Example sentences of "[num] in the [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Independent chapel at Bullhouse had been erected by Elkanah Rich of Bullhouse Hall in 1692 in the early years of religious toleration and in 1786 another Independent chapel had been established 2 miles away at Netherfield , where the services were much more evangelical in tone . |
| 2 | Brewer and co-workers ( 1988 ) report that , in 1981 alone , 30,000 rounds of plastic bullets were fired , compared with 55,000 in the 5 years up to 1975 . |
| 3 | The Kaszubians came under strong pressure to Germanise under Frederick the Great , and again under Wilhelm II in the early years of the Reich . |
| 4 | Altogether between 1250 and 1435 over sixteen thousand excommunicates were notified to chancery , and of these almost three thousand occur in the decade 1275–84 and another two thousand in the remaining years of the century . |
| 5 | The recent excesses of the financial world inevitably invite comparisons with the 1930s , when share prices fell by two-thirds in the five years following the Great Crash of 1929 . |
| 6 | BR investment is forecast at £5 billion in the five years to March 1994 , about double the rate of the past five years . |
| 7 | Understandably , these fires — which at thirty shillings were cheap to buy and easy to install — were widely sold in their millions in the postwar years . |
| 8 | Would my honourable friend , is my honourable friend aware that employment in London and the South East has actually risen by over two hundred in the ten years from March nineteen eighty three and will she confirm that some of the hundred and fifty thousand places in the new apprenticeship scheme will be available in London ? |
| 9 | This relatively rapid linguistic change in Belfast has accompanied its rise in population from about 120,000 in 1860 to nearly half a million in the early years of this century , and Belfast may be taken as an exemplar of linguistic change in fast-growing communities ( while rural towns and villages adhere to older patterns ) . |
| 10 | For instance , the number of working-age people ( 16-pensionable age ) grew by 1.2 million between 1971 and 1981 and by a further 1.3 million in the seven years up to 1988 , while the age groups spanning the period of most intense new household formation ( 15–44 years old ) contained 3.6 million more people in 1988 than at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 11 | There was a dramatic flowering of public discussion and debate ; whereas under Nicholas I on average no more than eight new journals were founded annually , that number leaped to thirty-three in the early years of Alexander II 's reign . |