Example sentences of "in four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not suprisingly , it was a nerve-racking finale but eventually the more experienced Australians triumphed 5-7 , 6-4 , 6-0 , to carry their country into the semi-finals for the first time in four years . |
| 2 | Selkirk … . 16 Boroughmuir .. 9 EVEN with three replacements permissible it is not always possible to cover the loss of a key player , as Boroughmuir discovered when suffering their third defeat in four years at the hands of Selkirk , this time by a 16-9 margin . |
| 3 | THE ELECTION CONTEXT : ONCE IN FOUR YEARS |
| 4 | In order to enslave the English people , we might argue , it is only necessary to enslave them at election time : once in four years Is enough . |
| 5 | ONCE IN FOUR YEARS : THE FINDINGS |
| 6 | In four years I fostered one ! and I am proud to say that Fr Liam Durrant , our present Vocations Director , came through my hands — should he be successful , would that make me a grandfather ? ! |
| 7 | In four years , Famous Players-Lasky had given the go-ahead to only one screenplay from a British writer . |
| 8 | This is its third famine warning in four years , and the direst so far . |
| 9 | Grain output rose by 6% , and wheat was in surplus for the first time in four years . |
| 10 | Pru-Bache lost $250m in 1990 , its third loss in four years . |
| 11 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 12 | Later , Mr Howie forecast that the boards would still be around in four years ' time . |
| 13 | She had aged in four years , lost whatever attraction she had ever had , and it made her miserable to realise this son would not remember her without grey hair . |
| 14 | The average wage increase in industry this spring is slightly below five per cent for the first time in four years . |
| 15 | In four years Kvaerner has all but turned the business round after investing £30m in a new fabrication shed , welding technology , training and working hard at producing a culture change . |
| 16 | It was a bitter blow for Allcock , Britain 's outstanding bowler in the past decade , for he has now reached this final three times in four years , only to finish runner-up in each . |
| 17 | For the game against Lancashire — the county 's third final in four years — the Cornwall union have experienced unprecedented demand , despite the traditional inflow of holiday-makers and rugby club tours that should , in theory , keep many black-and-gold supporters at home . |
| 18 | In four years ’ time the world 's biggest nuclear power station — a £70 million project with a capacity of 500 megawatts will dominate the scene . ’ |
| 19 | Ben Johnson improved in four years from being a skinny undersized 15-year-old to running the 100 metres in 10.25 and becoming one of the world 's leading juniors — on nothing more exceptional than plenty of food , regular training and competitive instinct . |
| 20 | Kofi , her husband , has done well in four years of selling plastic shoes on the river . |
| 21 | This was to be preferred to the more rigid prescriptions of schools like the large 11–18 Welsh comprehensive which allocated young pupils to sharply divided courses within the school : one group advancing fast to O level in four years , four groups in five years , the next four to CSE ( for which see Chapter 7 ) in five years , four groups following special technical courses , two following general technical courses , two or three on commercial courses , and finally two groups for ‘ low ability ’ pupils . |
| 22 | ‘ Look forward to welcoming Toby to the reception class in four years ' time ! ’ |
| 23 | Arsenal , having won the Cup and two Championships in four years , could not go on for much longer with the same team , and in 1933 Chapman 's major concern was to find replacements to keep the club on top . |
| 24 | Since we covered as many miles in six months as many Caterham owners do in four years , that 's not an unreasonable failure rate for a car built by amateurs and speaks volumes for the simplicity , strength and quality of the materials Caterham employs for its cars . |
| 25 | In four years of road testing I have never seen two such similar sets of statistics . |
| 26 | Darren Pearce 's Sapphire 1.8 LX has racked up a remarkable 112,000 miles in four years without missing a beat — and without regular servicing |
| 27 | Of course the low percentage achievement does in part reflect the very high targets that were set as the plan was revised upwards during the course of the period , and it was carried out under the slogan of ‘ the five year plan in four years ’ . |
| 28 | In Four years old in an urban community ( 1968 ) and Seven years old in the home environment ( 1976 ) , we are given a detailed picture of the domestic background of a group of young readers and young non-readers , perhaps readers and non-readers in the making . |
| 29 | Staying first of all with the Maggses — ‘ the first parents I had in four years and I have good reason for not putting parents in inverted commas ’ — in a small country town , he learned the respectable , middle-class way to do things : |
| 30 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |