Example sentences of "in [adv] [adj] years [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a strange rare way of conserving a Corps : perhaps it was a Pickle , as for Beefe , whose Saltness in so many years the Lead might sweeten and render insipid . |
| 2 | In only five years the Catholic population of the diocese of Dili has increased from 280,000 to 540,000 . |
| 3 | It is submitted that in just four years the Commissioner and her team have succeeded , to a great extent , in ironing out many of the initial difficulties which were encountered . |
| 4 | In more recent years the controversy has died down a little , although it has still not ceased . |
| 5 | In more recent years the LBA was supplemented by a separate association representing the interests of Labour-controlled boroughs . |
| 6 | In more recent years the resistances have often adopted more explicitly political forms as sex-reform organisations or as sexual liberation movements . |
| 7 | In relatively recent years the Court of Appeal had emphasised the dangers of ‘ instant justice , ’ stressing the need for reflection and to consider whether the alleged contemnor would benefit from legal advice . |