Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] in [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | TWICE US Open champion and former teenage sensation Tracy Austin began a comeback yesterday by winning her first match in nearly nine years . |
2 | In the first round Austin , the 1979 and 1981 US Open champion and former world No1 , won her first match in nearly nine years . |
3 | He was the first man in nearly twenty years to have a full-face mug-shot on the cover of Surfer . |
4 | For the first time in nearly four years , gross domestic product ( GDP ) fell in the last quarter of 1990 . |
5 | For the first time in nearly 40 years Bentley has a shape to call its own . |
6 | And for the first time in nearly three years she had been able to talk about Martin . |
7 | For the first time in nearly three years someone spoke my name . |
8 | One of Edinburgh 's most unusual houses has opened to the public , for the first time in nearly twenty years . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | British Steel , which yesterday broke through the 100p barrier for the first time in almost two years , lost 3p today to 100p as investors became jittery that its recovery potential might not be as great as originally anticipated . |
14 | As right-wing supporters , many appearing in public for the first time in almost three years , welcomed their liberators with monarchist flags and fascist salutes , many other Spaniards faced a terrifying future : so terrifying , indeed , that to some suicide was preferable . |
15 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |
16 | Tony Wright will be the third captain in as many years . |
17 | Its the third time in as many years that the John Radcliffe Hospital has postponed non emergency operations … last year it was because of the Gulf War … |