Example sentences of "in [adj] years [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her prospects of playing her third final in eight years must be bright , since she beat the No 2 seed , Robyn Lambourne , of Australia , in Cardiff in February . |
| 2 | It was announced on Feb. 11 that Nepal 's first multiparty general election in 30 years would be held on May 30 . |
| 3 | Although they will grow on successfully when put out into the garden in spring or summer , the flowers you get in future years may well turn pink if you are not on an acid soil . |
| 4 | Changes in the level of support in future years will only be made to take account of inflation or changes in the size and composition of the total population within each local authority area . |
| 5 | Analysis of accidents involving bus passengers in future years will be undertaken . |
| 6 | In 100 years will anyone know the difference between this and a Nineties rétro movie ? |
| 7 | The willingness of the commons to grant the maltote in these years should dispose of the argument that they wished to see the tax abolished . |
| 8 | It is indeed hard to see how any Unionist leader in these years could have acted against such firm convictions to put the national interest first . |
| 9 | But the development of a child 's body and mind in the first three years of life is absolutely vital — any stunting of growth in these years can not be made up for in later life . |
| 10 | Arthritic and near blind , he found he was also suffering from cancer and in human years would have been aged around 90 . |
| 11 | And the fact that he seemed to accept the failure of his play , which in previous years would have depressed and unnerved him , is further evidence that he was now a more sanguine man . |
| 12 | But Kinnear believes his team 's experience at clawing their way out of trouble in previous years will serve them well in their latest survival struggle . |
| 13 | This he did with difficulty , partly on account of his bad eyesight , partly because of what in later years would come to be referred to as ‘ a learning disability ’ or ‘ mild dyslexia ’ ; and partly because he simply was n't much of a reader . |
| 14 | As a result , the performance in later years could very easily be enhanced . |
| 15 | The history of my birth is unclear because NHS records have now been lost , so doctors in later years could only guess at the cause of my disability which became evident a few week after I was born . |
| 16 | Any one application must not exceed £1,000 and a maximum of three applications in three years can be made . |
| 17 | Collins says of Wilkinson : ‘ Any man who wins two championships in three years must be good — he certainly ca n't be bad ! ’ |
| 18 | Those who wanted to know afterwards why British economic recovery was so poor by comparison with that of Germany and Japan in those years need have looked no further . |
| 19 | What Karl Rahner achieved in those years can hardly be summarized ( but see his Foundations of Christian Faith , 1978 , ch . |
| 20 | No significant additions to IT are envisaged in the foreseeable future but as RBG becomes more independent and estates staff and records increase a review in five years will be essential . |
| 21 | A new landing stage needed in five years will cost £10m and a new ferry boat will cost £8m to £10m the projected life of the existing three boats is five years . |
| 22 | In this respect City 's sixth manager in nine years might yet become another of their shorter-term employees . |
| 23 | In this respect City 's sixth manager in nine years might yet become another of their shorter-term employees . |
| 24 | A man who would get seven children on Dinah in twelve years would surely need one . |
| 25 | I can not see how young people who have failed to learn anything in four years will suddenly become sophisticated consumers of education and buy training wisely . |
| 26 | The authors suggest the rise in kidnapping in recent years may be related to the easier access now available to neonatal units , which were once open only to fathers , and then within strict visiting hours . |
| 27 | One of the most significant trends in recent years may prove to be the growth of religious consciousness in the West . |
| 28 | The quantitative growth of advanced capitalist states in recent years may be illustrated by the proportion of GDP represented by general government expenditure in OECD countries , shown in table 2.1 . |
| 29 | Anyway who has followed the actions of the opposition in Bremen or Hamburg in recent years can hardly avoid the conclusion that the Christian Democrats ( the opposition ) are not interested in gaining power ( since lucrative public positions are given to them anyway ) … |
| 30 | Since they involve the same Ernst equation , it is clear that all the solution generating techniques that have been developed for stationary axisymmetric space-times in recent years can also be applied to colliding plane wave situations . |