Example sentences of "within a [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other nomads erupted from the deserts of Arabia in the seventh century ; within a hundred years their armies had reached the shores of the Atlantic and the borders of China but , in fascinating contrast to the Huns and Mongols , the Arabs created a new and enduring civilization and founded a faith which today numbers six hundred million adherents . |
| 2 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 3 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 4 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 5 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 6 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
| 7 | Within a few years it had evolved into the ASEA , and by 1909 there were seventeen affiliated committees in London and ten in the provinces . |
| 8 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 9 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 10 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
| 11 | Merceron 's political career began in 1787 , and within a few years he had became a vestryman , a tax commissioner , and a justice of the peace . |
| 12 | Cavan 's biggest problem is tradition according to Reilly , so much so that if a manager does n't deliver the goods within a few years he 's gone and a new one comes along . |
| 13 | The first adult Scout troop formed was the 1st Duke of Grafton 's Own ( Clapham St. Bede 's ) which was formed in 1913 , and within a few years there were also Scouters and Guiders established in London at West Ham , Green Lanes ( St. John of Beverley 's ) , North Clapham and Stoke Newington . |
| 14 | Yet within a few years she won the County Bronze and Silver Championships in two successive seasons , almost certainly a unique feat . |