Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] in [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A third round of financing is n't planned as Liautaud is looking towards initial public offering in around two years ' time . |
| 2 | A third round of financing is n't planned as Liautaud is looking towards initial public offering in around two years ' time . |
| 3 | A SURGE in American exports to record levels was responsible for a dramatic improvement in February 's trade deficit to the lowest level in nearly nine years . |
| 4 | Dempsey defended his title only six times in as many years and constantly snubbed black challenges , one interesting one appearing in the pages of the New York Times from a certain Prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim of Egypt whose special weapon was a ‘ pyramid punch ’ ( 4 March 1924 , p. 14 ) . |
| 5 | Why should we worry when spacefarers have not suffered any serious harm in so many years of space travel ? |
| 6 | First , Sir Robin and his team had developed , and persuaded ministers to adopt , the most radical plan — the so-called Next Steps — for restructuring the Civil Service in nearly 150 years . |
| 7 | There have been three large volcanic eruptions along such boundaries in very recent years : Mt St Helens in the state of Washington , El Chichón in Mexico and one just north-west of Bogotá in Columbia . |
| 8 | Fifty films in as many years … all made in Britain . |
| 9 | Conran Octopus and the RHS have previously collaborated on Hanging Baskets , Windows and Containers , which has sold nearly 200,000 copies in under two years . |
| 10 | A STORE boss was sacked for taking 60 weeks sick leave in just two years . |
| 11 | Britain 's retail sales jumped 3.7% in March , the largest monthly increase in nearly 12 years , as shoppers rushed to beat April 's deadline for higher value-added tax . |
| 12 | This misconception has led many researchers in more recent years to discuss the apparent absence of evidence for members of the native population . |
| 13 | On the south bank of the Thames , plans for the vacant site that will one day become London Bridge City , Part II , recently entered their fifth major redesign in as many years . |
| 14 | We 've come a long , long way in just five years . ’ |
| 15 | March 7th was one of the most momentous days in British sport during the last 50 years and , when our English team achieved the first back-to-back Grand Slam in almost 70 years , we are snatched away to watch highlights of Scotland v France . |
| 16 | Still largely a cult figure in Britain , Rice has written 13 books in as many years under three different names . |
| 17 | TWICE US Open champion and former teenage sensation Tracy Austin began a comeback yesterday by winning her first match in nearly nine years . |
| 18 | In the first round Austin , the 1979 and 1981 US Open champion and former world No1 , won her first match in nearly nine years . |
| 19 | Both accounts also demonstrate that as soon as this new configuration was established , Oppenheimer described it as ‘ technically so sweet ’ , and it was translated into practical terms in under two years , for the November 1952 ‘ MIKE ’ test . |
| 20 | The move came four days after the Labour Department announced that unemployment had increased to 7.5 per cent , the highest total in nearly eight years . |
| 21 | He was the first man in nearly twenty years to have a full-face mug-shot on the cover of Surfer . |
| 22 | For the first time in nearly four years , gross domestic product ( GDP ) fell in the last quarter of 1990 . |
| 23 | For the first time in nearly 40 years Bentley has a shape to call its own . |
| 24 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
| 25 | For the first time in nearly three years someone spoke my name . |
| 26 | One of Edinburgh 's most unusual houses has opened to the public , for the first time in nearly twenty years . |
| 27 | One January 20 , he promises the front door of the White House will swing open for the first time in nearly 30 years , as Bill , wife Hilary and 12-year-old daughter Chelsea pop down to McDonald 's and do a little shopping . |
| 28 | Today , South Africa play rugby in England for the first time in nearly 23 years when a line-up containing five current internationals faces the Midlands at Leicester 's Welford Road . |
| 29 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 30 | New Zealand 's quarrel with France over the Rainbow Warrior incident was formally ended when a French naval ship docked at Auckland for the first time in almost six years . |