Example sentences of "in [art] [adv] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
| 2 | Younger people are on average thirteen times as likely to be assaulted as people in the over 45 years of age category . |
| 3 | Costs fell in the over 84 year olds . |
| 4 | Although occupational pension schemes are increasingly common , levels of payment are often linked to earnings in the most recent years of work . |
| 5 | The refinery , operating in one of the world 's most competitive markets , in the most difficult year for a decade , gave BP Oil a reasonable profit last year . |
| 6 | It took much restoration , in the remarkably enlightened years in the middle of the last century when conservation took hold in France , to give the cathedral of Lescar its present air of authenticity . |
| 7 | In the relatively prosperous years of the late nineteenth century Latin American intellectuals were primarily concerned not with the economic progress of their nations , but with their development away from a state of ‘ barbarism ’ to one of ’ civilisation' along European lines . |
| 8 | The people most affected by AIDS are those in the highly productive years of life . |
| 9 | In the very early years , people were really exploring ; then came the early botanists who identified what they saw and made lists ; later came the ecologists who related plants to their environment ; by the 1980s conservation of the flora came to the fore . |
| 10 | Could you give me some idea of what these might be in the very early years perhaps ? |
| 11 | Could you give me some idea of what these might be in the very early years perhaps ? |
| 12 | As a school involved in the very first year of the project , School A provides an opportunity to observe a school 's involvement in Stage 3 of the project ; that is to say , the development of INSET provision , the further development of library facilities and curriculum innovation , and other by-products of the project . |
| 13 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
| 14 | Each year the number of working days lost will exceed , by a significant margin , those lost by strikes even in the very worst years of industrial unrest . |
| 15 | The second ( lower left ) was made in the very last year of the reign , AD 14 ; although it is a different type of portrait , it hardly represents Augustus as a man aged seventy-six . |
| 16 | Daisy came to the World Championships with me in Sweden last year and came fourteenth in the under fifteen year old class — a good result for her first competition . |
| 17 | To become a member during that brief period demanded a lower level of commitment than in the more repressive years which preceded and followed it , and intelligenty members were now heavily outnumbered . |
| 18 | In the more normal years after 1870 annual mortality from disease was about one per cent . |
| 19 | This remained steady at 25,000 km. in 1920 , but actually dropped in the more prosperous years after 1922 to 23,100 in 1924 . |
| 20 | In a reasonably good year like 1989 it was between 12 and 13 times greater , fortunately , perhaps , since the Soviet Union was obliged to purchase 40 million tonnes of grain from abroad . |
| 21 | In a very difficult year for the carpet yarn industry , considerable effort was invested in the areas of management , supervision and shift structures , reducing costs , meeting market requirements for faster response and tighter pricing , and increasing overseas sales . |
| 22 | If the agricultural seats are added to the middle-class strongholds , it can be seen why Conservatism was so strong between the wars , for the party could count well over 200 seats as unshakably safe and on 300 as reliable enough to be won except in a very bad year . |
| 23 | ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make the investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive and dangerous halt in a very few years . |
| 24 | Mr Kinnock said : ‘ We are going to start to combat the transport congestion and make investment in communications without which commercial Britain will judder to an expensive halt in a very few years . |
| 25 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 26 | After Munich in a very short year we were at war , and by all accounts it was a very different manner of acceptance of war than we are told of the 1914 war . |
| 27 | Sales and profit growth ( up by 17% and 34% respectively ) remain perfectly respectable on a second and more detailed viewing — indeed , the increase in sales was commendable in a very tough year for trade publishers — even if the operating margin of 6.8% and pretax margin of 1.9% were well below the promise of 10% held out when the company was launched in the optimistic mid-80s . |
| 28 | In an exceptionally dry year ( when straw is already dried out at mowing time ) the corn may be carted without stooking , but normally it should be left in the field for a week or more for the straw to dry and the grain to harden . |
| 29 | In an otherwise mixed year for the British sports car , TVR 's 1992 will go down as a year of achievement and of huge promise for the future . |
| 30 | ‘ The results were much as we had expected in an extremely tough year , ’ said Mr Heath yesterday . |