Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same will be true of readers in two hundred years ' time , and before and after . |
| 2 | The student is therefore likely to study four different subjects in these two years , in up to four departments . |
| 3 | After negotiating a host of wars , coups and other crises in 38 turbulent years on the throne , the king is now showing the strain . |
| 4 | The opening of a score of nuclear sites in some six years by conventional administrative procedures alone was inconceivable . |
| 5 | The fruits of diversification will be clear even to the most sceptical observers in another few years , they claim , when the company 's new subsidiaries will help Mercedes build still better cars while the company 's ability to throw resources into fast-growing high-tech areas will give it an edge in those markets . |
| 6 | Inclusion of projects in these latter years also provides the programme with its substance , and gives the projects themselves their validity . |
| 7 | The English Church is about to make one of its biggest decisions in four hundred years . |
| 8 | Illingworth played birthday Tests in three successive years , 1971 , 1972 and 1973 , and May laid the foundations of a captain 's hundred in a losing cause on his birthday at the end of 1958 . |
| 9 | With pupils in lower secondary years their enjoyment of pretence is not yet impaired by age . |
| 10 | With two partners , he created a vast financial empire of over half a billion dollars in some six years . |
| 11 | As she endeavoured to come to terms with the realities of her marriage and royal life , there were moments in those early years when Diana sensed that she actually could cope and could make a positive contribution to the royal family and the wider nation . |
| 12 | SLIGHT GROWTH FOR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IN NEXT TWO YEARS |
| 13 | For , after less than 20 wickets in four lean years with Derbyshire , Taylor was part of the Staffordshire team that came to Northampton in the first round of the 1990 NatWest Cup to be plundered by Allan Lamb and company for the record total of 360-2 . |