Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] in [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government was the first to do without an incomes policy , and the absence of ‘ norms ’ or ‘ targets ’ for incomes in nearly twenty years helped to take the issue of wages out of politics . |
| 2 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 3 | In the year to June 1992 , 11-year-old Sun made a net profit of $173m on sales of $1.6 billion — a threefold increase in revenues in only four years . |
| 4 | Longer life for the individual has probably brought some gains to the community , although perhaps less than is often believed ; yet improvements in longevity in very recent years have been small and the prospects of further improvements do not , at the moment , appear very promising . |
| 5 | This now means a typical return on investment in under two years , some within one year , through a combination of both hard and soft cost savings . |
| 6 | So for all you prospective parents out there help may be at hand in around two years time . |