Example sentences of "in [adj] years [pron] [be] " in BNC.

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1 No more than nine have been recorded in one winter , however , and in some years none is seen .
2 However , between 1962 and 1976 breeding was only proved five times , although other breeding season records suggested a population of up to seven pairs ; in some years none was found .
3 And there 's also something else that I forgot to bring up and that is that they 're trying to find new ways of removing the gases , and they reckoned that in 2 years there 's going to be an electrical method , an electrical filter , and the lab is 99% efficient .
4 this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in …
5 In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate .
6 In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament .
7 As in previous years it was difficult to monitor the fighting in Cambodia during 1990 , as independent confirmation of conflicting claims was extremely rare .
8 In later years they were edited by Africans , though European officials in the public Relations Department always had the final say .
9 His mother , Queen Taj ol Molok , appeared different — tiny and delicate , But she was equally fierce and unbending ; in later years she was frequently described as a harridan She was not easily appeased when , after the birth of the twins , Reza Shah took more wives , with whom he had six more children .
10 In later years it was fed by a banded iron pipe still in place .
11 So er when I was , I was on the county council I was on the welfare committee and er in later years I was on the planning committee .
12 Though dogged by ill health in later years he was still able to work in his particularly single-minded way , largely because of the devotion of his wife Mitzi whom he met during the war , while serving with the Royal Engineers .
13 In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family .
14 In three years they are full and have to be emptied and washed out .
15 In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques .
16 For the first time in many years there is hope that by means of the NHS and Community Care Act of 1990 , imperfect and incomplete though it may be , the fundamental organizational and financial changes needed to foster good community care have been made .
17 In many years there were several .
18 At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation .
19 In post-war years there was only a nine-minute service of Marton cars during the summer season , until it closed in 1961 .
20 In those years it is the sudden traumatic experience which may be the spark to engage fierce enthusiasms in their educational development .
21 Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois .
22 ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself .
23 In those years he was working hard on his Bovary ( though not , perhaps , as hard as he liked to maintain ) and at the end of the day , since a physical release was too complicated for him and would contain too many things he could n't entirely command , he sought an intellectual release .
24 One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech .
25 The public corporations — and especially the capital-intensive Electricity Boards — had , it is true , underpinned the sustained high level of both private and public investment spending in postwar years which was one option in a Keynesian strategy for the avoidance of slump and the maintenance of full employment .
26 The preceding section has emphasised the day-to-day actions in the money market , but it is also useful at this stage to look at the aggregate position in recent years which is shown in Table 6.2 .
27 There has been one fatal accident on the crossing in recent years which was the tragic death of a young baby .
28 In recent years she 's suffered two heart attacks and been treated for cancer and she says she ca n't stand much more of the strain .
29 Throughout her life she was a regular worshipper at Llanfwrog Parish Church , even though in recent years she was largely confined to her home .
30 The Report concluded : ‘ Moreover in recent years there was a substantial increase in Argentina 's military strengths in all three of its armed services , which must have increased its confidence in its ability to occupy the Islands and retain them . ’
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