Example sentences of "[unc] in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
2 | William 's suspension of habeas corpus in the early years of the war , his use of the royal veto , and his attempt to retain a standing army in peacetime after the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 , further aroused Country suspicions about the strength of the executive . |
3 | Th in the coming years we will make budget provisions for cameras and the hardware at the site will be provided for by . |
4 | Because of increasing mechanization , higher wages , and higher costs , the agricultural work-force diminished by about 60 per cent in the thirty years from 1946 to 1975 , from almost one million to under 400,000 . |
5 | Jasny maintained that ‘ Instead of actually rising by 55 per cent in the five years from 1927/28 to 1932/33 , as provided in the approved version of the Five Year Plan , total farm output declined by 14 per cent between 1928 and 1933 . ’ |
6 | Swan numbers in the UK have increased by 25 per cent in the five years since anglers stopped using lead weights , according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
7 | real increases in beer prices of 15 per cent in the six years ending December 1986 ; |
8 | In his own beloved English , it was always higher , averaging 71.3 per cent in the three years he offered the subject ; French , which was only offered in his first year produced a convincing 75 per cent ; and Economics , offered in two years , 62 per cent . |
9 | After allowing for inflation the net income of the City within this category ( which excludes interest and dividends received ) tripled between 1966 and 1977 , but then it was almost stationary until rising by a further 20 per cent in the three years preceding 1983 . |
10 | In the worst-affected NRA region , Northumbria , reported incidents increased by 57 per cent in the three years 1988-90 . |
11 | Saudi Oil Minister Hisham Nazer asserted that his country was actually intending to increase its production capacity by up to 30 per cent in the coming years , from the current 8,400,000 bpd to around 12,000,000 bpd ( compared with its agreed quota of 5,400,000 bpd before the outbreak of the Gulf war ) . |
12 | Given that the proportion of over-75 's in the population will rise by 14 per cent in the 30 years from 1 98 1 , the needs of the traffic vulnerable will inevitably become more insistent . |
13 | In the UK , emissions of man-made hydrocarbons or VOCs ( volatile organic compounds ) increased 12 per cent in the ten years to 1985 , largely owing to increased road traffic . |
14 | In the cities , public-sector service jobs declined by 7 per cent in the 1970s , and private-sector services fell by 22 per cent in the 20 years after 1961 ( Begg , Moore and Rhodes , 1986 ) . |