Example sentences of "in [adj] years [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
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 succeeding years they continued to expand while others , attracted by their success , also produced iron in the district . |
5 | In postwar years there has been a tendency for MPs to be even more middle-class than they were hitherto . |
6 | In other years she had displayed appropriate sympathy about sports day . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Gorbachev disclosed that " for the first time in recent years we laid quite a strong stress on what our economic relations should be like " , although he failed to provide details on the precise content of the talks . |
11 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
12 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
13 | For example The Sunday Times has asserted that , ‘ In recent years we 've experienced a new , aggressive , liberated criminality in women ’ ( 30 March , 1980 ) . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Before looking at the way in which the sector has changed in recent years we examine the role of the Bank of England . |
16 | Because there 's been a dramatic increase in traffic in recent years we need to assess the impact on the river 's special environment . |
17 | And in the 70s , we were again working in Appalachia ; and in recent years we have expanded our program to again include the entire south . ’ |
18 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
19 | In recent years we have seen great efforts being made at all levels to ensure that children learn effectively . |
20 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
21 | Nevertheless , in recent years we have been moving , albeit slowly and hesitantly , towards the view that the primary school should regard itself as one element in a united national service to children . |
22 | In recent years we have learned much about the internal anatomy of cephalapsids and galeaspids which had a bony skeleton surrounding the brain and gills . |
23 | In recent years we have seen the most thorough pursuit ever carried out to find partners in responsibility for the ailments to which we are subject . |
24 | In recent years we have devoted substantial resources to reorganising our education systems in the UK and we see this continuing . |
25 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
26 | My bill falls into two parts , one which deals with the need for a full franchise it is sometimes mistakenly believed that we already have a full franchise in this country , but whereas legislation was passed in the past in order to extend the franchise , in recent years we have let matters slip considerably on the methods that are used for registration and no longer can we claim to have that full franchise . |
27 | In recent years we have seen a tremendous growth in interest and the range of activities , ’ said Mr Deighton , whose wife Maura was also a founder . |
28 | In recent years they 've all got the real ale kick and always have too many pumps , which means that the throughput is slow and four out of five beers go off before they 're half sold . |
29 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
30 | In recent years they have fallen back . |