Example sentences of "in [adj] years [pers pn] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 2 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 3 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 4 | In recounting my coming out story in later years I have always sited this period of my life as extremely important to my subsequent emergence as a lesbian . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs . |
| 7 | But they worked out in three years she 's put on seven stone because she eats . |
| 8 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
| 9 | But on the other hand I get $1000 a month tax free for five months every year , and so far in three years I have n't touched a cent of the money . |
| 10 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 11 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 12 | In twenty-five years he had not been ‘ ten times in a tavern , eight times in a coffee house ’ . |
| 13 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 14 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 15 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 16 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 17 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 18 | In five years he had turned a struggling side into formidable Championship contenders capable of springing surprises on League giants in the Cup . |
| 19 | In nine years he has brought the Labour Party back from the dead to the brink of power . |
| 20 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 21 | ‘ In 15 years I 've never been injured . |
| 22 | In other years she had displayed appropriate sympathy about sports day . |
| 23 | For example The Sunday Times has asserted that , ‘ In recent years we 've experienced a new , aggressive , liberated criminality in women ’ ( 30 March , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | Now , er , before I hand over to Frank er , a word about the dividend er , in recent years we 've paid an interim dividend which was half the total of the previous year 's dividends and so , er , had a built-in increase . |
| 25 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
| 26 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 27 | In recent years we have seen great efforts being made at all levels to ensure that children learn effectively . |
| 28 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , in recent years we have been moving , albeit slowly and hesitantly , towards the view that the primary school should regard itself as one element in a united national service to children . |
| 30 | In recent years we have learned much about the internal anatomy of cephalapsids and galeaspids which had a bony skeleton surrounding the brain and gills . |