Example sentences of "[noun] in [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fullback and captain Mark Wyatt , who 29 caps in 10 years is just two fewer than the Canadian record set by lock Ro Hindson between 1973 and 1990 , was not the only one to retire after the World Cup . |
| 2 | Numbers of senior house officers have risen by 14% in three years — far more than was intended — and , by not substantially reducing the number of registrars , JPAC has failed to keep to its terms of reference . |
| 3 | Who would have guessed from his cold efficiency that this was only Damien 's second contest in two years . |
| 4 | Pru-Bache lost $250m in 1990 , its third loss in four years . |
| 5 | Minolta , the camera maker , reporting its first loss in 27 years , has slashed the salaries of 23 directors by up to 20 per cent . |
| 6 | In the week that Alan Sugar was revealed to be Britain 's top earner under the age of 45 , his company , Amstrad , announced its first loss in 23 years . |
| 7 | This is the most significant collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver to appear at auction in twenty years . |
| 8 | ‘ The strange thing is , we have had only one result in six years from the full game . |
| 9 | That could be the vital ingredient for Sunderland as they attempt to embarrass Norwich and the Roker Park directors at Hillsborough by producing the club 's best result in 19 years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | SUPER St Helens yesterday sent champions Wigan crashing to their heaviest League defeat in 20 years . |
| 12 | ENGLAND suffered the ultimate humiliation under Graham Taylor when they crashed to their most embarrassing defeat in 43 years . |
| 13 | After World War two , a lot of people hoped that the we 'll call them the less agreeable characteristics of the German mind , would be changed by the traumatic experiences of the second total defeat in twenty years , physical destruction , national humiliation , embarrassment at having been made the collaborators of nazism and so on . |
| 14 | The Socialist Party had not only suffered its worst election defeat in 25 years but also given every appearance of being in the process of disintegration . |
| 15 | In theory , you could see me in the Sunshine Home for Impoverished Journalists in 40 years ' time , tripping the nurses over with my Zimmer frame in the hope that they 'll let me father their child . |
| 16 | At the end of 1988 , BR 's Provincial sector announced that the Valley Lines had doubled their revenue in five years , the only Provincial services to do so ! |
| 17 | 2.75 was a good price , he is their second most expensive signing ( to Shearer ) , not bad for a midfielder with only 4 goals in 8 years . |
| 18 | Well , he 'd only scored 2 goals in 2 years before the Ford fiesta at Cambridge last weekend . |
| 19 | This was only his second murder in eighteen years , and he was somewhat annoyed by it , coming as it did during the best fishing of the year , and right at the time when his garden was at its peak . |
| 20 | According to Mark Doran , Unix International 's technical project manager , Application Linking wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is intended only as a stop-gap definition until the Object Group delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years ' time . |
| 21 | According to Mark Doran , UI 's technical project manager , ALT wo n't be a full object-oriented specification and is only intended as a stopgap definition until the OMG delivers object linking and embedding guidelines in two years time . |
| 22 | So anyone who wants to study competition , travel and world capitalism in the 1980s for a PhD programme in fifty years time had better take a good look now . |
| 23 | The programme was beaten in the TV ratings only by the ever-popular Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show , which attracted twenty-eight million viewers , the highest figure for any programme in eight years . |
| 24 | Worked her way through the bachelor of science programme in three years , and entered medical school on partial scholarships . |
| 25 | On a cold and very windy afternoon at Athletic Park it was far removed from a smiling task for Danaher to sit on the benches and watch his men concede an avalanche of tries , 11 in all , the greatest concession to any Irish opposition in 118 years of international participation . |
| 26 | He saw no reason to add that from now on , her body would break down : she would gradually become slower in her movements , she would tire more easily and lack stamina , and she would probably have another stroke in seven years ' time — at the latest . |
| 27 | She was confident that she could make her mark on the Rummidge Department in three years . |
| 28 | In real terms , the figure has risen almost 25% in ten years . |
| 29 | Off again , for his 4th red card in 3 years . |
| 30 | ‘ I have never had trouble with any of my lads in 20 years . |