Example sentences of "in [adj] years he [verb] " 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 recent years he played a number of Shakespearean roles on stage , having earned enough from comedy to become a serious actor . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 7 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 8 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 9 | In recent years he has been closely associated with Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts Ltd in Bond Street where his knowledge and connoisseurship are greatly valued and he is still to be found on weekdays in the gallery 's offices . |
| 10 | In recent years he has become increasingly involved in the conservation of neotropical mammals , and now has a deep involvement in research studies in Peru and Ecuador of the mountain tapir , ocelot and giant otter . |
| 11 | In recent years he has coached many leading Midlands runners , including three times Olympian Lorraine Baker . |