Example sentences of "in the [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | I do not doubt that over the next 20 years the Community 's evolution will be as marked as it has been in the nearly 20 years since we joined . |
2 | Younger people are on average thirteen times as likely to be assaulted as people in the over 45 years of age category . |
3 | Although occupational pension schemes are increasingly common , levels of payment are often linked to earnings in the most recent years of work . |
4 | It took much restoration , in the remarkably enlightened years in the middle of the last century when conservation took hold in France , to give the cathedral of Lescar its present air of authenticity . |
5 | In the relatively prosperous years of the late nineteenth century Latin American intellectuals were primarily concerned not with the economic progress of their nations , but with their development away from a state of ‘ barbarism ’ to one of ’ civilisation' along European lines . |
6 | The people most affected by AIDS are those in the highly productive years of life . |
7 | In the very early years , people were really exploring ; then came the early botanists who identified what they saw and made lists ; later came the ecologists who related plants to their environment ; by the 1980s conservation of the flora came to the fore . |
8 | Could you give me some idea of what these might be in the very early years perhaps ? |
9 | Could you give me some idea of what these might be in the very early years perhaps ? |
10 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |
11 | Each year the number of working days lost will exceed , by a significant margin , those lost by strikes even in the very worst years of industrial unrest . |
12 | To become a member during that brief period demanded a lower level of commitment than in the more repressive years which preceded and followed it , and intelligenty members were now heavily outnumbered . |
13 | In the more normal years after 1870 annual mortality from disease was about one per cent . |
14 | This remained steady at 25,000 km. in 1920 , but actually dropped in the more prosperous years after 1922 to 23,100 in 1924 . |