Example sentences of "within [adj] years the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within fifty years the area was entirely built over with a population of nearly 70,000 . |
| 2 | ‘ Within 30 years the brewing industry has gone from a cottage industry to high tech . ’ |
| 3 | There were only 9 inhabitants of the hamlet called Porthmeor before the harbour was created , but within 10 years the population had risen to nearly 300 . |
| 4 | That is to say , within 100 years the human population will have quadrupled . |
| 5 | Work started immediately , and within three years the scheme was completed . |
| 6 | Within three years the company could have a complete range of hi-fi goods , based on its own radical designs , Szeliga says . |
| 7 | Within three years the couple were established in London where Lillie became celebrated , not only as a ‘ professional beauty ’ — a society woman whose photographic likenesses were on sale to the public — but as the mistress of Albert Edward , Prince of Wales . |
| 8 | However , within 5 years the new street works act should be operating properly which means that the planning and execution of all public utilities works will have far less effect on peak hour travel and congestion except for unplanned emergencies . |
| 9 | While any one group may cultivate two or three different gardens of varying ages at any one time , the nutrient stocks are rapidly depleted and within 3 years the plot is abandoned and secondary forest begins to reestablish . |
| 10 | Within five years the same railway contractors responsible for the spur line were actively pursuing plans to build a new dock system in the area . |
| 11 | ‘ If the trend continues , within five years the area with the fastest growing population in the province will have no acute beds at all , ’ said Mr Wilson . |
| 12 | Within twenty years the immense complexity of British power had been perfectly represented in the greatest station ever built in India , the remarkable Victoria Terminus in Bombay . |
| 13 | Within two years the volume of travel was higher practically everywhere in the world than it had been before the war . |
| 14 | Within two years the liquidators were called in and the company was wound up in 1987 . |
| 15 | Within two years the company will have mainframe-class machines based on many cheap CMOS processors , linked together by a high speed switch similar in concept to the RISC-based SP1 ( CI No 2126 ) . |
| 16 | Yet within two years the percentage of sub-£2 assessments jumped from a modest 39½ to more than 56 . |
| 17 | Within two years the New York market turned around . |
| 18 | By March 1918 this figure had dwindled to 78,000 , but within two years the number had more than doubled . |
| 19 | Within two years the choir was booked to sing at the Queen 's Hall in London , and a royal command performance soon followed at Balmoral . |
| 20 | Within two years the new Labour government found it necessary to appoint a Royal Commission to investigate the arrangements the Conservatives had put in place , and review the organisation of the NHS once more . |
| 21 | Within two years the Communist Party was to be foremost in advocating cooperation with leading Liberals . |
| 22 | Within two years the Cupar operation had doubled in size . |
| 23 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |
| 24 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |