Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [adv] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Local academics and ecologists estimate that if it 's allowed to continue industrial fishing will exhaust the stocks in just five years from now . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The plunge has wiped £1,000 billion off share values in barely three years . |
| 6 | Both accounts also demonstrate that as soon as this new configuration was established , Oppenheimer described it as ‘ technically so sweet ’ , and it was translated into practical terms in under two years , for the November 1952 ‘ MIKE ’ test . |