Example sentences of "in [adj] years [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 2 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 3 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 4 | In recounting my coming out story in later years I have always sited this period of my life as extremely important to my subsequent emergence as a lesbian . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs . |
| 7 | We want to swap our nice , two-bedroom bungalow near the Essex coast for somewhere nearer Herts or Sussex yet in three years there has n't been a decent inquiry . |
| 8 | But they worked out in three years she 's put on seven stone because she eats . |
| 9 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
| 10 | But on the other hand I get $1000 a month tax free for five months every year , and so far in three years I have n't touched a cent of the money . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So in a sense , in 80 years nothing has changed — yet clearly everything has . |
| 13 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 14 | In twenty-five years he had not been ‘ ten times in a tavern , eight times in a coffee house ’ . |
| 15 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 16 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 17 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 18 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 19 | I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off . |
| 20 | In five years he had turned a struggling side into formidable Championship contenders capable of springing surprises on League giants in the Cup . |
| 21 | In postwar years there has been a tendency for MPs to be even more middle-class than they were hitherto . |
| 22 | In nine years he has brought the Labour Party back from the dead to the brink of power . |
| 23 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 24 | ‘ In 15 years I 've never been injured . |
| 25 | In other years she had displayed appropriate sympathy about sports day . |
| 26 | At the start of the negotiations the ACP countries called for a wide-ranging revision of the convention to take account of developments in recent years which had adversely affected their economies , in particular rising debt ( currently estimated at USdollars 200,000 million for the sub-Saharan countries alone ) and falling commodity prices . |
| 27 | It has been the site of a number of archaeological explorations in recent years which have yielded valuable information about earlier settlements , with discoveries of bronze spears , remains of chariots , and graves of several warriors . |
| 28 | There has , however , been a change of climate in recent years which has been a result of the pressures for accountability spelt out in Chapter 1 . |
| 29 | For example The Sunday Times has asserted that , ‘ In recent years we 've experienced a new , aggressive , liberated criminality in women ’ ( 30 March , 1980 ) . |
| 30 | Now , er , before I hand over to Frank er , a word about the dividend er , in recent years we 've paid an interim dividend which was half the total of the previous year 's dividends and so , er , had a built-in increase . |