Example sentences of "[adj] in [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there are the imports : 83,000 tonnes of toxic waste enter British ports annually for incineration or other treatment , a figure which has increased 20-fold in just eight years . |
| 2 | Man Utd today celebrated yet another championship triumph , their second in only 26 years , to continue their ‘ domination ’ of English football . |
| 3 | Many Japanese companies face cash shortages because of plunging profits during Japan 's recession , the worst in nearly 20 years . |
| 4 | I see forty thousand in how many years ? |
| 5 | In Kenya 20,000 black rhinos were reduced to 500 in under ten years . |
| 6 | The suspicion is that the fall in numbers , by perhaps ten in as many years , is due to poaching . |
| 7 | In the absence of any sustained historical research into football in this period , it is not possible to say how frequent or how violent these occasions were , or to arrive at a balanced comparison between football disorders in the 1920s and 1930s as against those in more recent years . |
| 8 | According to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities ( UNFPA ) , the world 's population will stabilise at around ten billion in approximately 60 years from now . |
| 9 | There has been a wealth of studies on the use of the traditional catalogue , over 50 in as many years , yet in spite of the evidence it would appear that little is really known about the users for whom it was intended . |
| 10 | The guarantee that the material will be available in even 100 years seems the most difficult of these three challenges . |
| 11 | PEKING — Having dumped two heirs apparent in under three years , Deng Xiaoping yesterday moved to buttress the shaky position of yet another set of hand-picked successors by announcing that they , not he , were now running China . |
| 12 | The fact that my attitude to this same suggestion underwent a change over the following days — indeed , that the notion of a trip to the West Country took an ever-increasing hold on my thoughts — is no doubt substantially attributable to — and why should I hide it ? — the arrival of Miss Kenton 's letter , her first in almost seven years if one discounts the Christmas cards . |
| 13 | The US parent then hiked turnover at one of the subsidiaries from £6.7 million to £24.2 million in only six years . |
| 14 | The refusal , the third in as many years , is a symbolic trial of strength indicating the political balance of power within the WHO . |