Example sentences of "but in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 2 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In fact public expenditure fell to as low as 39% of GDP in 1988/89 , but in the recessionary years of the early 1990s the percentage has started to rise once again . |
| 5 | But in the early years of his editorship he had also wanted to achieve something quite different from other contemporary periodicals — he was trying to express , if not create , a genuinely European consciousness which would subvert the characteristically insular nature of English cultural life . |
| 6 | The school had a capacity to accept 625 boys but in the relevant years the school was not full to capacity . |
| 7 | But in the first years of the twentieth century the scale of such efforts sharply increased . |
| 8 | This was a formidable programme for a king whose father had been defeated and captured by the English only eight years earlier , and who had agreed to a treaty which conceded a Greater Aquitaine in full sovereignty to Edward III ; but in the sixteen years of his reign Charles achieved each one of these objects except the last , and even though he did not attack and destroy England , French and Castilian naval raids along the south coast induced a sense of panic and defensiveness unknown in England since the very earliest months of the war . |
| 9 | But in the golden years institutionalized pay bargaining constituted one of the transmission mechanisms through which the requirements of accumulation , and the competitive struggles bred by them , generated the necessary real wage increases . |
| 10 | Such an idea led to isolated fragmentation of the forest , but in the 10 years up to 1977 over 11000 km of roads were built and settlers moved in . |
| 11 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |