Example sentences of "and in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 31 | Under existing arrangements oil revenues were simply added to government revenue , and in recent years concern had grown among all political parties that the oil boom had led to wasteful investment . |
| 32 | And in recent years they 've played a growing role in encouraging the public to recycle their rubbish . |
| 33 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 34 | It deals with major negotiating items that have not been settled at the RSJC and in recent years has been the forum in which the unions present their annual pay claims . |
| 35 | Since 1948 , there have been over 90 ‘ decisions ’ of the tribunal on questions such as annual pay claims , the length of the working week , bonus schemes and payments , and in recent years , changes in working practices . |
| 36 | I 've worked with children in various settings , mainly in secondary school , and in recent years I 've worked with students , so when I try to make that sort of categorization I find it very difficult . |
| 37 | International availability of lines is increasingly widespread , and in two years ' time ISDN will become the standard business line offering from BT . |
| 38 | Cost us two thousand nine hundred , and in two years , we 've only paid , eight hundred , nine hundred |
| 39 | The form of the autumn statement makes that debate more difficult , and in 13 years the Government have done little or nothing to improve it . |
| 40 | Public sector wages were squeezed tighter still , and in four years fell 9 per cent behind the private sector . |
| 41 | And in 500 years , when the distinction between twentieth-century decades will have become a mere specialist detail ( as is the distinction , for most of us , between the 1840s and the 1850s ) ? |
| 42 | He sailed for Bombay in 1818 and in succeeding years travelled between Bombay and Canton , as supercargo on the Sarah , of which he was co-owner . |
| 43 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 44 | It seems unlikely that these three diseases attack with equal intensity in all seasons and in all years . |
| 45 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 46 | During his highly successful playing days at Liverpool — five Championships , three European Cups and four League Cups — Mr Souness never managed to appear in an FA Cup Final , and in five years as Rangers manager he was unable to add the Scottish Cup to the seven other domestic trophies he secured . |
| 47 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
| 48 | Now they are beginning to soak up thousands of unwanted male lambs off Scottish hill farms and in five years are expected to be soaking up even more . |
| 49 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 50 | The lesson was learned , and in subsequent years a photocall has been organized for the first day , when the Prince and Princess pose sweetly for the cameras on the understanding that thereafter the media will go home so the two can holiday in peace . |
| 51 | Many of the nationalists abandoned the hopes of a popular movement , and in subsequent years came to rely upon forces other than popular struggle : Bismarck and the rulers of Prussia , and the House of Savoy . |
| 52 | Disorder was again evident in 1982 and in subsequent years , although on a reduced scale ( Benyon and Solomos , 1987 ) . |
| 53 | They were described at the time as an attempt at ‘ counter-revolution ’ , and in subsequent years many thousands of Albanians have been arrested and punished . |
| 54 | Students take three subjects in the first year and in subsequent years continue with two of these subjects either as joint or major/minor options for the honours degree . |
| 55 | He created the Holy Alliance of Christian monarchs dedicated to peace and upholding the existing order , and in subsequent years urged Great Power intervention against national revolutions in Spain , piedmont , Naples and , with less conviction , Orthodox Greece . |
| 56 | If a family is not using planning , in a year they have one child and in ten years , how many ? |
| 57 | ‘ You look as old as one now ; and anyway , do n't be daft , woman , Susan 's only seven and in ten years ’ time you 'll be in a wheelchair . ’ |
| 58 | And so that the village benefits from the wood in some way , erm like there 's a teak plantation they 've got going at the moment , and in ten years time , the teak will be used to carry electricity , so that the village can have some electricity as well , I mean it 's to do with giving the village something as well as trying to help the environment . |
| 59 | Millions of men had been butchered during the first World War , and in post-war years , the ratio of births , as I understand it , was four to one in favour of baby girls . |
| 60 | Arthritic and near blind , he found he was also suffering from cancer and in human years would have been aged around 90 . |