Example sentences of "[coord] in [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 34 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 35 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |
| 36 | But in later years they got a gig and it was far easier on the pony you see with a big heavy man riding a pony is awful tiresome on the pony you see . |
| 37 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 38 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |
| 39 | But in 24 years nothing has been done . |