Example sentences of "in [adj] years he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 2 | In recent years he has set himself up as a crusader for higher press and broadcasting standards , regularly harking back to the golden days of his journalistic apprenticeship in Yorkshire , where every fact was triple-checked and every speculation ruthlessly suppressed in the Hebden Bridge Times . |
| 3 | But in recent years he has spent £50,000 of his own money and much time on charitable causes . |
| 4 | In recent years he has been closely associated with Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts Ltd in Bond Street where his knowledge and connoisseurship are greatly valued and he is still to be found on weekdays in the gallery 's offices . |
| 5 | In recent years he has become increasingly involved in the conservation of neotropical mammals , and now has a deep involvement in research studies in Peru and Ecuador of the mountain tapir , ocelot and giant otter . |
| 6 | In recent years he had often carried cameras with any number of attachments . |
| 7 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 8 | In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly . |
| 9 | Sure , he 's made some mistakes , but after everything he 's done for us in recent years he must be allowed the odd cock-up . |
| 10 | In recent years he played a number of Shakespearean roles on stage , having earned enough from comedy to become a serious actor . |
| 11 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |
| 12 | In recent years he has coached many leading Midlands runners , including three times Olympian Lorraine Baker . |
| 13 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |