Example sentences of "[noun] in [adv] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still largely a cult figure in Britain , Rice has written 13 books in as many years under three different names . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Why should we worry when spacefarers have not suffered any serious harm in so many years of space travel ? |
| 4 | Fifty films in as many years … all made in Britain . |
| 5 | Much of the evening was taken up with reminiscences , talk of Edna 's family — particularly her fisherman brother , Bert — and the fact that Four Winds had changed hands four times in as many years . |
| 6 | Dempsey defended his title only six times in as many years and constantly snubbed black challenges , one interesting one appearing in the pages of the New York Times from a certain Prince Mohammed Ali Ibrahim of Egypt whose special weapon was a ‘ pyramid punch ’ ( 4 March 1924 , p. 14 ) . |
| 7 | Tony Wright will be the third captain in as many years . |
| 8 | This was a strange rare way of conserving a Corps : perhaps it was a Pickle , as for Beefe , whose Saltness in so many years the Lead might sweeten and render insipid . |
| 9 | There had been three deaths in the family in as many years . |
| 10 | Its the third time in as many years that the John Radcliffe Hospital has postponed non emergency operations … last year it was because of the Gulf War … |
| 11 | It would have been a public retirement , however — the first printing of the book was 6,000 copies , and it went through eleven impressions in as many years . |