Example sentences of "in [adj] years it " in BNC.

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1 The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners .
2 As in previous years it was difficult to monitor the fighting in Cambodia during 1990 , as independent confirmation of conflicting claims was extremely rare .
3 Predominantly a coastal bird , where it can usually been seen in large flocks from now until spring , in recent years it has spread inland to breed .
4 Glass-fibre remains an inexpensive and effective reinforcement material , but in recent years it has been upstaged by Kevlar and carbon fibre , two stronger but more costly materials that owe their high profile largely to their use in formula racing cars .
5 In recent years it has added to the services it provides for the retired to include financial services , retirement homes and magazine publishing .
6 I like big heads that are flat at the back , not pointed , and for that reason in recent years it is Korean males who have attracted me most , with their rich , straight black hair laid perpendicularly on that square-backed skull — always , to me , the sign of a male good at mathematics , the sexiest science .
7 In recent years it has been particularly successful in treating respiratory and urinary tract infections , gastrointestinal infections , infections of the skin and skin structures , bone and joint infections and sexually transmitted diseases .
8 And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match !
9 In recent years it has become fashionable to say that Modi only suffered from poverty because of his drinking and drug-taking .
10 In recent years it has been modified to reduce labour costs and increase profits through the use of machinery , fertilizers , and chemicals .
11 The company at one time had a significant tie to the defence industry , but in recent years it has focused on what it knows best — speciality chemicals .
12 Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements .
13 In recent years it has become more acceptable to distinguish between different types of learning .
14 In recent years it has been the guitar that has been changing most rapidly .
15 It is a Yorkshire dale in a classic sense with sweeping contours and a fierce beauty on the grand scale , although in recent years it has been placed in County Durham ( not that locals pay any attention to such cultural vandalism ) .
16 This is a landmark visible for miles along the coast ; indeed there was a protest from seafarers when in recent years it was feared the spire might need to be dismantled .
17 In recent years it has been found that a high proportion of patients suffering from piles require no further treatment once they have switched to a high-fibre diet and as a result pass soft stools that can be evacuated with minimal straining .
18 But in recent years it has lost its fury .
19 If Japan 's lending had continued to expand at the same pace as in recent years it would have overtaken Britain in 1992 .
20 As has been pointed out , however , In recent years it has been impossible to tell where natural justice stops and fairness begins .
21 It was traditionally associated with Persia and the southern Caucasus , but in recent years it has been incorporated into the repertoire of weaving groups in other rug-making countries .
22 This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated .
23 In recent years it has moved far more towards conceptualization in terms of ‘ theory ’ and ‘ practice ’ , to the extent that in some areas ( e.g. Iocational studies , certain parts of geomorphology ) the theory dominates the practice .
24 Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies .
25 In recent years it has been generally held that the backwash down the beach contributes to the breaking of the next wave , becomes involved in it and is returned with the swash , so that there is no continuous undertow transferring water out beyond the breaker zone .
26 In recent years it has become common , when the whole of the stated authorised share capital is not intended to be issued initially , to designate the unissued shares as ‘ unclassified shares . ’
27 This standard was developed with commercial accounts in mind and it confirms the view that depreciation is a matter of allocation , not of valuation ; though in recent years it has become acceptable to allocate revalued amounts .
28 Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation .
29 In recent years it has begun to experience high levels of adult and youth unemployment .
30 In recent years it has been widely suggested that our prisons are in a ‘ state of crisis ’ , a situation made worse by inadequate means for monitoring what the prisons are doing , and a lack of formal safeguards against bad practices .
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