Example sentences of "in [art] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 2 | Younger people are on average thirteen times as likely to be assaulted as people in the over 45 years of age category . |
| 3 | Although occupational pension schemes are increasingly common , levels of payment are often linked to earnings in the most recent years of work . |
| 4 | It took much restoration , in the remarkably enlightened years in the middle of the last century when conservation took hold in France , to give the cathedral of Lescar its present air of authenticity . |
| 5 | In the relatively prosperous years of the late nineteenth century Latin American intellectuals were primarily concerned not with the economic progress of their nations , but with their development away from a state of ‘ barbarism ’ to one of ’ civilisation' along European lines . |
| 6 | The people most affected by AIDS are those in the highly productive years of life . |
| 7 | In the very early years , people were really exploring ; then came the early botanists who identified what they saw and made lists ; later came the ecologists who related plants to their environment ; by the 1980s conservation of the flora came to the fore . |
| 8 | Could you give me some idea of what these might be in the very early years perhaps ? |
| 9 | Could you give me some idea of what these might be in the very early years perhaps ? |
| 10 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
| 11 | Each year the number of working days lost will exceed , by a significant margin , those lost by strikes even in the very worst years of industrial unrest . |
| 12 | To become a member during that brief period demanded a lower level of commitment than in the more repressive years which preceded and followed it , and intelligenty members were now heavily outnumbered . |
| 13 | In the more normal years after 1870 annual mortality from disease was about one per cent . |
| 14 | This remained steady at 25,000 km. in 1920 , but actually dropped in the more prosperous years after 1922 to 23,100 in 1924 . |
| 15 | ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make the investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive and dangerous halt in a very few years . |
| 16 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive halt in a very few years . |
| 17 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |