Example sentences of "within [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within fifty years West Ham was transformed from an essentially agricultural economy with a few nucleated settlements to the industrial heartland of south-east England . |
| 2 | Within fifty years of the fall of Karak Eight Peaks the Dwarfs have lost all of their major holds south of Karaz a Karak with the exception of Karak Azul , which is under constant siege . |
| 3 | Obviously this was no problem to the American buyers who were out in force and I wondered whether within fifty years all the antiques in Britain would end up in America and we would be confined to department-store replicas . |
| 4 | Then , within fifty years , democracy became a good thing . |
| 5 | Within fifty years there were several silk factories employing four hundred to eight hundred persons , but the silk industry was of secondary importance and did not initiate the factory system . |
| 6 | Within fifty years the area was entirely built over with a population of nearly 70,000 . |
| 7 | Within fifty years Habsburg rule had penetrated southward from Inner Austria and Styria to the Adriatic , incorporating Carinthia and Carniola in 1335 . |
| 8 | And they said within fifty years false teeth will be a thing of the past . |
| 9 | Experience shows that 80 per cent of HIV cases will go on to develop Aids , on average within eight years . |
| 10 | Within eight years he had fully repaid his creditors and accumulated a greater fortune than ever before . |
| 11 | As an example of the reduction of sentence , some inmates , including ex-National Guardsmen , serving twenty-to thirty-year sentences , had reached the open system of the fifth stage within eight years of incarceration . |
| 12 | It was realised that the main benefits of the system would be intangible , ie. increased efficiency , improved service in quality and quantity etc , but it was an aim to achieve a payback of the system development cost within eight years . |
| 13 | Debt due for repayment within two years could be paid within five years , and debt due to be repaid over a longer period could be paid within eight years . |
| 14 | Britain is committed to cease marine dumping of sewage within eight years and must at least quadruple its facility for incineration in order to meet this obligation . |
| 15 | This dump is expected to be full within eight years . |
| 16 | Of marriages that took place in 1951 , 10% had ended in divorce by 25 years , in contrast 10% of couples who married in 1971 were divorced by their 6th wedding anniversary and of those married in 1981 , 10% had divorced within 4.5 years . |
| 17 | More children came with monotonous regularity ; within eleven years a total of ten children were born ( of whom three did not survive ) . |
| 18 | The three quartets in the programme are all among the greatest and they were all composed in Vienna within forty years — Haydn ( 1788 ) , Beethoven ( 1807 ) , Schubert ( 1826 ) . |
| 19 | The 1988 General Household Survey found that 29% of women and 36% of men divorced during the period 1981–84 had remarried within 2 years of divorce . |
| 20 | c ) If such notice is given or the employment is so terminated after 15 months and within 2 years , the repayment will be one quarter of the amount . |
| 21 | Reconviction figures for prisoners released in 1985 suggest that 55 per cent of men and 34 per cent of women are reconvicted within 2 years . |
| 22 | Candidates may attempt further speed tests ( 2065 ) without retaking the proficiency examination , within 2 years of gaining a proficiency certificate . |
| 23 | Candidates may attempt further speed tests ( 3065 ) without retaking the proficiency examination , within 2 years of gaining a proficiency certificate . |
| 24 | The best strategy with this project is to carry out the initial development and , if it is successful within 2 years , launch the project . |
| 25 | The best strategy with this project is to carry out the initial development and , if it is successful within 2 years , launch the project . |
| 26 | Linear discriminant analysis showed that polyp recurrence within 2 years of index polypectomy was most likely to occur when index labelling indices were greater than 15.5 for compartment 3 or greater than 3.5 for compartment 4+5 . |
| 27 | New research from Grendon 's psychology department shows 33% of Grendon graduates offended again within 2 years of being released , compared to 40% from normal prisons . |
| 28 | Thus , the mean proportion of time spent retired by those within 4–6 years of pension age was 19 per cent , compared with 57 per cent of those within 3–4 years , and 84 per cent of those with 1–2 years to go before reaching pension age . |
| 29 | Using Nirex 's own figures , the report concludes that groundwater contaminated by the radioactive waste could reach the surface within 300 years , not the tens of thousands of years which the company has claimed . |
| 30 | South Australia 's remaining marsupial population is threatened with extinction within 12 years , as a result of " disastrous " management of national parks , according to Liberal Party . |