Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is much annual variation in numbers , but regular sea-watches , which record the bulk of this movement in many years , have not reported more than about 200 birds in any spring . |
| 2 | Status . — A few summer in most years ; regular winter visitor and passage migrant . |
| 3 | Hartwell devoted his brilliant mind and untiring energy in those years after the second world war to forging links between Christians in his adopted country and that of his birth . |
| 4 | Hartwell devoted his brilliant mind and untiring energy in those years after the second world war to forging links between Christians in his adopted country and that of his birth . |
| 5 | The measure allows such companies in those years to apply their mineral depletion allowances to 50% of the value of the finished products rather than to the lower value of raw clay alone . |
| 6 | Some of these figures resulted from litigants pressing the church into action , but as a record of defiance , and presumably as just a fraction of total excommunications in those years , they are unquestionably revealing . |
| 7 | As it happened progress proved possible in three directions in these years — the formation of Nato 's Nuclear Planning Group ; an agreed if rather fuzzy definition of flexible response ; and the negotiation of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with the USSR . |
| 8 | Environmentalists have complained that in contrast to road-building programmes , for example , no attempt has been made to assess the cost of intangible environmental losses to the community , as against financial benefits to the farmer ; that calculations of benefit have assumed unrealistic yields and excessively speedy rates of take-up by farmers ; that there is a reluctance to design low-level flood protection , even when farmers are getting by with an arable crop in most years ; that the inevitable patching of eroding banks as a river reacts to the engineering constraints put upon it is never allowed for in the costs ; and that the benefits anticipated from a drainage schemes are based on what are known as ‘ farm-gate prices ’ received by farmers for their crops . |
| 9 | Deprived of its mother 's constant care in those years , it will grow up emotionally handicapped , incapable of forming deep relationships and might steal in an attempt to compensate for a lack of mother love . |
| 10 | Later this year , we expect , IBM will provide details of its most important development for large systems in several years : a database co-processor . |
| 11 | The rapid growth of private charity in these years also gave rise to institutions demonstrating a variety of approaches to the palliation of poverty . |
| 12 | Even so , Baden-Powell 's intriguing romanticisation of what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ was not an uncommon response in these years . |
| 13 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 14 | This is a copy of Countryd Top copy sent to OBITS Country Diary for Saturday December 9th Machynlleth : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 15 | A Country Diary : MACHYNLLETH : For me a frequent delight in many years of hill-walking in Wales has been to come upon that lively , eye-catching bird the wheatear which so loves to play hide and seek among the rocks . |
| 16 | Actual costs equalled estimated costs in all years . |
| 17 | Other tracts , printed speeches and sermons and local publications by antislavery bodies in those years and earlier added to the vast quantity of printed material . |
| 18 | All pupils in these years follow a general familiarisation course in computer applications timetabled for one period each week . |
| 19 | The uncertain nature of political alignments in these years made it inevitable , then , that a National Government would come under serious consideration as a remedy for Britain 's ills . |
| 20 | McMillan gained surgical experience in these years and when , in 1959 , he joined Paul Chin and Eric Machell , both pioneers themselves , at Southampton , they made steady progress in closed and open-heart surgery . |
| 21 | Tournaments were a regular feature of noble life in these years , and in 1344 at an especially magnificent tournament held at Windsor the king took an oath to establish an Order of Knights of the Round Table as it had existed in the days of Ring Arthur . |
| 22 | And it was indeed hope , education and reformation that dominated the sphere of juvenile justice in these years , most solidly embodied in the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 which consolidated these developments in the treatment of young offenders . |
| 23 | Particularly close links were forged with the National Union of Boot and Shoe Operatives , whose head office was in Northampton and whose Assistant Secretary in these years , Syd Robinson , was chairman of the regional WETUC , chairman of the Northamptonshire Federation and vice-chairman of the District . |
| 24 | The apparent social harmony of the mid-century could be attributed to Britain 's economic success in these years . |
| 25 | This factor also accounts for the changes in the shares of imports taken from the Soviet Union and the developing countries in these years . |
| 26 | It is indeed hard to see how any Unionist leader in these years could have acted against such firm convictions to put the national interest first . |
| 27 | You suspect , though , that featuring male witches is a reaction to economic demands rather than any sort of radical reinterpretation in this , the Redgrave 's first Shakespeare in many years . |
| 28 | Rupert Murdoch told the annual meeting in Adelaide : ‘ This may well be the first year in some years when our earnings do not show their customary increase . ’ |
| 29 | Underlining government irritation with the success of Labour 's presentation , some aides privately are complaining , for the first time in many years , about Labour bias in the Press . |
| 30 | The trial of Mr Subono and Mr Nugroho was the first time in many years that the law was used to try ‘ leftists ’ rather than Muslim activists . |