Example sentences of "[noun] in [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This now means a typical return on investment in under two years , some within one year , through a combination of both hard and soft cost savings . |
| 2 | Still largely a cult figure in Britain , Rice has written 13 books in as many years under three different names . |
| 3 | A third round of financing is n't planned as Liautaud is looking towards initial public offering in around two years ' time . |
| 4 | A third round of financing is n't planned as Liautaud is looking towards initial public offering in around two years ' time . |
| 5 | They , they 'd beat Arsenal in more recent years in erm in the Milk Cup at Arsenal , that was very exciting a few years ago . |
| 6 | On the south bank of the Thames , plans for the vacant site that will one day become London Bridge City , Part II , recently entered their fifth major redesign in as many years . |
| 7 | Why should we worry when spacefarers have not suffered any serious harm in so many years of space travel ? |
| 8 | A farmer has been using four oxen to plough a field in what 's believed to be the first public demonstration of the skill in almost twenty-five years . |
| 9 | The facts though are clear : Kleon in the fifth century and Demosthenes in the fourth are found tin the Council in specially exciting years for foreign affairs , 427 and 346 , the years of the Mytilene Debate and the Peace of Philokrates respectively ( pp. 130 , 253 ) . |
| 10 | If Pearl decided to resist the overtures of AMP it will be the second major takeover battle in the British life assurance sector in barely two years . |
| 11 | In the year to June 1992 , 11-year-old Sun made a net profit of $173m on sales of $1.6 billion — a threefold increase in revenues in only four years . |
| 12 | In the end , the main contractor was the West German company Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nurnberg , which completed the job in roughly two years . |
| 13 | The government was the first to do without an incomes policy , and the absence of ‘ norms ’ or ‘ targets ’ for incomes in nearly twenty years helped to take the issue of wages out of politics . |
| 14 | TWICE US Open champion and former teenage sensation Tracy Austin began a comeback yesterday by winning her first match in nearly nine years . |
| 15 | In the first round Austin , the 1979 and 1981 US Open champion and former world No1 , won her first match in nearly nine years . |
| 16 | Local academics and ecologists estimate that if it 's allowed to continue industrial fishing will exhaust the stocks in just five years from now . |
| 17 | Fifty films in as many years … all made in Britain . |
| 18 | This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al . |
| 19 | First , Sir Robin and his team had developed , and persuaded ministers to adopt , the most radical plan — the so-called Next Steps — for restructuring the Civil Service in nearly 150 years . |
| 20 | Erm that is an area where , that and road traffic accidents which has grown considerably in , in the time that I 've been in the service in more recent years , which has become more sophisticated , the equipment has become more sophisticated , the techniques have had to be developed to deal with them and firemen are becoming more expert in , in handling these er er situations with , with equipment er which is much more technical , and , and er |
| 21 | With DOUBLE PAYOUT , however , he enjoys a very reasonable level of cover and the pleasing prospect of a tax-free windfall in just ten years ' time . |
| 22 | Britain 's first world heavyweight champion in nearly 100 years he could be stripped of his title almost immediately . |
| 23 | A development in more recent years has been the recognition that some ‘ staff ’ management has become highly specialised in areas of work which form a fundamental part of line management , eg. in the fields of industrial relations and capital expenditure . |
| 24 | A study by US scientist Stephen Leatherwood in 1984 suggested that between 2600 and 3000 black dolphins had been taken for crab bait in only two years . |
| 25 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 26 | Conran Octopus and the RHS have previously collaborated on Hanging Baskets , Windows and Containers , which has sold nearly 200,000 copies in under two years . |
| 27 | A SURGE in American exports to record levels was responsible for a dramatic improvement in February 's trade deficit to the lowest level in nearly nine years . |
| 28 | Large companies in particular , have received extensive support when markets were expanding but they can also rely on financial support in less prosperous years . |
| 29 | This misconception has led many researchers in more recent years to discuss the apparent absence of evidence for members of the native population . |
| 30 | The plunge has wiped £1,000 billion off share values in barely three years . |