Example sentences of "in [art] [adj] years since " in BNC.
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1 | In the sixteen years since , it has sold 75,000 copies , and people are still finding it helpful , and I myself often take a chapter for meditation , when my own spirit feels low and dry . |
2 | In the 80 years since the aeroplane first appeared in the county , it has brought a great deal of pleasure and prosperity . |
3 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
4 | In the five years since , he has been world champion three times , but the British Open has eluded him . |
5 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
6 | They say the stage is a respectable profession nowadays , well maybe it is , but I ca n't think it 's changed all that much in the five years since I left . |
7 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ? |
8 | Pinchbeck acknowledges that in the five years since he left , Magnus has undergone interesting change . |
9 | Swan numbers in the UK have increased by 25 per cent in the five years since anglers stopped using lead weights , according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
10 | In the five years since this judgment , Parliament has shown little interest , although the Labour Party has endorsed a proposal that those in the distribution business should be under a legal obligation to supply any publication requested by their customers — a reform which would require abolition of the rule that distributors can be held responsible for particular defamations of which they have no knowledge but which are nonetheless contained in libel-prone publications . |
11 | In the five years since the Inspector made his first appearance , the audience has grown to seven hundred and fifty million people worldwide . |
12 | in the five years since they were first subjected to competition , Swedish Railways have transformed both their efficiency and their performance . |
13 | In the four years since we looked at the Subaru estate , it 's gone upmarket with a bang . |
14 | Stock , Aitken and Waterman 's achievements in the four years since they had joined forces were — even in an industry known for its hyperbole — sensational . |
15 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
16 | Meanwhile , he saw no reason to delay other measures in the package : ‘ We have , after all , made extraordinary progress in the four years since these proposals were listed in the White Paper as part of the programme required for the Single Market . |
17 | Although they were still only in their teens , the two young Annamese had undergone a drastic change in appearance in the four years since the Sherman family had watched them gambolling around the cooking tent of their father , Ngo Van Loc , the hunting camp " boy " of Jacques Devraux . |
18 | Two A-320s had crashed previously in the four years since the aircraft went into operation . |
19 | Carden is Europe 's most northerly commercial vineyard and in the four years since it opened has already established itself in the wine market . |
20 | In the 2041 years since , glassmakers have striven for the ultimate : to blow glass as brilliant and pure as the natural rock crystal itself . |
21 | Only those ideas which can be traced through many different formulations on depression in the seventy years since Freud 's book was published are touched upon here . |
22 | In the twenty-two years since Ian Paisley had campaigned for Kilfedder in West Belfast , the world had been turned upside down more than once and the three men had crossed and re-crossed each other , like figures in a bizarre dance . |
23 | Carol , a jeweller for more than 25 years , has built up a steady following for her original designs in the six years since she moved out of London and started her own business . |
24 | Best practice is always a moving target , and in the six years since the directive was issued there have been a number of developments in domestic and international financial reporting that needed to be reflected by credit institutions . |
25 | Software has improved dramatically in the six years since I bought the old computer and this one is faster and easier to use . |
26 | In the six years since the Mulla Committee 's report , there has been a certain amount of further progress , including increases in the prison budget , some new instructions from the central government to the states , and the setting up of a small policy section within the Ministry of Home Affairs to consider the implementation of the recommendations . |
27 | In the thirteen years since these figures were announced , the progress which has been made has been unsatisfactory . |
28 | In the thirteen years since , there is little doubt that the total has decreased considerably . |
29 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
30 | That night , with our generator and four lightbulbs , we illuminated the Keraing 's house and electrified the village for the first time in the thirty-odd years since the invading Japanese had withdrawn from Indonesia . |