Example sentences of "in the [num] years that " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 2 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 3 | The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 , however morally repugnant , did at least provide the USSR with a breathing-space in which military preparations could be accelerated ; the pact , however , was broken off in June 1941 when German forces invaded the USSR 's western borderlands , and in the four years that followed the USSR lost over 26 million citizens and suffered material damage on an unimaginable scale . |
| 4 | Pakistan also have strong support from ex-Test stars from other countries such as Australia 's respected former captain , Richie Benaud , who says : ‘ On the opening day of the final Cornhill Test I was privileged to witness some of the finest swing bowling in the 44 years that I 've been in the game . |
| 5 | I 've never had a contract of employment in the six years that I 've been there but erm less than forty eight hours after all this happened every employee was issued with a contract of employment . |
| 6 | a lot of it is er propaganda by the Conservative if , if they were gon na get it right , why could n't they get it right in the thirteen years that they 've been in power ? |
| 7 | In the fifteen years that I have been giving lectures on sleep and dreaming to many groups of sixth-formers as well as undergraduate students , I have , in fact , only once had a single positive response to this question . |
| 8 | He said this , in the thirty years that have passed since the previous Police Act became law , the old tripartite structure which consisted police authorities , chief constables and the Home Secretary , has provided an effective police service which can still truthfully be described as not only the best in the world , but also the envy of the world . |
| 9 | Will the Secretary of State explain how he was able to commission a review of teaching methods in a matter of a few weeks , although his minimum standards — first laid down in 1981 — were not met in the 10 years that the Government allowed themselves , and the current review will not now report until the autumn ? |
| 10 | In the thirty-two years that have passed since Suez , there have only been four such occasions when the wheel has been put over : |
| 11 | She had been strange at the funeral , and even stranger in the two years that had passed . |
| 12 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 13 | In the nineteen years that I have been in Parliament , I can not think of anyone , save for Enoch Powell , who has been a more powerful advocate of liberal economics than John Biffen . |
| 14 | In actual fact your Pete and Margaret have moved more , in the twelve years that they were married , I know they 've been married longer now , but when , th they been married twelve years and they moved four times , |
| 15 | ‘ They are a breed that will enjoy a long walk and they are excellent car travellers — in the 34 years that I have owned them I have never known one to be car sick , ’ she added . |
| 16 | In the seventy-seven years that divide the publication of Pamela from the death of Jane Austen , houses have a homogeneous being for the novelist . |
| 17 | True to his predictions , the population of Europe and North America did indeed grow dramatically in the 150 years that followed . |
| 18 | The explanation of these apparent omissions seems to lie in the forty years that separate the story , which extends to include the first Reform Bill in 1832 , from the date of its publication shortly after the passing of the second Reform Bill in 1861 . |
| 19 | His words were prophetic , for as I write about it now I realize that it has never been repeated in the thirty-five years that have passed since then . |
| 20 | So much change , in so short a time ; Pete felt as if he 'd aged more in ten weeks than in the ten years that had gone before . |
| 21 | He has found out one thing in the ten years that separate them , if nothing else ; that now is always better than then . |
| 22 | However , this sector of the Environment Services Division has expanded greatly in the ten years that it has been operating |
| 23 | In the twenty-nine years that have passed since Lloyd George 's death , he has continued to stir up furious argument amongst historians and biographers . |
| 24 | In the 23 years that that council has been in existence , it has not complied with the 1968 Act . |
| 25 | In the three years that followed , he at last found personal happiness and intellectual fulfilment , and was swiftly transformed into the brilliantly eloquent young man the greater world was soon to know . |
| 26 | In the three years that followed , the Danzig Nazis became better at governing themselves and at developing strategies to exploit the increasing economic difficulties of the Free City . |
| 27 | Having thus briefly examined the background against which the enormous post-war growth in higher education has taken place , we will now examine in detail those developments which have occurred in the three years that have elapsed since the first edition of this book appeared in 1979 . |
| 28 | In the three years that the revised scheme has now operated the Council has noted that the majority of bodies clearly have been able to submit their applications well within that timescale . |