Example sentences of "in [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fifty years from then began the great wave of late Victorian building , which has so altered the appearance of places like Ambleside , especially if one compares old Church Street or the Market Place in Green 's time , to 1860 , and with what it has become today . |
| 2 | Supplied in normal years by the South and the East , it extended to the North and even to Cornwall in years of short supply . |
| 3 | ‘ It is the first time in eleven years as a manager that I have not worked with a contract and it is like an air of freedom . ’ |
| 4 | In eleven years to 1990 there was no coherent national programme of education and training . |
| 5 | He had already imposed his personality upon the country in a way that Bonar Law in eleven years of intermittent Conservative leadership had never succeeded in doing . |
| 6 | In eight years of operation , the VSOE charter train has not strayed far from its original concept . |
| 7 | An unprecedented entry of 43 teams brought in a charity bonanza with BNFL raising more than £10,000 — the best effort yet in eight years of competition . |
| 8 | Although the direct cause was the tropical storm , the disaster was also described as man-made , in that years of illegal logging had left the area 's mountains bare and prone to mudslides . |
| 9 | The 19 year old lefthander created one of the biggest match upsets in 92 years of Davis Cup when he surprised world No. 1 Stefan Edberg , , in the opening singles of the first-ever World Group series played in Canada . |
| 10 | The clash marked only the second occasion in 70 years on which police had opened fire on a white crowd . |
| 11 | He is used to it , though ; this is his 11th failure in 12 years of trying . |
| 12 | He is used to it , though ; this is his 11th failure in 12 years of trying . |
| 13 | In 12 years of boxing , he has won an impressive 103 bouts out of 115 , winning seven national titles at different weights . |
| 14 | THE SKATALITES , legendary Jamaican ska outfit , play their first UK gig in 12 years at London 's Finsbury Park George Robey on August 28 . |
| 15 | On a cold and very windy afternoon at Athletic Park it was far removed from a smiling task for Danaher to sit on the benches and watch his men concede an avalanche of tries , 11 in all , the greatest concession to any Irish opposition in 118 years of international participation . |
| 16 | Little more than a handful of people have died there in 22 years of the ‘ troubles ’ . |
| 17 | A 9,000 crowd had the satisfaction of seeing Tendulkar make the highest score in 22 years of Sunday League games against Lancashire . |
| 18 | Western ports did play a part in shipping corn to London , in some years at least , the capital 's swallow reaching as far as Exeter and beyond to Cornwall . |
| 19 | About half the proven breeding population is concentrated at Chichester gravel pits ( up to 31 pairs ) , and Rye Harbour gravel pits ( up to 16 pairs ) , with six or seven pairs breeding in some years on each of Burton Ponds and Darwell Reservoir . |
| 20 | Whereas Antarctic mean October total ozone levels were between 280 and 330 Dobson units during the 1957–76 period , they dropped to 225–250 by the early 1980s and to less than 200 in some years during the late 1980s ( figure 6.5 ) . |
| 21 | Not only did factors draw on it in some years for London , but later in the century the rise of Plymouth as a naval centre provided a counter attraction for corn from its eastern half which might otherwise have gone into the increasingly populous western mining districts . |
| 22 | She put in some years of hard work as hon secretary of the BA ‘ s South Western Branch , and acted as its training officer , finally becoming chairman from 1979 until her retirement . |
| 23 | In some years in the 1430s wages failed to keep pace with high prices , but they rose again in the next two decades . |
| 24 | In a study of a forest as a whole , the Budongo Forest in Uganda , it was found that 40% of all seeds were eaten by rodents before and immediately after germination and about a further 30% were killed in 2 years by browsing antelope , while there were further losses from seed rot , insect and fungal attack and drought . |
| 25 | Well , he 'd only scored 2 goals in 2 years before the Ford fiesta at Cambridge last weekend . |
| 26 | There was significant symbolic value attached to the talks as the first meeting in 30 years between Nelson Mandela , the ANC deputy president , and Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi , leader of Inkatha , who had once been fellow students at university , and were now the country 's two most influential black leaders . |
| 27 | It was one of the very best I 've spent in 30 years of climbing round the world . |
| 28 | I 've never seen anything like it in 30 years of voting ! |
| 29 | ON THE LINE Verity Lambert has learnt a lot in 30 years of TV — and she 's going to need it Picture : HARRY PAGE |
| 30 | The consequence is that Broad Lane 's two largest personalities have banged their heads together and come up with an undisclosed compromise in an effort to prevent Wivenhoe 's first relegation in 30 years of undiluted success . |