Example sentences of "in [adj] years [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two state-commissioned reports , described by Yeltsin in his Oct. 6 speech to the Supreme Soviet as the first in 70 years to contain " nothing but the truth " about the nation 's health and the state of the environment , were unveiled at a press conference on Oct. 7 . |
| 2 | His predecessors had farmed these revenues for less than £50 a year , and in some years failed to make any payment at all . |
| 3 | BOYZ II MEN 's ‘ End Of The Road ’ has become only the third single in 30 years to spend more than ten weeks at the top of the Billboard chart . |
| 4 | She had to face the handicaps of severe diabetes but , true to Greek ideals , she endured them with stoicism ; only on four occasions in 30 years did she break down under these cruel burdens . |
| 5 | Firstly I have never seen a more clearer er grant from the government to actually let you build houses this year , this is whole point of th th this should happen and if we do n't take it up I believe that in future years to come we shall regret it very , very strongly indeed . |
| 6 | Capital development was a dominant feature in budgets because of the assumption that , for example , in the case of a swimming pool , the revenue expenditure would be available in future years to heat and staff the pool . |
| 7 | With a resurgence of technology , it will be unnecessary in future years to seek artificial academic support for the discipline ; instead the study of construction technology , construction method , design and materials and construction management should be allowed to form the core with the relevant contribution of legal and financial ( rather than economic ) subjects directed towards it . |
| 8 | If there are , it may be possible in future years to identify potential sufferers from addictive disease through a simple blood test . |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | Monique Javer pulled off a rare victory on grass only her third in six years beating Marianne Werdel 6–4 7–5 . |
| 11 | Precipitation changes showed only a slight ( 1–2 per cent ) overall increase in warm years compared with cool ones . |
| 12 | Martine Le Moignan , the England No 1 , reached the semi-finals for the ninth time in 10 years beating Australian Liz Irving.In the men 's event , Australia 's Rodney Martin and Jansher Khan , the top seed , qualified to meet in the semi-finals . |
| 13 | I was delighted to learn recently that Arcam has announced that it will be the first British company in 10 years to make a cassette deck here in the United Kingdom . |
| 14 | The Imperial Cancer Research Fund , which in 10 years has opened 464 shops , has its own ‘ fashion guru ’ . |
| 15 | This is a comment not just on poetic style , but on the substance of the political alternative that Tate and some fellow Southerners were in these years trying to put together , to challenge the industrial capitalism of the restored Union . |
| 16 | Tyndall did not in these years hold forth on glaciers at the RI , but on 13 May 1870 Canon Henry Moseley ( father of an eminent zoologist , and grandfather of an eminent physicist ) gave a Discourse on the descent of glaciers . |
| 17 | The uncertain nature of political alignments in these years made it inevitable , then , that a National Government would come under serious consideration as a remedy for Britain 's ills . |
| 18 | All pupils in these years follow a general familiarisation course in computer applications timetabled for one period each week . |
| 19 | But at no point in these years did the Armed Forces take the initiative in resolving political disputes and at no stage was it brought into intrigue by discontented Party factions ( exempting , of course , the First Secretary himself ) . |
| 20 | The part played by the nobility in the debates about taxation in these years has never been satisfactorily analysed , but it appears that the initiative lay almost entirely with the commons . |
| 21 | The diaries and memoirs of those who worked closely with de Gaulle in these years give the impression that his gradual disengagement from the RPF ( which began in 1951 and was not complete until 1954 ) was not only more protracted but also more painful than his disengagement from the provisional government in January 1946 . |
| 22 | Alfonso II , himself a troubadour and patron of troubadours , was in these years bidding fair to become " Emperor of the Pyrenees " . |
| 23 | A survey by the National Association of Head Teachers conducted in 1987 found that half of the schools questioned were using voluntary funds to supplement their spending on materials and equipment which in previous years had been provided entirely out of local authority funds . |
| 24 | Many of the initiatives laboured over in previous years have come to fruition and a host of new ventures has sprung up , bringing fresh opportunities and challenges . |
| 25 | Mr Fallon was told some forces in previous years have not been able to take up the extra posts , which have then been redistributed to other places . |
| 26 | As in previous years spending on social security represented the biggest item of expenditure . |
| 27 | Mr Reg Watson , CHC chief officer , said answers given in previous years included the fact that in-service training was given to nurses . |
| 28 | Social status , so quickly achieved , made the family unwilling in later years to acknowledge their very humble origins . |
| 29 | In later years Bate also rented a house in Hampstead where he died 27 December 1847 . |
| 30 | Belzebub was owned by Mr Olavi Pasanen and his wife Maria , who in later years bred many well-known dogs under the Heidenmoor prefix . |