Example sentences of "[num] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under John Irvine 's leadership the 100 who came have grown to over 300 in three years . |
| 2 | According to the report , monthly applications for SHP have risen from 1,400 to 7,700 in four years . |
| 3 | The number of mental hospital beds trebled to over 300,000 in 20 years and has since risen to 340,000 . |
| 4 | It has slashed its workforce from 350 to just over 100 in four years , and substituted high-tech gadgets like remote control cameras . |
| 5 | Its credibility suffered : incoming governments often changed its Director-General — it had six in 10 years . |
| 6 | It is of course the string of public transport disasters that has brought such a widespread public reaction — six in three years , with 193 lives lost on Herald of Free Enterprise at Zeebrugge ; 31 deaths in the Kings Cross Underground fire ; 35 deaths at the Clapham rail crash ; 270 lost in the Lockerbie bomb blast ; 47 claimed in the M1 air crash and most recently , 51 in the River Thames from the Marchioness . |
| 7 | ‘ My only previous hole-in-one in 40 years ’ golf was 20 years ago at Phoenix in South Yorkshire , ’ said Hughes senior . |
| 8 | There are various exceptions erm and there have been two or three in recent years , but it therefore meant that they were fair game for saying anything so they were fair game for a very sensational headline because there was very little chance of recrimination . |
| 9 | The data was taken from trials at Silsoe College of tanker and umbilical hose systems between October 1 and March 31 in three years — 1986/7 ( average rainfall ) , 1987/8 ( wet ) and 1988/9 ( dry ) . |
| 10 | The prediction would be for the ownership of cars to rise by 52,000 in 2 years , and so total market demand for cars in Panaragua in this period would be about 52,000 ( or slightly more , allowing for old cars being scrapped ) . |
| 11 | The 30,000 should swell to 100,000 in five years , and the BCS would move centre-stage . |
| 12 | ‘ I won close to Pounds 100,000 in four years on the tour — £60,000 of that during my first season in 1988 . |
| 13 | I 'll be fifty in three years . |
| 14 | Yorkshire are hoping Tendulkar will lure support from the ethnic community to a county which has seen membership decline from 15,000 to 7,000 in recent years . |
| 15 | Allocate the first round of new nursing posts towards the target of 7,000 in two years . |
| 16 | Run by a corporate-style board chaired by Sir Andrew Hugh-Smith , the exchange is leaner than it was — staff numbers have fallen by two-thirds in five years . |
| 17 | The price of photovoltaic power has dropped more than two-thirds in 12 years , and is continuing to fall . |
| 18 | Another estimate puts the figure at $10 billion in 10 years . |
| 19 | The duke , who owns large chunks of Mayfair , lost £1.265 billion in three years , largely due to the collapse in the property market , according to BusinessAge magazine . |
| 20 | On jobs , he predicted an end to the cuts that have taken Wimpey 's UK workforce down 30 per cent to under 11,000 in three years . |
| 21 | Sharelink has built up a clientele of about 57,000 in two years . |
| 22 | The company 's workforce has been almost halved to 102 in three years . |
| 23 | Similar escapes in the past — there 've been 16 in 2 years — have prompted officials of the Prison Officers ' Association to suggest video camera surveillance of the blind spot . |
| 24 | Mike Mahoney , Newcastle 's director of rugby , set the target of promotion to Division One in three years when he moved into the Kingston Park hot seat . |
| 25 | 1 In recent years , as the New Right has come to prominence , a considerable number of political scientists have changed their assessment of the part played by interest groups in British politics . |
| 26 | Hampshire thereby completed a remarkable run in this competition , which has seen them win groups 4 to 1 in successive years . |
| 27 | Wishart Scientific are agents for Olympus microscopes in Northern Ireland and have expanded in personnel from two to twelve in five years . |
| 28 | ‘ There are seven pupils at present but that would rise to twelve in two years if the school [ St Abbs ] stays open . |
| 29 | Most are in primary schools where the average class size has shot up from 26.1 to 28.8 in two years . |
| 30 | He found that the annual output of U.S. geoscience literature increased by a factor of 10.3 in 70 years , and that the overall growth was exponential , but that the relative output of journals changes with time . |