Example sentences of "[noun prp] in [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The success of those appearances in the cities of Tokyo and Nagoya owed everything to the professionalism that had transformed Kylie in two short years from innocent to hard-headed star . |
| 2 | Engineer Peter William Barlow sank the first hole in the ground on Tower Hill in 1869. 130 years on we 've got creaking trains that have been in service for 30 years and more . |
| 3 | For many this was the first time they 'd been back to Parham in thirty six years . |
| 4 | They struck gold in Kalgorlie in 1893. 100 years on and they 're celebrating another major rush . |
| 5 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 6 | In the advanced capitalist countries as a whole the share of consumption declined far less than it did in Japan in those exceptional years — between 1952 and 1973 it only slid down from 62.9 per cent of GDP to 59.5 per cent . |
| 7 | We did n't often go to London in those last years . |