Example sentences of "in [adj] years [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to face the handicaps of severe diabetes but , true to Greek ideals , she endured them with stoicism ; only on four occasions in 30 years did she break down under these cruel burdens . |
| 2 | Firstly I have never seen a more clearer er grant from the government to actually let you build houses this year , this is whole point of th th this should happen and if we do n't take it up I believe that in future years to come we shall regret it very , very strongly indeed . |
| 3 | The uncertain nature of political alignments in these years made it inevitable , then , that a National Government would come under serious consideration as a remedy for Britain 's ills . |
| 4 | Social status , so quickly achieved , made the family unwilling in later years to acknowledge their very humble origins . |
| 5 | Bates back at Roland Garros for the first time in three years opens his challenge against Ctislav Dosedel of the Czech Republic , a player ranked nine places lower on the world computer at 111 . |
| 6 | " They said they 'd see me in three years to do my D.Phil. at Oxford . |
| 7 | Nine jobs in sixteen years gave me an average of almost two years in each job . |
| 8 | Before she died in June , 1913 , so the story goes , she swore to rise again in 80 years to take her revenge . |
| 9 | The measure allows such companies in those years to apply their mineral depletion allowances to 50% of the value of the finished products rather than to the lower value of raw clay alone . |
| 10 | Changes in the Pakistan Penal Code introduced in recent years make it a criminal offence for Ahmadis to profess , practice and propagate their faith . |
| 11 | Officials said the supply of money remained high relative to economic activity , and that companies that did not speculate excessively in land and shares in recent years had plenty of liquidity . |
| 12 | Over and above such day-to-day management , the Church of England has made substantial efforts in recent years to rationalise its portfolio of buildings . |
| 13 | Only in recent years has it been straightened . |
| 14 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 15 | Electroencephalography , it is true , had its origins in the nineteenth century but only in recent years has there been an acceleration of interest in lateralised electrophysiological phenomena . |
| 16 | Only in recent years has there been a sustained attempt by Marxist thinkers to re-examine in a thoroughgoing fashion the relation between the state , the economy and social classes , or to analyse that historical experience which reveals the emergence of a new type of authoritarian state from the revolutionary process itself or from the centralized control of a socialist economy . |
| 17 | Morrison 's strong showing in recent years reflects its performance as a recession-proof business . |