Example sentences of "the [adj] years it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the intervening years it is estimated that 111 died while trying to escape and a further 77 lost their lives on the Berlin Wall itself , with most of these deaths occurring in the 1960s . |
| 2 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 3 | One is brought back to the fundamental conclusion that throughout the Primary years it is the children 's activity that is the key to full development . |
| 4 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 5 | And although the dominant enterprises in this sense have undoubtedly grown considerably in size , by any measure , over the post-war years it is not obvious that the operating units have grown in the same way . |
| 6 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 7 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |