Example sentences of "and in [adj] years [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former approach has been the classical one , dating from the early statistical models of rubber elasticity based on random walk theory ; the latter has been followed by the rheologists , those who study solution properties and in recent years developed in new directions by de Gennes and Edwards and their collaborators . |
| 2 | The function of research and development was very active , constantly upgrading product quality and in recent years moving into related products . |
| 3 | It is consulted regularly by the Conference of Bishops , and in recent years has made great strides in making the women 's voice heard , and enabling women to play their part in the collaboration at all levels in the Church . |
| 4 | The magazine is quarterly and in recent years has devoted each issue to a focused topic . |
| 5 | It deals with major negotiating items that have not been settled at the RSJC and in recent years has been the forum in which the unions present their annual pay claims . |
| 6 | These fish are native to North America and in recent years have been widely used to stock artificial fisheries throughout Britain . |
| 7 | Items can be found on every continent and in recent years have become very popular again , especially as collectors pieces . |
| 8 | Moneylenders have abounded in every society , and in recent years have achieved great importance in developed economies because of the stimulus that their services have given to trade . |
| 9 | Public sector wages were squeezed tighter still , and in four years fell 9 per cent behind the private sector . |
| 10 | He sailed for Bombay in 1818 and in succeeding years travelled between Bombay and Canton , as supercargo on the Sarah , of which he was co-owner . |
| 11 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 12 | Many of the nationalists abandoned the hopes of a popular movement , and in subsequent years came to rely upon forces other than popular struggle : Bismarck and the rulers of Prussia , and the House of Savoy . |
| 13 | Students take three subjects in the first year and in subsequent years continue with two of these subjects either as joint or major/minor options for the honours degree . |
| 14 | He created the Holy Alliance of Christian monarchs dedicated to peace and upholding the existing order , and in subsequent years urged Great Power intervention against national revolutions in Spain , piedmont , Naples and , with less conviction , Orthodox Greece . |
| 15 | This comprised quite a large industrial site and in later years became an important iron and tinplate rolling works . |
| 16 | Tom Parker left to manage Norwich , and in later years became assistant manager of his original club , Southampton . |
| 17 | His predecessors had farmed these revenues for less than £50 a year , and in some years failed to make any payment at all . |