of the twentieth century , but their geographical range and the extent of their operations was sharply curtailed . |
| 22 | The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the first was published , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn[000] . |
| 23 | The role of the scientific journal has not changed much in the 300 years since the publication of the first such journal , although greater dependence is placed on it than ever before , according to Osburn . |
| 24 | Not in a million years . |
| 25 | Not in a million years . |
| 26 | No parent is going to believe this pigtail story , not in a million years . |
| 27 | The Roy I knew would never take that from anyone , not in a million years . ’ |
| 28 | Not in a million years . |
| 29 | Not in a million years , Mr. Kopek . |
| 30 | ‘ Not in a hundred years , ’ Gloria said . |