Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 32 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 33 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 34 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 35 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 38 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
| 39 | Birds respond to a wide range of sounds but for many years it was assumed that their low-frequency hearing was poorer than ours . |
| 40 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |
| 41 | But for two years I was afraid . |
| 42 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 43 | My mother hoped to have a daughter after I was born , but for five years I was the only child . |
| 44 | She was the British critics ' favourite on both the Bolshoi 's tours here , but for 20 years she played second fiddle to Grigorovich 's wife , Bessmertnova . |
| 45 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |
| 46 | Will was writing more slowly now , but during these years he wrote some of his best plays : Othello , Macbeth , and King Lear . |
| 47 | ‘ When the war ended he returned to live in Italy and marry his girlfriend , but after twelve years he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England . ’ |
| 48 | But after 30 years we are getting used to the idea that we might finish our lives together . ’ |
| 49 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 50 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
| 51 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 52 | Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars . |
| 53 | The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals . |
| 54 | But in recent years it has lost its fury . |
| 55 | It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries . |
| 56 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 57 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 58 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |
| 59 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 60 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |