Example sentences of "in [adv] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In only six years it has become a significant nature reserve in its own right . |
| 2 | In more recent years he has shown how he despises the movie industry by making only rare fleeting appearances . |
| 3 | This was , admittedly , the rather indeterminate ‘ walking speed ’ , though in more recent years it has been followed by widespread adoption of 30 km/h limits , especially in Germany . |
| 4 | It is normally defined as the intra-urban movement of population from the inner to the outer parts of the same urban region , but in more recent years it has become inextricably bound up with the patterns of inter-urban redistribution associated with the urban-rural shift . |
| 5 | Britain 's first world heavyweight champion in nearly 100 years he could be stripped of his title almost immediately . |
| 6 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 7 | And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it . |