Example sentences of "in [adv] [subord] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure of the second coup attempt against General Noriega in less than two years has disappointed and enraged some Panamanians who felt the US missed a golden opportunity to use its troops to dispose of the general , indicted by the Americans on drug-smuggling charges last year . |
| 2 | Besides , say the Liberal Club 's supporters , Civic Forum has a responsibility to carry out its programme and must continue to function until the next general election , in less than two years ' time . |
| 3 | Simple draughtproofing is relatively inexpensive and the initial cost can usually be recouped in less than two years . |
| 4 | Salomon Brothers , who trebled their staff to 600 in less than two years , had employed headhunters to help fill all their professional posts . |
| 5 | And while Syncordia has won around $100m of business in less than two years , it is still losing a pile of money . |
| 6 | But BT 's Syncordia , despite having snared $100m of business in less than two years , is still making heavy losses . |
| 7 | In less than two years of war , many thousands — some say many tens of thousands — have died . |
| 8 | Hey Harley , we 're actually quite proud of what USL has achieved in less than two years as a privately-held company . |
| 9 | In less than two years FEC acquired thirty-three Falcon 20 aircraft , the majority from Pan Am 's Business Jet Division . |
| 10 | In less than two years the packs could be used routinely for all children in local authority care . |
| 11 | The money has been raised in less than two years . |
| 12 | Lindsell feels that much progress has been made in less than two years — more , he admits , than he would have dreamt possible at the outset . |
| 13 | In less than two years , we have quickly demonstrated that the third of ICI that we represent is fully paid up ! ’ |
| 14 | Trading in sovereign loans grew from almost nothing to half a trillion dollars in less than five years . |
| 15 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 16 | Two sons , two daughters , born in less than six years , brought up in simple surroundings with no help . |
| 17 | Situated on the coastline of Omura Bay near the City of Nagasaki , the town of Huis ten Bosch covers an area of 1.5 million square metres and has risen from the ground in less than eight years . |
| 18 | Comparable conduct by non-police officers would surely have led , in less than four years , either to criminal charges or to punishment for contempt of court . |
| 19 | From six members , the company has grown in less than four years to a staff of more than 90 , and a base of more than 200 installed systems . |
| 20 | Urging the country to unite behind her after the trauma of the sixth uprising against her government in less than four years , Ms Aquino said she was determined not to allow ‘ any aggressor to wrest our freedom and democracy away from us . |
| 21 | It started in the USA and spread across the world in less than four years . |
| 22 | ‘ The fact is we 've all done for ourselves and in less than thirteen years . |
| 23 | Mantoux 's verdict — " in less than thirty years the whole face of England was furrowed with navigable waterways . |
| 24 | ( In less than fifteen years after their landing , Kit and his fellow colonists would be sailing further and further in search of wood to build their settlements and fuel their fires . ) |
| 25 | One thinks of the change in the course Of the Hwang-ho River in China , which in less than eighty years moved its mouth some 250 miles from way to the south of Shantung on the Yellow Sea up nearly to Tientsin on the Gulf of Pohai . |
| 26 | Sea level went up by 24 metres in less than 1,000 years , a rate of more than 24mm per year . |
| 27 | But its days were now numbered , as with the coming of the cement industry whatever remained was adapted or destroyed to build the factory which in its turn was to become derelict in less than 50 years . |
| 28 | This monster could be free , to possibly kill again , in less than seven years . |
| 29 | Projects need to be assessed over time ; there are very few whose benefits can be seriously assessed in less than ten years , and a period of fifteen to twenty years would be more meaningful . |
| 30 | In less than ten years the market for these potent desktop machines has grown from nothing into a global business with sales of $1.4 billion last year . |