Example sentences of "the [adj] years it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the intervening years it is estimated that 111 died while trying to escape and a further 77 lost their lives on the Berlin Wall itself , with most of these deaths occurring in the 1960s . |
| 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 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 4 | Pentagon hardliners , who have opposed a chemical weapons ban on the grounds that it could not be verified adequately , suggested the idea of seeking continued production of the new ‘ binary ’ weapons during the 10 years it would take to eliminate all arsenals . |
| 5 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 6 | One is brought back to the fundamental conclusion that throughout the Primary years it is the children 's activity that is the key to full development . |
| 7 | During the many years it was to remain at Scampton R5868 was maintained and also given the occasional coat of paint . |
| 8 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 9 | The overall cost of the project over the ten years it will run is estimated to be in the region of £1.9 million , and an appeal for sponsorship by commercial sources and private individuals is to be launched early in 1993 . |
| 10 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 11 | And although the dominant enterprises in this sense have undoubtedly grown considerably in size , by any measure , over the post-war years it is not obvious that the operating units have grown in the same way . |
| 12 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 13 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 14 | John , one of the PPLs at our flying club , had made a beautiful job of building his little Jodel and I had followed his progress closely over the several years it had taken him to complete it . |
| 15 | Carroll House was the second Italian-owned winner of the Arc in the two years it has been sponsored by the Italian hotel chain Ciga . |
| 16 | Of course , the hundred years is only just up for Darwin and not yet up for Freud , depending on when you start the hundred years it makes a . |
| 17 | in the million years it has been taking |
| 18 | The interior of Mr Broadhurst 's caravan had remained unchanged during the four years it had been sited at Cliff Top . |
| 19 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |