Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
| 2 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 3 | Although the number is lower than in previous years , there is still clearly much more to be done to reach our goal . |
| 4 | ‘ In these times of stiff competition and a market that is less favourable than in previous years , competitors are turning in less good results , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The magazine is quarterly and in recent years has devoted each issue to a focused topic . |
| 6 | In March 1941 the drill was very simple but in later years all manner of complexities were necessary . |
| 7 | Crowds today appeared to be larger than in recent years despite poor weather forecasts . |
| 8 | The cards are now larger than in previous years and we have found that this size proved very popular . |
| 9 | Table 3 , below , shows that although the limited duration of the present Call-slip analysis exercise meant that fewer issues were monitored in 1981 than in earlier years , the proportion of all issues which were in foreign languages remained remarkably constant , at around 4% . |
| 10 | After all , you 'll have to move pretty fast to do all that in two years , wo n't you ? ’ |
| 11 | While it remains to be seen which , if any , of these options is adopted , it is not very encouraging that in recent years a number of offers of adoption have apparently been made by national bodies , only to be discouraged by the DES . |
| 12 | Bela Kádár , the Hungarian permanent representative to COMECON , said on Jan. 5 that in recent years the organization had " lost touch with the realities of international politics and economics " , and that for this reason it had been essential to wind it up . |
| 13 | ‘ In the younger years there 's more than in older years , I think you 'll find . |
| 14 | The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent . |
| 15 | ‘ We still have nearly 200 young people undergoing training on this site and although it continues to be less than in earlier years , because the business scene has changed , our overall commitment to training and development certainly has not . ’ |
| 16 | Competition between the parties was , however , somewhat less than in previous years . |
| 17 | But the rate of increase is much smaller than in recent years and some police forces including the Metropolitan Police recorded fewer crimes . |
| 18 | He sailed for Bombay in 1818 and in succeeding years travelled between Bombay and Canton , as supercargo on the Sarah , of which he was co-owner . |
| 19 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 20 | Attendance was considerably higher than in previous years , with over 1,000 visitors per day . |
| 21 | It is notable that in recent years , the ‘ Tebbit doctrine ’ has sought to narrow the scope of monopoly and merger references to cases that raise clear issues of competition . |
| 22 | Although it was a leaner fair than in previous years , attracting just 133 exhibitors , one-half of which were drawn from Madrid and other Spanish cities , ARCO ( 11–17 February ) , Spain 's top contemporary art fair , retained its renowned sense of style . |
| 23 | Disorder was again evident in 1982 and in subsequent years , although on a reduced scale ( Benyon and Solomos , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 25 | He was told that they were unaware of any plan to switch the ceremony to the afternoon and that arrangements were the same as in previous years . |
| 26 | In this context the Vulcan would be perhaps less relevant than in recent years . |
| 27 | It is not surprising that in recent years they have served interchangeably in the hands of various theorists as models of each other . |
| 28 | He had received his political education in the household of Nur ed-Din , ruler of Syria from 1154 to 1174 and in those years the crusaders ' greatest enemy . |
| 29 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 30 | Haymo found on a tour of the diocese that the Palace at Halling with its farming implements and utensils was in a much dilapidated state and he is quoted as saying the state of the property of the diocese was so bad that in seven years the damage could not be made good . |