Example sentences of "[adv] within [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The environmental pressure group Greenpeace decided to highlight a particular nuclear power station as part of its ambitious post-Chernobyl campaign to have all nuclear installations shut down within four years . |
| 2 | It can do so only within five years from becoming aware of the location of the object and the identity of the possessor , and within thirty years of the illegal removal . |
| 3 | Stone free interval — Earlier reports suggested that if gall stones were going to recur , most would do so within two years of stopping bile acid treatment or not at all . |
| 4 | So within twenty years there has been an enormous change . |
| 5 | Import of foreign technology was encouraged , with the stipulation that 90 per cent of licensed parts be produced domestically within five years . |
| 6 | There is also a time limit for lodging complaints which is normally within three years of the act , or failure to act , about which you are complaining . |
| 7 | Rejected manuscripts are often re-submitted to different journals , and Abelson 1 , who was editor of Science for 23 years , found that 85% of such papers , rejected by Science , appeared elsewhere within two years . |
| 8 | Rejected manuscripts are often re-submitted to different journals , and Abelson , who was editor of Science for 23 years , found that 85% of such papers , rejected by Science , appeared elsewhere within two years . |
| 9 | Walkinshaw happened to mention that his motor group TWR Ltd were working on a deal with a retail garage business to form a company which would be floated off within five years . |
| 10 | THE Leaning Tower of Pisa is likely to be a little more upright within two years , according to a commission of experts appointed by the Italian government to decide how to stop it collapsing . |
| 11 | Town — owned by Michael Heseltine — was a monthly , oriented inefficiently to the male equivalent of the readers of Queen , and stumbling blindly towards the market to be opened up within two years by Tony Elliott 's Time Out . |
| 12 | Italian glaciologists have reported the shrinkage of the Valtellina ice cap over the Italian Alps , suggesting that it could disappear altogether within 60 years . |
| 13 | Coleman published little in his long life — all his works came out within nine years of his appointment as Professor . |
| 14 | At the current slaughtering rate , the UK egg industry will be wiped out within 10 years . |
| 15 | The grasses for long leys should have very little Italian ( annual ) rye-grass , as this is liable to die out within two years leaving gaps where indigenous grasses such as poa annua will take over . |
| 16 | Debts on both the bridge and tunnels at Dartford are expected to be wiped out within 17 years when the structure will be transferred to the government , and the contractors will have recovered the costs and made a profit . |
| 17 | Mr Patten remains convinced that most secondary schools will opt out within four years but is worried by the success of local campaigns against the switch . |
| 18 | Import quota restrictions on textiles would be phased out within six years , provided that this set no precedent for wider negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 19 | Estimates suggest that there may be enough coal left to last a few more hundred years , enough oil to last perhaps 70 or so years and natural gas could run out within 50 years . |
| 20 | It adds that , at current rates , the forests ' will be effectively logged out within 40 years . |
| 21 | A person in possession of a moveable chattel ( e.g. a painting ) who loses it , or has it stolen from him or otherwise taken from him against his will can demand it back within five years from any person who then has possession of it [ Art . |
| 22 | That way , a business man making an investment would know that he would get his money back within four years . |
| 23 | Terry Heneaghan , Pittencrieff 's chief executive , said the two acquisitions were in line with its investment philosophy that any acquisition should pay back within four years and should improve cashflow and earnings per share . |
| 24 | JACK CROMBIE Right line : Terry Heneaghan , Pittencrieff 's chief executive , who says recent acquisitions are in line with the investment philosophy that any acquisition should pay back within four years |
| 25 | There 's never anyone there within 20 years of 50 and when people stare at me they 're either thinking I 'm a pervert who 's going to come over and feel their bottom when the band are on or I 'm ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio . ’ |
| 26 | There 's never anyone there within 20 years of 50 and when people stare at me they 're either thinking I 'm a pervert who 's going to come over and feel their bottom when the band are on or I 'm ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio . ’ |
| 27 | Nothing daunted , the people of Rapperswil built the castle again within 4 years . |
| 28 | New research from Grendon 's psychology department shows 33% of Grendon graduates offended again within 2 years of being released , compared to 40% from normal prisons . |
| 29 | Yet within two years of the publication of this gloomy statement the educational powers that be were asserting the need to incorporate into the new National Curriculum educational preparation for citizenship . |
| 30 | Yet within two years the percentage of sub-£2 assessments jumped from a modest 39½ to more than 56 . |