Example sentences of "[that] within [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 All in all , it was still impossible to predict that , within six years of the 1911 national transport stoppage , Wilson 's vision of a joint union-Shipping Federation board would be imposed on the industry and that within nine years it would have been accepted voluntarily by the Federation as the normal and accepted method of conducting business with Wilson and his colleagues .
2 The irony is that within five years , investigations started with a view to relaying part of the canal route to Kilmacolm as far as Paisley for a new passenger service !
3 One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care .
4 Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia .
5 With some industry experts predicting that within five years more people will be sending and receiving faxes through their PC than with stand-alone fax machines it is no wonder that software developers are examining ways of cashing in on this increasing market .
6 If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught .
7 When Jacques Delors said that within 10 years , 80 per cent of the decisions affecting the industrial economic and commercial matters would be taken in Brussels , Lord Young argued with him and said it would be 50 per cent .
8 The most recent evidence suggests that within 10 years , up to 50% of people with HIV infection will progress to AIDS , and a further 20–30% will have some HIV-related illness , if no treatment against HIV is given ( CDSC June 1989 ) .
9 We believe that within 10 years cancer centres will be offering gene therapy as an effective systemic treatment along with surgery , radiotherapy , and chemotherapy .
10 When we published our reports on country houses at risk ( Tomorrow 's Ruins , Silent Mansions and Endangered Domains ) we found that within two years up to two-thirds of the houses had found new owners or new uses .
11 It is hoped that within two years Mr Stott will lead a management buy-out of the People , making it independent of the other Mirror titles .
12 Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% .
13 The governments of the two contracting parties recommend to the legislative bodies of the united Germany that within two years they should deal with the questions regarding amendments or additions to the Basic Law as raised in connection with German unification …
14 It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films .
15 It never occurred to me that within three years I should hate the Italians with an unrelenting hatred .
16 In her case the disease had progressed rapidly with little instances of remission and her condition had deteriorated so much that within three years she was almost permanently confined to a wheelchair .
17 Michael Baly , president of the American Gas Association , reckons that within ten years gas could be a substitute for 2 billion barrels of oil — an eighth of current American oil consumption .
18 Realeat founder Greg Sams predicts that within 20 years half of us will have a vegetable-based diet , and the greatest swing has been seen among the young .
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