Example sentences of "even in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the early years , Piper 's percentage gave him $8,000 a year , making him amongst the highest paid men in Australia . |
| 2 | Even in the early years of the nineteenth century the middle-class streets had ‘ prospects ’ of the country and the older working-class houses at least still had gardens . |
| 3 | Even in the best years for agriculture , people have been leaving the land because the trend is towards larger units , maximising productivity and getting the best out of the work force . |
| 4 | The decision-making procedures within the BEA were , however , slow and , even when a decision to advance design had been taken , some headquarters engineers argued that there should be no change in station designs even in the two years before its sets were ordered ( typically seven years before planned commissioning and eight years before actual commissioning ) . |
| 5 | One thing that marks the Carpenters out is their uncanny fondness for incorporating the names of distaff families into their own ; from the early days of the 18th century we can spot the Frome and Rodden Carpenters by their use of the name ‘ Thynn ’ as a first or second Christian name for boys , and even in the middle years of the 19th century a branch of the family in London called one son Starmer Thynne Carpenter . |
| 6 | For events that appear to be crises at the time ( although not in a longer perspective ) occur even in the intervening years . |
| 7 | Even in the good years Israel had only a share . |
| 8 | The growth in pre-school services , which in no way matches parental demand , might be seen as clear evidence that some of the family 's functions in child-rearing , even in the earliest years , are being taken over by professionals ( e.g. nursery teachers and nursery nurses ) and other ‘ specialist ’ child carers ( e.g. child minders ) . |
| 9 | The local press tended to be bland , and ‘ stirring things up ’ , even in the angry years of the late 1960s , was the preserve of ‘ alternative ’ community newspapers . |
| 10 | Even in the worst years of the Depression there were still people wealthy enough to give their cast-offs to the poor , and they did n't come much poorer than a Salvation Army officer 's family . |
| 11 | The sudden fall of an able and apparently powerful minister such as the Duc de Choiseul in 1770 showed that even in the last years of the lethargic and indifferent Louis XV this control was real . |
| 12 | Even in the few years since Volumes I and II of the Supplement were published , numerous words and meanings in the range A-N have emerged which are therefore not to be found in the largest Oxford Dictionary . |