Example sentences of "but in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 31 | This is less true of public sector services than of the private sector , but in recent years it is in the latter that growth in employment has been concentrated . |
| 32 | The older Guide-posts stood several feet high for the be back , but in recent years those on the main roads have been considerably reduced in height for the convenience of motorists . |
| 33 | Urban labour markets have spread more deeply into rural areas thanks to improved communications , but in recent years the increasing cost and decreasing availability and frequency of public transport have cancelled out many of the gains which rural workers might otherwise have enjoyed . |
| 34 | Much of the Forestry Commission 's early planting was certainly crude and insensitive , but in recent years it has become more attentive to its landscaping responsibilities ( not least because the Forestry Commission has found that there is money to be made out of tourism if it does so ) and now employs landscape consultants to advise on its planting policies . |
| 35 | But in recent years the wisdom of fostering in all cases has been questioned and the merits of a less emotionally demanding atmosphere , which a home can provide , have been increasingly accepted . |
| 36 | But in recent years criticism has become intense . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | The police is still seen as the first line of defence , but in recent years there has been increased co-operation between the police and the military , as in the joint exercises conducted at Heathrow in preparation for possible terrorist incidents . |
| 40 | Often they still are , but in recent years it has become common for other senior academics to act as heads of departments , sometimes in rotation . |
| 41 | But in recent years we noticed that some candidates were writing to us — or their employers were writing — to say that certificates had n't been received for modules completed one or more years previously . |
| 42 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 43 | Any projected reconstruction of this great temple has been made very difficult by the fragmentation and scattering of the remains but in recent years Anton Bammer has published the results of his work on the site in Die Architektur des Jungeren Artemision von Ephesos , Wiesbaden , 1972 . |
| 44 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 45 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | But in recent years commercial logic has forced them closer together , and the romance started up again . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | But in 10 years time this will only feel like receiving £5,107 , even though you have paid in £6000 ! . |
| 50 | But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ? |
| 51 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 52 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 53 | There were 3,000 pawnbrokers in Greater London in the 1960S , but in ten years the number dropped to 150 . |
| 54 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 55 | Peak numbers were usually present in September or particularly October , but in some years the autumn peak was as late as November . |
| 56 | Of course this contributed to Britain 's ability to feed herself during the Napoleonic Wars , but in bad years , because of the lack of imported corn , most people could not afford bread . |
| 57 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 58 | Mr Alistair McDuff , for the princesses , told the court Mrs Swami 's treatment in the summer of 1983 was dreadful , but in previous years things were not as bad as painted by her . |
| 59 | Wherein their Superior Effects for the cure of gun-shot wounds … ‘ , but in those years it was still an uncouth place , better fitted to receive the injured soldiery than sickly , comfort-loving bourgeois . |
| 60 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |