Example sentences of "in [adj] years [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 2 | In other years she had displayed appropriate sympathy about sports day . |
| 3 | In recent years he had often carried cameras with any number of attachments . |
| 4 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 5 | In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly . |