Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or two of the old films are now on CD video because they are important documents of certain artists , but the way we are filming and editing the films I am now making is completely different We have learnt a very great deal in these years and so we forget about the older films just as you would n't dream of driving around in a thirty-year-old car . |
| 2 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 3 | The Socialist Party had not only suffered its worst election defeat in 25 years but also given every appearance of being in the process of disintegration . |
| 4 | They just do n't actually have that information , a lot of small local groups , and I think maybe the C B S could work with the Engineers department in future years and try to get to those groups , because I 'm sure a lot of them , actually if they were given the opportunity in time to get in , that , that you might have a lot of people applying for flag and whatever than you do now . |
| 5 | However , the bill exempted the mosque in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh , an issue which had provoked fierce rioting in recent years and had played a major part in the collapse of the government of V. P. Singh in November 1990 [ see p. 37854 ] . |
| 6 | This is an area that has come to prominence in recent years as new kinds of instruments such as auction market preferred shares ( AMPS ) , convertible debt with premium put options and convertible capital bonds have appeared . |
| 7 | They have become commoner in recent years as business executives and their employers have sought a means of solving disputes without recourse to courts of law . |
| 8 | The Bank of England has lost some independence in recent years because of the formalisation of what were previously informal supervisory activities . |
| 9 | The four short-listed artists are Grenville Davey , Damien Hirst , David Tremlett and Alison Wilding , each of whom has produced an impressive body of work in recent years and is beginning to enjoy international recognition , but none of whom will be familiar to a wider audience . |
| 10 | This was the Finaghy lads first fight at home in six years and you could almost feel seismic waves of anticipation as he came to the ringside . |
| 11 | So much has been written concerning this question in recent years that it would waste space to reiterate arguments as to the moral , sociological , psychological and medical aspects of the problem . |
| 12 | It 's also the first major re-design of the spreadsheet in 10 years and it 's a vast improvement . |
| 13 | Connie 's garden has achieved considerable fame in recent years and has appeared in a number of books . |
| 14 | Mr Noel Stock , who speaks as one who had Pound 's confidence in recent years and was in daily contact with him , explains that this passage derives from a hint thrown out by Jessie L. Weston in her from Ritual to Romance , to the effect that the charges of heresy brought against the Templars were not wholly unfounded , since some of the practices of the Eleusinian mystery-cults from the pagan Near East survived in the heart of Christendom in the rituals of the Templars , a survival to be traced in literature in the stories and poems about the quest of the holy grail . |
| 15 | WEST HAM midfielder Martin Allen was yesterday handed a four-match ban and a £1,000 fine by the Football Association — less than 24 hours after his team-mate Julian Dicks received his 40th booking in five years and admitted he had considered quitting the game . |
| 16 | More individuals therefore enter the population in some years than in others . |
| 17 | Furthermore , since males become sexually mature later than females , a smaller male proportion may be entering the reproductive population in some years than in others . |
| 18 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 19 | It was the worst mine explosion in 20 years and a culmination of a series of explosions caused by the owners , eagerness to bring out coal from the crept workings . |
| 20 | When he goes on the one day in two years that something went wrong , that shows he 's doing a good job . ’ |
| 21 | However , Jerrome 's findings do not refer at all to ‘ tending ’ activities ; the importance of friends in old age seems to be more about a natural extension of satisfying experiences and modes of behaviour in earlier years than about a changed conception of the nature of the relationship which could accommodate more ‘ caring ’ activity . |
| 22 | We need to start somewhere in an analysis and it might be useful to review the rate of penetration of another , related consumer electronics platform in recent years and to use this as some guide to the penetration we might expect from multimedia platforms . |
| 23 | All these methods have been used in nurse education in recent years and reflect the student-centred approaches being adopted by many nurse educators . |
| 24 | Still , only Red Rum has won the race in successive years since the Second World War and Party Politics has a lot to do . |
| 25 | I had n't ridden a bicycle in thirty years and was none too confidently negotiating the potholes , when suddenly an incredible-looking blue-black bird with a ridiculously long tail flew across the track — and I rode straight into the ditch ! |
| 26 | The new law constituted the first major revision of the quotas of legal immigration in 25 years and ranked in importance with the Quota Act of 1921 , which established the first numerical restrictions , and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 . |
| 27 | Rail fares have been rising at around 1 ½ per cent over inflation in recent years and the new corporate plan also warns that BR has 12 months to assess whether passengers would pay even more for a better service . |
| 28 | The IT industry has been subject to rapid development in recent years and it is confidently expected that this trend will continue . |
| 29 | United have not won the title in 25 years since , and though there might be a spiritual and timely link between a player of Cantona 's style and those noble Reds of old , it is Eusebio , the Black Panther , who takes centre stage tonight . |
| 30 | An end to the worst bloodshed in recent years and the prospect of national peace and increased democracy was widely considered to be dependent on the successful outcome of three events taking place simultaneously . |