Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just in case you 're tempted by knockdown prices on old style monitors , by the way , you should bear in mind that in four years time it will actually become illegal to use them at all at work . |
| 2 | It might be noted at this point that in recent years there has been a dramatic growth in the volume of business conducted in the interbank market and this has become a major source of liquidity for banks . |
| 3 | In April 1989 a United States drug enforcement agent gave his personal guarantee that in two years time the United Kingdom would have a serious crack problem . |
| 4 | There is also evidence that in recent years this group has experienced particular financial problems . |
| 5 | I refer not only to the fact that the match started with two wides , courtesy of Chris Lewis ; not only to the strange sight of an opening bowler in odd socks ( Neil Mallender black left sock , white right sock ) ; not only to the fact that England had no player with three initials for the first time since the third Test against New Zealand in 1990 , the selectors having left out Salisbury and having sent get-well-soon messages to DeFreitas , Tufnell and Fraser ; not only to the fact that Mallender joined the huge list of Test opening bowlers with a double ‘ I ’ in their name ( a list that in recent years has included Dilley , Allott , Small , Williams and Ellison : expect Millns to add his name to the pile soon . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that in earlier years Clarkson 's relations with some of the Claphamites had occasionally been strained . |
| 7 | Unless today 's firms learn to manage for profit , not just for the revenue generated by the next deal , it is a fair bet that in fewer years than that many of them will have gone the same way . |
| 8 | MI6 remains to this day a secret organisation that does not officially exist despite the fact that in recent years there have been numerous books written about its activities . |
| 9 | The fact that in recent years a very large number of children have had their work in art , music , drama and dance submitted for public examinations ( Vickerman , 1986 ) suggests that there are some compelling reasons why arts teachers seem to be willing to overcome their basic feelings of unease about this process . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the fact that in recent years some clinicians have had cause to question the cultural background suggests that it can no longer be neglected . |