Example sentences of "in [art] [num ord] four years " in BNC.

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1 In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours .
2 In the first four years of her marriage that life had been turned on its head , transformed out of all recognition .
3 J.W.B. Douglas ( 1973 ) found that children who have no stressful event reported in the first four years of life ( especially the third and fourth ) are much less likely to wet their beds than children who have experienced these events .
4 Mortality rates at this and similar institutions were astonishingly high : only 4,400 of the 15,000 admitted in the first four years lived to adolescence .
5 A higher income still was achieved in the first four years of Elizabeth , but the feudal revenue then fell back to between £12,000 and £14,000 per annum until 1598 , when an upward movement began once more .
6 Since 1977 , when a detailed inquiry into child deaths was instituted in Gwynedd , no children admitted for life threatening events in the first four years of life have subsequently died ( apart from two children with known epilepsy who have died during fits ) .
7 So only six pounds a month is actually going to get invested in his fund in the first four years .
8 So those two factors affect how much of the client 's premium buys units in the first four years .
9 O K , so those are the two factors that affect the allocation to units in the first four years .
10 It 's the type of client , life assurance clients are the type of client where the commission 's all come out in the first four years .
11 But you can see why if you 're selling inappropriately , if you sell someone for example , a savings plan , and they cash it in the first four years , and they do n't even get what they paid in it , how they 're going to be very annoyed , because from what they could see , they were getting a savings plan .
12 Two factors affect it in the first four years .
13 The decline was finally arrested in 1984 ; in the next four years the losses of the previous fourteen were made good !
14 Spending departments would be told how much they could spend in real terms in the next four years .
15 In the next four years Cody built some half-dozen aeroplanes , which he flew competitively with considerable success , winning four British empire Michelin trophies and other prizes .
16 Fields is confident that Prabhakar , who now directs ARPA 's $300-million microelectronics technology office , can run an agency whose budget is expected to quadruple to $1.4 billion in the next four years .
17 It has sold only two in the last four years .
18 The decision to put the technology division up for sale marks an about-turn for Chrysler which has spent more than $1billion in the last four years on its policy of diversifying out of cars into related areas .
19 The Foreign Secretary said : ‘ My right honourable friend knows that I have spent quite a lot of time in the last four years as Home Secretary , with his full support , trying to plug loopholes , trying to keep our immigration control strict and fair .
20 While all the leading players at the Masters have been asked about the prospects of the US regaining a title won by the British in the last four years , the Australians have been quietly asserting themselves .
21 Given that this competition — which Forest have monopolised in the last four years after playing in three of the last four finals , winning two of them — offered Brian Clough 's only route to Europe next year they appeared unusually indifferent .
22 The general trend in the last four years is towards a growing deficit .
23 In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences .
24 Martin Pipe has declared a powerful team for Monday 's Coral Welsh National , a race he has won three times in the last four years .
25 In the last four years , our revenue has climbed 1844% , operating earnings 1535% , cash flow 921% .
26 Two waves of innovation are relevant here : firstly , the permeation of Information Technology , particularly desktop publishing , across the curriculum in the 1980s and , secondly , the attempt in the last four years to position electronic , in the sense of non-print , publishing within the course .
27 Fosse believe that the Advantage system is the first such system to be designed specifically for tennis and says that it has been its most successful introduction into the game with over 200 installations in the last four years .
28 The district has been national finalists in the Britain in Bloom contest in the last four years and this has been achieved by the magnificent floral displays which can be seen throughout the summer months in our area .
29 They possessed a certain plausibility in as much as Richard could not have gone on crusade without first ensuring that his position as his father 's heir was fully and publicly recognized in the most formal manner possible , while everything about Henry 's policy in the last four years indicated that he was reluctant to make any such announcement .
30 " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . "
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