Example sentences of "within [adj] years he had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within eight years he had fully repaid his creditors and accumulated a greater fortune than ever before . |
| 2 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 3 | Within three years he had emigrated to the United States . |
| 4 | Within three years he had become the most successful muslin manufacturer in Britain . |
| 5 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 6 | Within ten years he had conquered the other tribes along the Mad Dog Pass and subjugated the Night Goblin tribes that lived around and under Thunder Mountain . |
| 7 | It did n't last ; his alienation from England seems to have coincided with an alienation from Dorothy , for within five years he had a child by Olga Rudge . |
| 8 | Within five years he had paid back every penny , and by 1960 his ships were making a good deal of money . |
| 9 | Within two years he had so firmly established himself that he was able to bring to Canada his wife and young son , Lyon , where they settled happily , first at Maberly , Ontario , then in Montreal , a home with more than a touch of aristocratic manners and style . |
| 10 | Within two years he had designed and installed electrical repeater devices , indicating to signalmen the position of semaphore signal arms which were outside their range of vision ; an automatic device recording on tape the bell-code communications between signal-boxes ; and the first track circuiting in which the presence of a train on a section of track was indicated electrically in the signal cabin . |