Example sentences of "years [noun] [unc] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During those 50 years ICI 's acrylic plastics have been used by thousands of customers for tens of thousands of applications and current sales worldwide are of the order of 60,000 tonnes a year . |
| 2 | Within five years Labour 's industrial policies would have wiped out the competitive advantage we have gained in the last decade . |
| 3 | In spite of all the traumas of the last four years Meg 's inner self was too confidently rooted to be prone to that kind of sexual or social self-abasement . |
| 4 | Over the years Hahnemann 's original nosodes have been greatly added to and now there are nosodes prepared from all the infectious diseases . |
| 5 | During these years Japan 's new leaders embarked on a programme of radical reform aimed at transforming Japan into a modern industrialized nation capable of dealing on equal terms with the nations of the West , and throwing off ‘ unequal ’ treaties viewed as a national insult . |
| 6 | For years France 's national event has made forays beyond the country 's frontiers , but the 1992 version is especially international . |
| 7 | In antislavery 's earlier years Wilberforce 's close connection with Pitt has been well documented and his and Stephen 's collaboration with Grenville to bring about the abolition legislation of 1806 and 1807 is established . |