Example sentences of "[noun pl] and in [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London .
2 The former approach has been the classical one , dating from the early statistical models of rubber elasticity based on random walk theory ; the latter has been followed by the rheologists , those who study solution properties and in recent years developed in new directions by de Gennes and Edwards and their collaborators .
3 ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself .
4 Now they are beginning to soak up thousands of unwanted male lambs off Scottish hill farms and in five years are expected to be soaking up even more .
5 It seems unlikely that these three diseases attack with equal intensity in all seasons and in all years .
6 Ciba-Geigy runs company management courses and in recent years there has been a steady increase in the number of women in these courses .
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