Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adv] [conj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been stamping his feet impatiently in Gdansk waiting for the call to be Poland 's first non-communist president in more than 40 years . |
| 2 | THE youngest defendant to appear in the dock at the Old Bailey in more than 150 years was cleared yesterday of killing a blind 93-year-old widow . |
| 3 | Page 29 Sterling slumps : The pound posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost six pfennigs in a few hours to close at DM2.9737 . |
| 4 | THE POUND yesterday posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost 6 pfennigs within a few hours . |
| 5 | ‘ This will be your third home in less than three years . |
| 6 | It was the worst train accident in more than 20 years . |
| 7 | And while Syncordia has won around $100m of business in less than two years , it is still losing a pile of money . |
| 8 | But BT 's Syncordia , despite having snared $100m of business in less than two years , is still making heavy losses . |
| 9 | Queens Moat Houses , chaired by former estate agent John Bairstow , expanded rapidly in the UK and on the continent , funded by seven calls on shareholders for extra cash in less than ten years . |
| 10 | Situated on the coastline of Omura Bay near the City of Nagasaki , the town of Huis ten Bosch covers an area of 1.5 million square metres and has risen from the ground in less than eight years . |
| 11 | Urging the country to unite behind her after the trauma of the sixth uprising against her government in less than four years , Ms Aquino said she was determined not to allow ‘ any aggressor to wrest our freedom and democracy away from us . |
| 12 | It started in the USA and spread across the world in less than four years . |
| 13 | Islands around the world have often hosted odd dwarf forms of mainland creatures : pony-sized elephants once lived on Malta ; and it was reported by Adrian Lester of Cambridge University , in a recent Nature article , that red deer from the last Ice Age evolved into a dwarf form in less than 6000 years after being marooned on the island of Jersey . |
| 14 | He had his first taste of unemployment in more than ten years of working life when he was made redundant six months ago . |
| 15 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 16 | OVER the past six months , the world 's largest army has undergone its biggest shake-up in more than 20 years . |
| 17 | LAST autumn , the Bank was back on television in most of Scotland for the first time in more than two years with a campaign of three commercials . |
| 18 | It will be the first time in more than two years that the ANC leader has shared a platform with Chief Buthelezi . |
| 19 | Government statistics showed the number of people without work fell last month for the first time in more than two years |
| 20 | The Town Cinema opens its doors for the first time in more than thirty years tonight . |
| 21 | The trees are being re-coppiced this week for the first time in more than 50 years to keep them healthy . |
| 22 | FOR the first time in more than 20 years the Drummond Locomotive Society 's Class M7 locomotive No. 30053 hauled a passenger train at the East Anglian Railway Museum where it has been undergoing major restoration work . |
| 23 | Continuing a process of democratization which began with the election of all 950 members for the Tirupati plenum by the party 's rank and file , elections were held for the first time in more than 20 years for party posts including the 10 elective posts in the party 's most senior decision-making body , the Congress working committee ( CWC ) . |
| 24 | For the first time in more than 40 years of power in Italy — more than twice the reign of Mussolini 's fascism — they no longer have the threat of the largest Communist Party in Western Europe to keep them in power . |