Example sentences of "in [adj] years there " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be little rain for ten months of the year — and in some years there may be no rain at all . |
| 2 | And there 's also something else that I forgot to bring up and that is that they 're trying to find new ways of removing the gases , and they reckoned that in 2 years there 's going to be an electrical method , an electrical filter , and the lab is 99% efficient . |
| 3 | We want to swap our nice , two-bedroom bungalow near the Essex coast for somewhere nearer Herts or Sussex yet in three years there has n't been a decent inquiry . |
| 4 | In 1873 , Edward Dannreuther talked on the music of the future ( meaning Wagner 's ) and Sidney Colvin on taste and artistic judgement ; and in succeeding years there were always some Discourses essentially on the arts-a word which by this time had come to mean literature , music , painting and sculpture rather than crafts and techniques . |
| 5 | In many years there were several . |
| 6 | For the first time in many years there is hope that by means of the NHS and Community Care Act of 1990 , imperfect and incomplete though it may be , the fundamental organizational and financial changes needed to foster good community care have been made . |
| 7 | In post-war years there was only a nine-minute service of Marton cars during the summer season , until it closed in 1961 . |
| 8 | In postwar years there has been a tendency for MPs to be even more middle-class than they were hitherto . |
| 9 | As in other years there will be an exhibition of young German artists , in this instance born between 1953 and 1968 . |
| 10 | In recent years there has been considerable discussion of the role of the Sovereign in the eventuality of a hung Parliament , such as that of 1929–31 , and the general conclusion has been that her role is essentially a passive one . |
| 11 | In recent years there have certainly been dramatic moves to open sport up to the forces of the market . |
| 12 | Which is not to say that popular humour in the States is particularly nice : in recent years there has been a great demand for in-your-face racist , ethnic and misogynist stuff , as typified on the respectable side by Jackie Mason and on the unholy by Andrew Dice Clay . |
| 13 | Many fashions such as the kipper tie and the string tie have come and gone , and in recent years there has been an upsurge in the popularity of vivid colours and flamboyant designs . |
| 14 | In recent years there had been a considerable increase in the revenue derived from tourism . |
| 15 | In recent years there has been a move in UK schools to standardise scientific nomenclature , and to phase out imperial measurements in favour of metric ones . |
| 16 | Ciba-Geigy runs company management courses and in recent years there has been a steady increase in the number of women in these courses . |
| 17 | In recent years there has been a great increase in the use of active compounds . |
| 18 | And of course in recent years there has been yet another pressure to move away from Brian Way 's methods . |
| 19 | MI6 remains to this day a secret organisation that does not officially exist despite the fact that in recent years there have been numerous books written about its activities . |
| 20 | In recent years there has been an explosion in the growth of business travel . |
| 21 | In recent years there has also been an increasing trend towards imports of products rather than crude oil which has not helped the domestic oil industry . |
| 22 | In recent years there have been very large increases in the number of new publications appearing on the market . |
| 23 | In recent years there has been more emphasis on the objectives of library services , and less upon quantitative measures . |
| 24 | In recent years there has been a strong demand for the Galloway from Germany , especially for low-cost meat production on upland heaths and lowland swamps where the typical German dual-purpose breeds need to be brought inside for the winter and need better grazing . |
| 25 | In the main it causes few problems , but in recent years there has been a rise in cases that cause conflict for the advice worker . |
| 26 | In recent years there has been a tremendous drive to keep elderly persons in their own homes for as long as possible , by giving close support to relatives and friends and by providing support from community services such as home helps and ‘ meals-on-wheels ’ . |
| 27 | In recent years there have been records for every month as single birds have summered five or six times . |
| 28 | In recent years there has been some evidence that they are even more evasive , changing identity by oscillating from one type of neutrino to another . |
| 29 | The Report concluded : ‘ Moreover in recent years there was a substantial increase in Argentina 's military strengths in all three of its armed services , which must have increased its confidence in its ability to occupy the Islands and retain them . ’ |
| 30 | In recent years there has been an improvement in the standard and a number of top athletes have appeared at the event to earn it some respectability . |