Example sentences of "[noun] in the [num ord] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider for example the case of the avoidance of brother-sister incest , which is based to a substantial degree on an inhibition developed during close domestic association in the first six years of life . |
| 2 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 4 | The present Dean of Emmanuel College Cambridge , Revd Don Cupitt , concluded in his Sea of Faith TV series ( and book ) that these two thinkers must represent what has happened to religious thinking in the last 100 years . |
| 5 | Only David Platt can rival the Sheffield Wednesday pair for caps in the last three years . |
| 6 | The team found no episode in the last 1,000 years to match the growth in the width of tree rings recorded in the last 25 years and the temperature rise that this indicates . |
| 7 | Although we 've advanced a great deal in the last fifty years , we still have a way to go and our self esteem is lower than men . |
| 8 | WHETHER WE LIKE it or not , the world we live in has changed a great deal in the last hundred years , and it is likely to change even more in the next hundred . |
| 9 | Many course combinations in the first two years provide a background for Medical Microbiology in third and fourth years . |
| 10 | The district has been national finalists in the Britain in Bloom contest in the last four years and this has been achieved by the magnificent floral displays which can be seen throughout the summer months in our area . |
| 11 | The UK Department of Trade & Industry on Monday licensed a new transatlantic telephone operator on Monday , and the company has now begun operating : Swiftcall Ltd is using lines that it leases from Mercury Communications Ltd with calls to be delivered in the US by Sprint Corp , and will charge between 25 pence and 28 pence a minute plus tax , with a sign-on fee of £1,000 for companies , £50 for residential subscribers , the fee to be set against call charges until it runs out ; Swiftcall founder Tom McCabe told the paper that even at 30% capacity , he could reach annual turnover of £10m and make a substantial profit ; he plans a £2m investment in the first three years and will run the service with a staff of four from the World Trade Centre , near the Tower of London . |
| 12 | ‘ We have already cut £6.5m in the last two years and lost 80 jobs last year , ’ said Coun Carr . |
| 13 | Major changes in organizations in the last 20 years have often led to dissonance over expectations . |
| 14 | Sotheby 's will be offering one of the two greatest paintings by Kandinsky to be offered at auction in the last thirty years . |
| 15 | Of the ten copies sold at auction in the last eighty years , only one has been perfect . |
| 16 | More recently there have been letters and articles predicting a world population of 15 billion , but no account has been taken of the fact that between 10 and 25 per cent could die of AIDS in the next twenty years , as is already happening in parts of Africa . |
| 17 | Experiments on animals in the last 20 years have revealed that there are several different types of memory ( for example , memory for places , or for events , or for movements ) , that each can be independently disturbed , and that each is primarily controlled by a different part of the brain . |
| 18 | We get the following result in the first five years ( Pius first ) : 1963 , 28–63 ; 1964 , 53–36 ; 1965 , 30–43 ; 1966 , 31–34 ; 1967 , 22–35 . |
| 19 | I 've seen her in about one programme in the last five years |
| 20 | It has been estimated that the industry may be short of some 50,000 skilled craftsmen in the next two years . |
| 21 | The vendor agrees to remedy any defects at his own expense in the first two years , where the defect arises from a breach of NHBC standards . |
| 22 | So those two factors affect how much of the client 's premium buys units in the first four years . |
| 23 | O K , so those are the two factors that affect the allocation to units in the first four years . |
| 24 | ‘ We have had more fan mail in the last two years than we ever did in the previous 30 , ’ Gerald says . |
| 25 | More than two in five companies have changed their method of obtaining company cars in the last 10 years , says the survey , and of these , half changed to contract hire . |
| 26 | Thus many students would take a single , combined or ( more rarely ) a tripartite subject degree , with one or two ancillary or subsidiary subjects in the first two years , and some main subject options in the final year . |
| 27 | Two waves of innovation are relevant here : firstly , the permeation of Information Technology , particularly desktop publishing , across the curriculum in the 1980s and , secondly , the attempt in the last four years to position electronic , in the sense of non-print , publishing within the course . |
| 28 | If everybody who bought a foreign car in the last ten years had bought a British one instead , there would n't be seventeen per cent unemployment in this area . ’ |
| 29 | Edward III 's ecclesiastical patronage in the first twenty-five years of his reign was more than treble that of Edward I ( in thirty-five years ) and double Edward II 's ( in twenty-five years ) : the comparative figures , revealed by the researches of Dr Saunders , are 919 ( Edward I ) , 1419 ( Edward II ) and 3182 ( 1327–52 ) . |
| 30 | The report also reveals that new courses are planned in performing arts , engineering , leisure industry skills , media studies and beauty therapy in the next two years . |