Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] years it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 2 | In the early post-war years it was difficult even to stay alive , with low rations , a fuel shortage and an economy which worked by barter in the absence of a stable currency . |
| 3 | In the following ten years it rose to 80,000 . |
| 4 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 5 | When the BMJ , in its special commemorative number for the Queen 's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 , reviewed the development of the profession over the previous sixty years it was this aspect that it chose to trumpet . |
| 6 | In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours . |
| 7 | However , other firms operating similar machines have found that after the first three years it becomes increasingly more costly in terms of repairs and maintenance to keep machinery of this type productive . |
| 8 | For the past 100 years it has ejected more than 1,000 tonnes of chlorine into the atmosphere every day . |
| 9 | In the past two years it has become much harder in America to use the private method of dealing with distress . |
| 10 | In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 . |
| 11 | For the past two years it has allowed our PCs and Macintoshes to share data in a wide range of formats without any hassle at all . |
| 12 | After all , if anyone has flourished in the past 13 years it has been the supermarkets . |
| 13 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 14 | Over the past eight years it has halved in size ( from 6500 staff in 30 institutes ) and simultaneously it has changed its entire research strategy . |
| 15 | But now the solar influence is beginning to turn around to contribute a further warming influence up to the year 2010 , boosting the greenhouse effect where for the past 30 years it has been counterbalancing it . |
| 16 | In the past few years it has suffered from serious errors in planning and a lack of investment . |
| 17 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 18 | Over the past few years it has become increasingly evident that the UK is witnessing a transformation in dominant household forms . |
| 19 | In the past few years it has become clear that the small intestine is also damaged by NSAIDs . |
| 20 | ‘ Over the past few years it 's been your petal frilly or your heart-shaped frilly . |
| 21 | Over the past three years it has received 11 visits from the Sudbury-based charity group Christian Cargo . |
| 22 | A new one is made every year and for the past 25 years it 's been engraved at the same Birmingham workshop . |
| 23 | Rather , over the past twenty years it has created discrete areas of fashion which do not automatically seek to emulate or follow one another . |
| 24 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
| 25 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |
| 26 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 27 | British Gas said that over the last 10 years it has lost about 2,000 workers a year with the switch to natural gas . |
| 28 | And really the slate industry I think probably hinges on quality being maintained you know I mean li like I said I do n't want to go in you know I 'm no expert on this sort of thing but erm A deep sense of of injustice I think is that and , oh my God if if we let him start making us just you know like robots produce more and more slate and laying off some of the older craftsmen and you know they do and David Price who knows and I mean th they put that and and then they the last fifteen years it was a it was a defunct slate quarry before you know and they I mean it 's not as i it 's not an easy thing to er work slate I 'm sure it 's d difficult and you have to know what you 're doing . |
| 29 | But field staff fear that this might not be appreciated in head-quarters where senior officials might be unfamiliar with their routine strategies : ‘ One can say that because you have n't taken any stats in the last two years it 's because you 're a good lad , and people who you may have to take stats upon know that you 're around a lot , and they know that if they 're naughty it 's a two-edged thing , you can look at it two ways . ’ |
| 30 | I mean over the last two years it 's been shock horror headlines , you know , will endowments fail to repay the loan , are endowments good value and I ke some of the journalists I 've read bef over the last two years have actually completely reversed what they said t two years ago when P E Ps were declining because of poor share markets and bonuses were coming through quite nicely on the endowments , they said oh endowments are the thing to do . |