Example sentences of "[noun] in four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pru-Bache lost $250m in 1990 , its third loss 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 | There 've been five home secretaries in four years and civil servants are unclear which direction ministers will take next . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | A SPIN-OFF from the Teesside Women 's Cancer Prevention Unit appeal , which has raised over £ 5m in four years , became £500 richer yesterday thanks to staff at the Royal Mail sorting office in Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | The company does not have a sparkling financial story to tell — it lost £1.7m pre-tax on turnover of £12.5m in the year to September 30 , and its only profitable period in four years was the nine months to September 1991 , when it did £684,000 pre-tax on sales of £9.6m . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The sheer scale of military involvement was bound to place a major strain on her resources , and it was unlikely that a Japan that had been unable to achieve a Chinese surrender in four years when her military efforts were largely concentrated on that country would be able to secure a military victory now that many of her resources were diverted elsewhere . |
| 9 | I am already looking forward to Atlanta in four years time . ’ |
| 10 | We should have a play-back in four years time . |
| 11 | Unemployment has risen to its highest level in four years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Cases are taking 16 months or more , with a backlog of 60,000 , and this must be rectified , especially as , we have been told , the number of applications has increased by 10 times in four years — from 5,000 in 1988 to 50,000 this year . |
| 14 | However a worrying trend is the sharp rise in the number of accidents involving cyclists , but without further research it is not possible to say whether this is a consequence of the doubling of the number of cyclists in Buxtehude in four years , a trend encouraged by the introduction of environmental traffic management . |
| 15 | This was the fourth mass killing in Australia in four years . |
| 16 | ‘ He could be back as coach or manager in four years time . |
| 17 | AS The Milk Race cavalcade left Liverpool today , Chris Lillywhite looked to be heading for the Banana team 's third race victory in four years . |
| 18 | ‘ Andy wrote one song in four years and Hazel was halfway through her first of the year . |
| 19 | This is its third famine warning in four years , and the direst so far . |
| 20 | The Horn of Africa , the subject of the third famine warning in four years , was again worst hit and needed just under two-thirds of total emergency aid . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As a buoyed-up Blues strode towards their first championship in four years Martin Bayly , another southerner , joined the ranks . |
| 23 | Linfield clinched their first championship in four years last season on goal difference from Crusaders in a thrilling fight to the finish . |
| 24 | Allow 1.2m ( 4ft ) between the plants and expect them to reach full size in four years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Fairbrother went on to hit an unbeaten 64 and Lancashire roared to their third Benson & Hedges Cup Final in four years as Wasim Akram destroyed Leicestershire . |
| 27 | and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult ! |
| 28 | He had n't been back to Beirut in four years . |
| 29 | However , this week Dallas are going into week two with one of their worst starts in four years . |
| 30 | he gave me this erm sheet in four years for the essay questions |