Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] years [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Lyle , Faldo twice and Woosnam did in successive years has broken what ever invincibility the home players thought they had . |
| 2 | The CML disputed that lenders had in recent years relied on the availability of cover under the Compensation and Indemnity Funds to relax their own business practices , and claimed that lenders were largely responding to public demands for more streamlined conveyancing procedures . |
| 3 | In fact , in this company division , cost-accounting had in recent years become pre-eminently a pre-investment activity , but this obviously was a function of the nature of the business . |
| 4 | Yet it turns out that Mr Yanagitani , who was dismissed from Daiwa last month , had in recent years turned into an aspiring George Soros . |
| 5 | The fisheries minister , Thorsteinn Pálsson , justified the move on the grounds that the IWC had in recent years concentrated exclusively on conservation aspects of whaling , while according to its charter it had a twofold task of both conserving and exploiting whales . |
| 6 | Stephanie had in other years enjoyed this believed fairy tale : this year her own heaviness , fear perhaps of real birth , prevented her . |
| 7 | The massive contamination in the animals autopsied in recent years provides little cause for optimism . |