Example sentences of "in its [adj] years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Daily Mail sold well over 200,000 copies daily in its first years and reached half-a-million sales after three years . |
| 2 | The most important English writer of the seventeenth century on international law still thought in its middle years that " the reception of ambassadors further requires that hospitality should be provided befitting their rank , and necessaries supplied to them " , and practice varied considerably between different states . |
| 3 | But tomorrow the British Olympic Association holds its annual meeting in Manchester , the first time in its 85 years that the meeting has taken place outside London , and the reason is that Scott asked . |
| 4 | This may have held great promise in its early years but it soon became divided and then fragmented , due largely , if not wholly to the same age-old misconception whereby the basis of the religion is the assumption of the existence of a completely undefined ‘ god ’ , in this case the ancient ‘ god ’ of the Jews . |
| 5 | ‘ In fact , the club 's most successful time was in its early years and we 'd like to re-create that . |
| 6 | Your Committee has purchased an ex G.W.R. coach which some people believe to have run on the BCR in its last years before it went out of use . |
| 7 | Repayment in full of Romania 's foreign debt , which had peaked in the early 1980s at more than US$11,000 million , had been a priority of the Ceausescu regime in its last years and had been accomplished by April 1989 [ see p. 36622 ] . |