Example sentences of "in the [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet another new style was created when Nonconformist buildings adapted the designs of the public buildings which arose in the final years of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | There is a danger , particularly in the final years of compulsory schooling , that little time is given to promoting reading for fun . |
| 3 | People are living longer , and costing the state more in the final years of their lives . |
| 4 | This will be particularly true in the final years of school and in the initial preparation of an individual transition plan . |
| 5 | The tendency for international capital flows to increase has been evident for some time , and was causing problems for central bank intervention in the final years of the Bretton Woods system . |
| 6 | A more effective matching of workers and jobs constitutes one of the major challenges facing central government in the final years of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Essentially , occupational pension schemes are designed — by men with male ‘ family wage-earners ’ and male middle-class career patterns in mind , so not only do they exclude the majority of part-time workers , but they tend to assume that earnings peak in the final years of working life , which is much less often the case for women than for men . |
| 8 | In the final years of his life Hervey achieved high office in the church . |
| 9 | Above all , we will try to address the significance of multimedia in a general sense and assess its likely impact on the way in which we may be using information in the final years of the century . |
| 10 | There was a great intensification of the partisan use of the festive calendar in the final years of Anne 's reign . |
| 11 | In the sixteen years since , it has sold 75,000 copies , and people are still finding it helpful , and I myself often take a chapter for meditation , when my own spirit feels low and dry . |
| 12 | The monk Ippen ( 1239 to 1289 ) travelled all over Japan in the sixteen years before his death , and his journeys , his life and ideas ( he was also the founder of an Amida-Buddhist school ) were documented by one of his brothers in the twelve illustrated scrolls completed in 1299 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So far had music come in the sixteen years since Palestrina 's death . |
| 15 | In the 80 years since the aeroplane first appeared in the county , it has brought a great deal of pleasure and prosperity . |
| 16 | In the post-Bullock years , thinking about writing at secondary level in particular has been dominated by the model developed by Britton and his colleagues at the London Institute for the Schools Council . |
| 17 | The early primitive phase of frame shacks and converted buildings was followed by the appearance of rather grander stations in the post-confederation years of the 1870s and 1880s . |
| 18 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 19 | It claims that in the five years to the end of 1988 Pearl 's new annual premium business rose by an average of 3.7 per cent a year against a UK market average of 13 per cent a year . |
| 20 | In the five years 1934 — 8 an average total of 335,000 houses was built each year in Great Britain . |
| 21 | In the five years up to the end of April , 1950 , the post-war housing programme had provided 686,018 permanent houses and flats in Great Britain . |
| 22 | In the five years after 1928 , the Criterion printed little anthropological writing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | BR investment is forecast at £5 billion in the five years to March 1994 , about double the rate of the past five years . |
| 25 | The recent excesses of the financial world inevitably invite comparisons with the 1930s , when share prices fell by two-thirds in the five years following the Great Crash of 1929 . |
| 26 | Comparing trends in cuts of meat for 1985 to 1990 with the changes in the five years before , the price of expensive beef cuts rose more than the cheaper cuts , reversing the trend of the early 1980s . |
| 27 | In the five years since , he has been world champion three times , but the British Open has eluded him . |
| 28 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 29 | For example , in the five years from 1981 to 1986 , 1 76 Albanian teachers , 11 Albanian professors , and 511 Albanian students were expelled from schools or universities in Kosovo , and 1,600 Albanians were expelled from the Party ( Danas , 11 February 1986 ) . |
| 30 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |