Example sentences of "within [adj] years he " in BNC.

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1 Within eight years he had fully repaid his creditors and accumulated a greater fortune than ever before .
2 A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council .
3 Within three years he had emigrated to the United States .
4 Within three years he had become the most successful muslin manufacturer in Britain .
5 From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court .
6 Within ten years he had conquered the other tribes along the Mad Dog Pass and subjugated the Night Goblin tribes that lived around and under Thunder Mountain .
7 He decided to brew a long-lasting , high quality version of this porter and within ten years he was exporting his ‘ Guinness Extra Strong Porter ’ to London .
8 The fragile democratic institutions of Weimar were not able to survive the sense of defeat , the recession and Hitler 's onslaught , and within fifteen years he was elected Chancellor .
9 It did n't last ; his alienation from England seems to have coincided with an alienation from Dorothy , for within five years he had a child by Olga Rudge .
10 One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care .
11 Within five years he had paid back every penny , and by 1960 his ships were making a good deal of money .
12 Within two years he had so firmly established himself that he was able to bring to Canada his wife and young son , Lyon , where they settled happily , first at Maberly , Ontario , then in Montreal , a home with more than a touch of aristocratic manners and style .
13 Within two years he and his supervisor , Harry Mark , had completed a controversial piece of work pioneering a way to measure the spectra of chemical reactions on the surface of an electrode .
14 Within two years he had designed and installed electrical repeater devices , indicating to signalmen the position of semaphore signal arms which were outside their range of vision ; an automatic device recording on tape the bell-code communications between signal-boxes ; and the first track circuiting in which the presence of a train on a section of track was indicated electrically in the signal cabin .
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