Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far present-day societies are likely to proceed along this road is a matter of debate ( and I shall return to the question in Chapter 6 ) , but at the least it has to be recognized that in recent years the idea of political action has been very substantially broadened , so that there is already a quite widespread awareness of the variety of ways in which individuals and groups of individuals can assert their dissent from the policies of government at all levels ( for example , the revolt against the poll tax in Britain ) and bring into the arena of public debate alternative policies . |
| 2 | It has been said that in recent years his allegiance shifted from Sisley to Monet ! ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never seen that in twenty years of football , ’ he said . |
| 4 | But Sweden has also promised that in 20 years its emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) , the main greenhouse gas , will have dropped to 1986 levels . |
| 5 | If the food-crisis peaks of 1795 , 1800 – 1 and 1812 – 13 are disregarded — for it can be firmly concluded that in those years , as in 1739 – 40 and 1766 – 7 , the living standards of wage-earners must have been substantially , though temporarily , reduced — then the general real-wage trend of the war years suggests no marked movement either way . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |