Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway who has followed the actions of the opposition in Bremen or Hamburg in recent years can hardly avoid the conclusion that the Christian Democrats ( the opposition ) are not interested in gaining power ( since lucrative public positions are given to them anyway ) … |
| 2 | ‘ He could be back as coach or manager in four years time . |
| 3 | Spring passage or arrival in recent years has been noted between 21 March ( 1973 ) and 22 May , but , in ‘ Quail years ’ , arrival possibly continues well into June . |
| 4 | It will then focus on direct , VAR and systems integrator sales of the US product to large and medium accounts , take the organisation through the incubation process and sell the subsidiary back to the US company for cash or shares in three years time . |
| 5 | Rugby at Murrayfield has become Scotland 's best chance to express its nationhood — more so than Hampden in recent years . |
| 6 | That , in turn , would destroy the government 's anti-inflation credentials ( inflation has fallen from 30% to less than 12% in two years ) and make higher real interest rates likely . |
| 7 | The history of my birth is unclear because NHS records have now been lost , so doctors in later years could only guess at the cause of my disability which became evident a few week after I was born . |
| 8 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 9 | But it paid out more than £440,000 in two years , and now the kitty is running dry . |
| 10 | There 's talk too of doing The Tempest at Hartlepool Marina plus shows in Stockton and Middlesbrough in future years . |
| 11 | This sector of the industry has been characterized by an extraordinarily rapid series of takeovers and mergers in recent years to create the multiples shown . |
| 12 | To keep pace with these fast-moving subjects , undergraduates become involved in industrially-relevant projects and research in later years of the course . |
| 13 | As Ivan Nagy , the Russian-trained Hungarian dancer who runs English National Ballet , points out , to produce four great artists like Nureyev , Makarova , Baryshnikov and Mukhamedov in 30 years is not a great striking rate for so huge a nation . |
| 14 | Others who have undertaken the care of the church and halls in later years have been Mrs Bell , Mrs Carson , Mr and Mrs Redpath , Mr James Twyble , Mr John Lavery , Mrs David Binks , Mrs K McClatchey and Mr William McFadden . |
| 15 | Stress is a subject which has received a lot of attention and study in recent years . |
| 16 | It was all of these factors and experiences which made him an outstanding teacher and a distinguished consultant ( perhaps the only person to be Chairman of the local association of the ICE and IStructE in successive years ) . |
| 17 | Unitarian tendencies were found amongst some Quakers in both England and Ireland in these years and the Liverpool abolitionist William Rathbone 's sympathetic treatment of them led to his disownment by the Friends and the passage of his family to Unitarianism . |
| 18 | Winter sea-watching at Selsey Bill has shown westerly movement to predominate during January and February in some years , suggesting some passage continues from October to February . |
| 19 | It occurs to me , being in this place at this time with no sign of an approaching end to the Kaffir war and all things uncertain , that it may be of interest to record the passages of everyday life if only as a source of remembrance and reflection in later years . |
| 20 | The same is true of political projects responding to the specific problems of the public sector and state enterprises , such as those that have emerged in Britain and Spain in recent years . |
| 21 | The parallel markets have grown in size and importance in recent years . |
| 22 | The abandonment of free trade by Britain in 1931/2 has attracted growing interest from historians and economists in recent years . |
| 23 | Much of the systematic anthropological work on war and conflict in recent years has been made within an ecological or socio-biological analytical framework . |
| 24 | Although ‘ the growing relevance of social work research to daily practice ’ may be one of the ‘ most significant of the changes to face social workers and agencies in recent years ’ ( David Jones , General Secretary , British Association of Social Workers ) it is still regrettably true that knowledge and use of research findings in policy and practice are relatively uncommon , and rarely a regular part of routine thinking and planning . |
| 25 | Due to staff shortages and changes in previous years , a backlog of about 25,000 withdrawals from the SUC had accumulated . |
| 26 | The club , led by Chris Gray , the Scotland lock , and at reasonable strength after an injury-ridden winter , have ruined the title hopes of Gloucester and Bath in other years at this time . |
| 27 | His work remains largely in the hands of private collectors , and has so far escaped the reassessment and appreciation give to fellow Cubists Picasso , Braque and Leger in recent years . |
| 28 | The problem of replacement had been made particularly acute because of the lack of repair and replacement in earlier years , especially during the war and civil war . |
| 29 | Most of her research and publications in recent years have concerned residential care , quality of life , and social work developments in relation to older people and their families . |
| 30 | Finland 's principal breed since 1960 , originally derived from 1,600 Ayrshire cattle imported direct from Scotland between 1847 and 1923 , since when importations have ceased , though some semen has been brought in from Britain , the USA and Norway in recent years . |