Example sentences of "in [num] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals . |
| 2 | In eight years he built his television services company , Carlton Communications , to a value of £1 billion . |
| 3 | It 's the third time in 2 years his house has been raided and the second in the space of a week . |
| 4 | And there 's also something else that I forgot to bring up and that is that they 're trying to find new ways of removing the gases , and they reckoned that in 2 years there 's going to be an electrical method , an electrical filter , and the lab is 99% efficient . |
| 5 | Similarly , we were relying on the vastness of the oceans to dilute and disperse whatever bacteria and viruses allowed into them ; in 30 years we might be regretting it . |
| 6 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 7 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 8 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 9 | In 10 years we 'll be selling 20,000 . |
| 10 | Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’ |
| 11 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 12 | In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs . |
| 13 | The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent . |
| 14 | In three years they are full and have to be emptied and washed out . |
| 15 | We want to swap our nice , two-bedroom bungalow near the Essex coast for somewhere nearer Herts or Sussex yet in three years there has n't been a decent inquiry . |
| 16 | In three years she would be sixty — and Alexandra would be twenty-four . |
| 17 | But they worked out in three years she 's put on seven stone because she eats . |
| 18 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
| 19 | But on the other hand I get $1000 a month tax free for five months every year , and so far in three years I have n't touched a cent of the money . |
| 20 | And if in three years you decided the performance was less than adequate , it would be worth you losing two percent to come out . |
| 21 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 22 | For the first time in 11 years you can get nearly two dollars for every £ because the American dollar is so weak . |
| 23 | So in a sense , in 80 years nothing has changed — yet clearly everything has . |
| 24 | The main political event of the year to June 1991 was the general election in March , in which the opposition KESK gained the largest number of seats ( 55 out of 200 ) and went on to form the first Finnish government in 25 years which did not include a left-wing party . |
| 25 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 26 | In 3 years he launched 5 AI initiatives and identified 8 or 9 other possible applications . |
| 27 | In twenty-five years his tally reached 400 . |
| 28 | In twenty-five years he had not been ‘ ten times in a tavern , eight times in a coffee house ’ . |
| 29 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 30 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |