Example sentences of "in [adj] years [noun prp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In eight years Britain has moved from a current account surplus of 2.5 per cent of GDP to a deficit of 4 per cent of GDP . |
| 2 | In following years France had indeed benefited from the financial bonanza unleashed in Iran by the oil price rise . |
| 3 | In these years Frederick gave Europe its first real example of enlightened despotism in action . |
| 4 | In later years Chapman came to realize that the extension of the league system was having a bad effect on the game . |
| 5 | In later years China sought to present her credentials as a regional power and encourage an interpretation of neutralisation which would be directed against the USSR as an external power and would underline the illegitimacy of Soviet support for Vietnamese actions in Indochina . |
| 6 | In later years Nietzsche came to have a more favourable attitude to these aspects of classical studies , but for the time being his dissatisfaction was almost unqualified . |
| 7 | This new assessment of his home marked an important casting off , a kind of liberation , and if in later years Ottery remained symbolically important to Coleridge , that was only because his recollections of the shaping years of childhood all seemed to gather at the town . |
| 8 | In fourteen years Eleanor had not produced an heir to his kingdom , but in the first six years of her second marriage she had had five children and four of them were boys : William , who died in 1156 , Henry , Richard and Geoffrey . |
| 9 | For the first time in several years Eva found herself taking stock of her own life , realising it fell far short of the wonder and beauty of the life of Christ , and recognising she was heading in the wrong direction . |
| 10 | In four years Kvaerner has all but turned the business round after investing £30m in a new fabrication shed , welding technology , training and working hard at producing a culture change . |
| 11 | In recent years Lothian has been the lead authority in introducing a number of novel facilities specially designed for people with mobility problems . |
| 12 | For example , the flood on the Hwang-Ho river in China in 1887 resulted in an estimated 900 000 deaths while in recent years India has suffered annual average losses of more than 700 people , 40 000 cattle and $90m in property damage . |
| 13 | In recent years Levinas has himself articulated more explicitly his account of the relation of the ethical to the political . |
| 14 | In recent years Winters has interested himself in making objects of glass and ceramics . |
| 15 | In recent years IBM has introduced four-year ' term contracts ' for some graduate entrants , like a commission in the service , to give fine training and work experience to people who will expect to move on at the end . |
| 16 | In recent years BR has been developing techniques for giving each of the business sectors responsibility for part of the network 's infrastructure costs . |
| 17 | While making no claim to be a specialist retailer of classical CDs , in recent years Woolworths performed a great service to collectors as the exclusive distributors of the much-acclaimed Naxos label . |
| 18 | In recent years Piper has begun to paint flower and other verdure around his home in Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | As we have seen , in recent years Persil has found it increasingly difficult to sustain its traditional whiteness claim — which it was allowed to make 30 years ago whether it was true or not . |
| 20 | But in recent years Microvitec has had a chequered history . |
| 21 | In two years Allison had had six miscarriages during the course of five pregnancies but she was still optimistic . |