Example sentences of "in [adj] years [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's the third time in 2 years his house has been raided and the second in the space of a week . |
| 2 | In previous years her job has been filled by a preregistration house officer . |
| 3 | In the spring the regional heats were held and as in previous years our expert judges were pleased by the excellent standards . |
| 4 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |
| 5 | In twenty-five years his tally reached 400 . |
| 6 | If he had not returned in twenty years his son , Don Benedetto , should inherit his lands and administer his fortune in the normal way . |
| 7 | But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations . |
| 8 | In recent years his ideas have been heavily criticised , and I would guess that his writings do not have great influence on young teachers of English . |
| 9 | It has been said that in recent years his allegiance shifted from Sisley to Monet ! ’ |
| 10 | Despite my obvious interest in the city , in recent years my search has taken me away from a preoccupation with subjects to a greater preoccupation with aesthetics . |
| 11 | Despite my obvious interest in the city , in recent years my search has taken me away from a preoccupation with subjects to a greater preoccupation with aesthetics . |
| 12 | There is no good reason why Britain should not have emulated the achievements of the Scandinavian countries who , profoundly influenced by their social democratic tradition , have set standards which in recent years our country has fallen well below . |
| 13 | His pronouncement that ‘ when your application is not done in two years its running at zero MIPS no matter what hardware is running on your desk ’ was greeted by cheers from the audience . |
| 14 | But Sweden has also promised that in 20 years its emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) , the main greenhouse gas , will have dropped to 1986 levels . |