Example sentences of "in the [adj] years [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( All Munrow 's singers in the early years had experience in cathedrals or Oxbridge chapels . ) |
| 2 | In the main , its teachers in the early years came from London , and the minutes record that they were issued with free tickets weekly . |
| 3 | A loose umbrella reform group , whose members in the early years included both regulationists and their opponents , it embraced an ameliorist approach to social problems , shying away from any attempt to see them as structurally related . |
| 4 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 5 | The popular daily press in the Edwardian years began to give quite a prominent place to sport . |
| 6 | We have seen ( pp. 30–1 , above ) that the vast expansion in the number of such fires in the postwar years had provided consumers with a way of avoiding the consequences of coal rationing , but the effects on the electricity supply system were devastating . |
| 7 | Her life at Remaisnil in the first years had no routine ; she continued to travel regularly around Europe overseeing shops as well as production in Helmond . |
| 8 | Not once in the long years had he attempted to get in touch , to correspond with a daughter he had been all too ready to abandon . |
| 9 | Since he did not exhibit at the big Salons his name may not have been as well known to the general public as those of Matisse and Derain , who in the previous years had emerged as the most important and controversial figures in the Fauve movement , but there were a large number of people who believed in his genius . |
| 10 | Governments were weak , ideological divisions great : in the press apparent pluralism masked what the left termed ‘ a financial oligarchy ’ ; banks and industry and other ‘ forces of capitalism ’ controlled newspapers , including titles that in the inter-war years veered to the right ; press barons diversified into radio — as did their successors , often illegally , a half-century later . |
| 11 | Towns in the pre-Tokugawa years had , except for Kyoto the imperial capital , been fairly small scale . |
| 12 | The persistence of high unemployment in the post-war years continued to make an impact on the institution , particularly on the casual wards . |