Example sentences of "within [adj] years of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around three in ten of those who reported paid work within 10 years of their first birth had returned to a different type of job that was likely to have been worse paid than the one they last held before the maternity . |
| 2 | As Clark ( 1986 ) points out , the project was considered to be a failure in both technical and economic terms within 10 years of its inception , not least because of resulting poor drainage , increasing soil salinity and excessive silting . |
| 3 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 4 | He was later promoted to depute director and within six years of his return , he found himself director of the newly-created Lothian Regional Council 's Education Department . |
| 5 | If this has to be done it must be ( for technical reasons ) within three years of his father 's death — by 30 May 1977 . |
| 6 | His letters , published within three years of his death , were widely read in Scottish homes . |
| 7 | Stalin had seemed immortal , but within three years of his death Khruschev had begun to demolish his myth . |
| 8 | The most notorious of these streets , Pimlico off Church Street , was a derelict slum within ten years of its building around 1820 , and by the 1870s it had to be demolished . |
| 9 | This type of mortgage is only available to those in non-pensionable employment , since , in order to secure the tax-free cash sum , contributions must be made to a personal pension plan , and is really only suitable for borrowers who are within 25 years of their preferred retirement date . |
| 10 | Coleman published little in his long life — all his works came out within nine years of his appointment as Professor . |
| 11 | Within twelve years of his entry into Parliament Disraeli had become the leader of the Tory Party in the House of Commons : an amazing achievement , due partly to an unforeseen political cataclysm , but in the main to sheer political skill , patience and courage . |
| 12 | As a rule , they tend only to be recommended for people starting a plan within five years of their retirement . |
| 13 | But Cnut was considerably more fortunate in the sources produced within 150 years of his death , for the explosion of literary activity which began shortly after the Norman Conquest , and which was to ensure that no future reign would be as badly documented as those of Cnut and his sons , also cast its light back to his period . |
| 14 | Now , within two years of its discovery , the snail 's survival is threatened by a Thames Water Authority scheme . |
| 15 | Where a licensing board has refused an application for a new licence in respect of any premises , the board shall not , within two years of its refusal , entertain a subsequent application for a new licence in respect of the same premises unless the board , at the time of refusing the first-mentioned application , makes a direction to the contrary . |
| 16 | The Meech Lake Accord , a package of amendments to the Canadian Constitution , collapsed on June 23 , having failed to achieve the necessary ratification by the legislatures of all 10 provinces within two years of its passage by the federal House of Commons ( on June 22 , 1988 ) . |
| 17 | ( 14 ) Section 104 of CA 1985 requires certain conditions to be met ( including an independent valuation and approval by an ordinary resolution of the company ) before a public company ( formed as such ) can ( within two years of its being issued with a certificate entitling it to do business under CA 1985 , s117 ) enter into an agreement to acquire a non-cash asset ( eg shares in the target ) from a subscriber to its memorandum of association which is equal in value to one-tenth or more of the company 's nominal share capital issued at the time or before a company is re-registered as a public company can ( within two years of the date of re-registration ) enter into such an agreement with a person who was a member on the date of re-registration . |
| 18 | Dušan withstood the eastern invaders both in 1345 and 1349 , but within thirty years of his death in 1355 most of his empire had been overrun by the Turks and Serbia awaited the coup de grâce , which came in 1389 with the defeat of Prince Lazar at Kosovo Polje . |
| 19 | In 1975–90 in Scotland 25% of children had grommets reinserted within four years of their first operation , and children have had grommets inserted up to 14 times ( data obtained from Scottish morbidity records , Information and Statistics Division , Common Services Agency , Edinburgh ) . |
| 20 | Within four years of his return , Nkrumah had emerged as the acknowledged national leader whose stature required a rapid acceleration in the political process . |
| 21 | Destined for a distinguished career in the Church of England he lost his hearing through illness within four years of his ordination . |
| 22 | Property passing on a death is defined in the Finance Act 1894 , as amended by the Finance Act 1969 , and includes : property owned absolutely by the deceased , property given away by the deceased within seven years of death , and property in which the deceased owned a limited interest within seven years of his death . |
| 23 | He further stipulated that the building was to be erected within seven years of his death , otherwise the trustees were authorised to apply the money to any other charitable purpose . |