Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One woman derelict told her that after living with three husbands for twenty-five years she had decided to give them up and devote herself to the task of viewing the Cathedrals and Abbeys of the British Isles . |
| 2 | He says he agrees with Mr Tebbit that many of the evil deeds of recent years which have seen child murders and terrorism of a particularly disgusting type , can not be answered by ‘ mere questions of policing , penal treatment or sentencing policy and can not either be justified or explained by talking of urban deprivation and unemployment . ’ |
| 3 | The Report began by identifying some 130,000 part-time teachers in further and adult education who were at that time employed by local authorities and although nobody knows how many are employed over the country as a whole at present , even after the severe reductions of recent years they are likely to number more than 100,000 . |
| 4 | The neglect of the needs of those disabled after retirement age is excused by reference to the growth in pensioners ' incomes in recent years which , of course , overlooks the acute poverty among older people with disabilities and the fact that the growth in incomes has been concentrated among better-off pensioners . |
| 5 | ‘ Though events have revealed no single doctrine by which all issues of privilege arising between Parliament and the courts may be resolved , many of the problems of earlier years which are dealt with above have been substantially solved . |
| 6 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 7 | It has been the site of a number of archaeological explorations in recent years which have yielded valuable information about earlier settlements , with discoveries of bronze spears , remains of chariots , and graves of several warriors . |
| 8 | In longterm studies over several years he shows that with a wheat free diet these children are gaining weight and are reaching anormal growth pattern by comparison with age matched controls . |
| 9 | Having displayed in this clear format what has been happening , you will then be able to interpret the general trend , and raise questions regarding those years which proved to be exceptions to the overall picture . |
| 10 | I have talked to lady presidents of prior years who have said that they did not experience any difficulties . |
| 11 | At the start of the negotiations the ACP countries called for a wide-ranging revision of the convention to take account of developments in recent years which had adversely affected their economies , in particular rising debt ( currently estimated at USdollars 200,000 million for the sub-Saharan countries alone ) and falling commodity prices . |
| 12 | After attending Sunday Mass in several parishes in recent years I have experienced attempts in some churches to get the people singing . |
| 13 | This was one cause of the severe financial problems of the railways in later years which led to increasing state intervention even before nationalization . |
| 14 | These differences can be seen quite early on ; we have found boys aged 14 years who were opting for science to be significantly more authoritarian than their peers . |