Example sentences of "in [adj] years [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In eight years he built his television services company , Carlton Communications , to a value of £1 billion . |
| 2 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 3 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 4 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |
| 5 | In these years he published on American history and established his own private press , the Guyon House Press , which , however , came to an end in the air raids of December 1940 . |
| 6 | In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson . |
| 7 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 8 | This was one cause of the severe financial problems of the railways in later years which led to increasing state intervention even before nationalization . |
| 9 | But in later years they got a gig and it was far easier on the pony you see with a big heavy man riding a pony is awful tiresome on the pony you see . |
| 10 | In later years we borrowed Blossom , a big Clydesdale-type mare , from John Sayer at West New Houses , and eventually we bought her . |
| 11 | The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was . |
| 12 | In later years she suffered badly from varicose veins on her legs , which contributed to her death at the age of 82 . |
| 13 | In later years she suffered very badly from arthritis . |
| 14 | In later years she suffered severely from asthma . |
| 15 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 16 | In later years she went to Leeds and married a minister . |
| 17 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 18 | In later years he drifted away from his original Liberalism and his later Labour ties , and in 1910–11 served as a Conservative nominee as alderman on the London county council . |
| 19 | In later years he thought that twice in his life , and twice only , he seriously wondered whether Frank was right , and he wrong , about religion . |
| 20 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
| 21 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 22 | In later years he turned to golf and became one of the most successful amateur players in the history of the sport in Canada . |
| 23 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |
| 24 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |
| 25 | In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs . |
| 26 | And if in three years you decided the performance was less than adequate , it would be worth you losing two percent to come out . |
| 27 | In succeeding years they continued to expand while others , attracted by their success , also produced iron in the district . |
| 28 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 29 | In all years they included a series of national newspapers ; the Daily Mirror , The Times the News of the World the Sunday People and one local , the London Evening Standard . |
| 30 | The main political event of the year to June 1991 was the general election in March , in which the opposition KESK gained the largest number of seats ( 55 out of 200 ) and went on to form the first Finnish government in 25 years which did not include a left-wing party . |