Example sentences of "in [adj] years and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully as we improve our business , we may indeed see TV advertising in future years and we hope that we will become as well known as IBM , 3M or ICI . ’ |
| 2 | This was the Finaghy lads first fight at home in six years and you could almost feel seismic waves of anticipation as he came to the ringside . |
| 3 | It 's also the first major re-design of the spreadsheet in 10 years and it 's a vast improvement . |
| 4 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |
| 5 | The cards are now larger than in previous years and we have found that this size proved very popular . |
| 6 | We would also like to record our thanks to the many people who have covenanted in previous years and whose names have appeared in earlier Reports . |
| 7 | Jeff added : ‘ BNFL people from several sites have collected food and clothing for us to take out in previous years and I would be grateful if people could help again . |
| 8 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 9 | This has meant a fall in the demand for residential care which had been increasing rapidly in previous years and it is the duty of the relevant authorities to plan future provision er so that everything will work smoothly for those most in need . |
| 10 | It gives the impression we 're prepared to spend the money and that 's what 's happened in previous years and it should n't happen . |
| 11 | My mother got it wrong when I was six , but her mistake did serve to galvanise me in later years and I became a successful businesswoman , outwardly independent and self-sufficient . |
| 12 | Complaints to the BR watchdog have now doubled in five years and there 's little hope of things improving . |
| 13 | ‘ We are the first England representative team to face the Springboks in 23 years and we must make it a memorable day , one the selectors can not ignore . ’ |
| 14 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 15 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 16 | Caro 's widowed mother had remarried only in recent years and her new husband already had four children , all grown up and living away from home . |
| 17 | In this programme we are going to look at the way in which British music has developed in recent years and its relationship to that produced by Continental Europe . |
| 18 | Generally , however , discipline has not been a problem between them in recent years and there have been some pulsating contests . |
| 19 | THE Law and its administration have seen changes in recent years and there are more to come . |
| 20 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 21 | We have published reviews of a fair number of headphones in recent years and there is ample evidence that this uniquely personal and involving method of listening to music remains very popular . |
| 22 | The very idea of the ‘ comprador bourgeoisie , ’ central to the dependency approach , appears to have fallen into disuse in recent years and there have been various attempts to reconceptualize what it refers to . |
| 23 | Perhaps those advising Mr Lamont consider the objective has been achieved by the high drilling success rates in recent years and there are enough oil and gas finds to sustain development work for the immediate future . |
| 24 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 25 | The retired docker 's health has suffered in recent years and he has trouble getting up the stairs at their maisonette . |
| 26 | However , a great deal has been achieved in recent years and I shall always be proud of the Department and more importantly its employees . |
| 27 | That has improved in recent years and I congratulate the local authority and the local schools and colleges on that . |
| 28 | Men have got a bad press in recent years and I think it 's important that women should feel safe and secure with the new contacts they make . |
| 29 | The number of non-party political members of principal councils has declined steadily in recent years and it is usual in the large towns and cities for the authority to be governed by one or more of the political parties acting on a group basis . |
| 30 | Add to this the rapid growth in the numbers of expeditions , climbers and trekkers which has occurred in recent years and it is not surprising that the problem has reached massive proportions despite the availability of new access sites from Tibet which was opened to climbers in 1980 . |