Example sentences of "[verb] in [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot more tetanus , but no more than was carried in here fifty years ago in the First War . |
| 2 | " When our mighty French warships sailed in here sixty years ago the old Annamese scholars kept their distance . |
| 3 | She confided afterwards that it was the first sexual contact she 'd had in over five years . |
| 4 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
| 5 | At one site , the amount of coral had been halved in just three years . |
| 6 | With over eighty pits closed down , a work-force more than halved in only four years from 171,000 to just 80,000 , the emergence of a second , more conciliatory union , and above all , after the defeat of the National Union of Mineworkers in an historically lengthy strike , it just was n't an argument that held water . |
| 7 | On the Worcestershire Stour , ten mill sites have been removed in as many years . |
| 8 | Every month , we got this cost of living , course it did n't er it did n't er fluctuate like it did in more recent years , but it was a safeguard and we always got increases on top of that like piece work increase and and er it it was a it was a good union , it you know . |
| 9 | By the time they retire in December , he and his wife Shirley will have put in nearly 100 years here between them . |
| 10 | However , perceptions of the benign nature of taxation have begun to change in more recent years , reverting back to those of Clarke and Keynes . |
| 11 | At St Paul 's Cathedral , London , an average of 30 mm of Portland stone has been lost in the past 250 years , with , in one particularly exposed position , 22 mm being lost in just 45 years ( figure 4.20 ; Dudley et al. , 1985 ) . |
| 12 | This approach , which rakes the shadows to find great , forgotten ghosts , has however faded in more recent years , and a different line of argument has developed . |
| 13 | In fact , these videos are successful — we estimate our market share at 8 per cent , achieved in only five years . |
| 14 | Nothing much has changed in nearly 100 years however , and Mr. Walshaw has no plans to do anything more than careful , small scale enhancement and maintenance using traditional methods and family labour . |
| 15 | Unemployment among 16 and 17-year-olds has DOUBLED in just two years to one in six , says a report today . |
| 16 | Unemployment among 16 and 17-year-olds has DOUBLED in just two years to one in six , says a report today . |
| 17 | Levels of recorded crime certainly did shoot up in the years following the implementation of the 1933 Act , and the crime rate for boys under 14 years of age found guilty of indictable offences almost doubled in only three years . |