Example sentences of "in [adj] years [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1976 , the flow of new investment has been very modest , and in some years negative . |
| 2 | The Scientific Committee had in previous years expressed concern about the Dall 's porpoise harpoon fishery , fearing that even the much smaller annual catch may not have been sustainable , since Japanese scientists had calculated a replacement rate of only about 5000 porpoises each year . |
| 3 | François Couperin , captivated by Corelli 's sonatas , produced his own earliest ones under an Italian-sounding anagram of his own name and in later years paid homage to Corelli in a splendid Apothéose . |
| 4 | FOR THE first time in three years Steffi Graf was yesterday reminded what it feels like to leave a tournament a quarter-final loser when West Germany were beaten 2-1 by Czechoslovakia in the Federation Cup here . |
| 5 | In three years juvenile remands to prison will end in favour of community alternatives . |
| 6 | In succeeding years amateur dramatics played a prominent part in the ever increasing social programme of the branches and Regional Councils of the BDDA . |
| 7 | In Four years old in an urban community ( 1968 ) and Seven years old in the home environment ( 1976 ) , we are given a detailed picture of the domestic background of a group of young readers and young non-readers , perhaps readers and non-readers in the making . |
| 8 | Although in recent years total government capital spending has been of the order of £20 billion per annum , Brown and Jackson ( 1983 , p. 138 ) point out that this represents a real reduction of approximately one half over the past 20 years . |
| 9 | In recent years serious damage to the historic interiors of pubs has resulted from the creation of the open-plan which now seem to be pubs ' standard internal layout . |
| 10 | In recent years political leaders in three of the countries considered in this book , Kenya , Nigeria and Tanzania have very suddenly announced fee-free , and in the last two cases , ‘ universal ’ primary education . |
| 11 | These shortfalls have increased in recent years due to cultivators avoiding cash crops altogether which attract poor prices , bureaucratic and policy-making bungling , and to a general neglect of the building up of physical and institutional infrastructure to aid farming . |
| 12 | In 1972 the number of houses used as second homes in Britain as a whole was estimated at 372000 , but it is believed that this number has declined in recent years due to the inflation in house prices since that date . |
| 13 | In recent years Applied Linguistics at Edinburgh has been closely involved in the organisation of international seminars and conferences . |
| 14 | ( In recent years Western medical practitioners have been astonished by the rejuvenating properties , on the young and old alike , of these exercises . ) |
| 15 | In recent years Western socialists have formulated wide-ranging proposals for socialist economic organization in which markets play a key role . |
| 16 | Soviet cultural initiatives have traditionally been focused on Mexico , but in recent years Soviet musicians and dancers have toured in other parts of Latin America , often with spectacular success . |
| 17 | In recent years new problems have arisen from the mixing of indigenous polar cultures with those from outside , introducing new ecological demands and imposing new stresses on people and environments ill-equipped to cope with them . |
| 18 | Defamation , blasphemy and sedition have been with us for centuries , but in recent years new rods have been fashioned and old ones polished for editorial backs : breach of confidence , contempt of court , official secrecy , " D " notices , incitement to disaffection , prevention of terrorism , copyright — the grounds for censorship are legion . |
| 19 | In recent years other radio astronomers in Cambridge and New Mexico have pinned down the positions of previously unidentified galaxies with increasing accuracy . |
| 20 | Unfortunately for the interesting diversity of the old breeds , the Scandinavian nations have in recent years developed official breeding policies designed to create uniform national breeds by amalgamation , with the result that other breeds have largely been replaced and are now almost extinct , often making way for most untypical horned , pied breeds which have relied to a greater or lesser extent on imported Ayrshires and Friesians . |
| 21 | However this reflects more the wishes of the academics than their market and — in recent years great pressure has been brought to bear to remove this compartmentalisation . |
| 22 | In the past , sea salt has been the only recognized medication for such infections , but in recent years great strides have been made in our understanding of the various fungal infections and cures based upon methylene blue and malachite green are readily available and work simply and quickly . |
| 23 | In recent years external users of accounting information have required from firms their internal management accounting information . |
| 24 | It has meant that in Mexico , for instance , although the proportion of illiterates nationally has decreased every decade , in recent years absolute numbers have been increasing . |
| 25 | That is still not fully understood , but in recent years tiny particles of magnetic material have been discovered both in their skulls and their neck muscles . |
| 26 | We normally aim and have achieved very successfully in recent years real price increases above inflation . |
| 27 | Religion unites or divides , and convictions still run very deep , but in recent years religious differences do n't seem to have figured large in British life , except of course in Northern Ireland , and the disputes and controversies associated with the Reformation have largely been forgotten . |
| 28 | In recent years Conservative administrations have faced greater opposition from the House of Lords than have Labour Governments , partly because there is probably a greater fear of a Labour Government curtailing still further the powers of the Lords should it be faced with opposition from that quarter . |
| 29 | However , in recent years Conservative ministers have been irritated by a steady trickle of government defeats in the Upper House . |
| 30 | In recent years considerable effort has been devoted to making the computerized information system more ‘ user friendly ’ , that is , simpler to use in order to carry out efficient information retrieval . |