Example sentences of "in [art] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the four years after John D. Rockefeller in 1882 combined 40 oil companies into the Standard Oil Trust ( begetter of Exxon , still the world 's biggest oil company ) , scale economies cut refining costs by two-thirds . |
| 2 | In the four years since we looked at the Subaru estate , it 's gone upmarket with a bang . |
| 3 | Stock , Aitken and Waterman 's achievements in the four years since they had joined forces were — even in an industry known for its hyperbole — sensational . |
| 4 | The simplest reason for the disappointing subscription is that the novelty of a kitchen maid poet had dissipated in the four years since the first subscription , especially among the gentry around Brackley who might now observe Philip Leapor enjoying the fruits of the first volume . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , he saw no reason to delay other measures in the package : ‘ We have , after all , made extraordinary progress in the four years since these proposals were listed in the White Paper as part of the programme required for the Single Market . |
| 6 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 7 | It did well enough , though might have done better if it had covered less ground ; also , in the four years that had elapsed since gathering material for it , public interest in the world role that Americans had taken up in the Kennedy years had largely evaporated . |
| 8 | In the four years 1522–5 the King may have got as much as £100,000 per annum from forced loans and subsidies , but his foreign adventures were brought to a sudden and ignominious halt by the refusal to pay the ‘ amicable grant ’ . |
| 9 | Clerical taxes levied by the king throughout his reign totalled some £300,000 of which , again , almost a third was raised in the four years 1294–7 . |
| 10 | Currently housed in a 36″ tank and shortly to be installed in a 48″ tank , My Piranha , affectionately known as Igor , has lost none of his brilliantly coloured red belly in the four years I have had it . |
| 11 | The issue in this appeal is whether profits accruing to the taxpayer company , HK-TVB International Ltd. in the four years of assessment 1980–81 to 1983–84 arose in or derived from Hong Kong . |
| 12 | No father ( of a case or control ) had accumulated a recorded dose of more than 5 mSv before his child was conceived , and no father had been monitored at any time in the four years before his child was conceived . |
| 13 | No fathers were monitored for exposure at around the time of their child 's conception , or in the four years preceding their child 's conception . |
| 14 | Although they were still only in their teens , the two young Annamese had undergone a drastic change in appearance in the four years since the Sherman family had watched them gambolling around the cooking tent of their father , Ngo Van Loc , the hunting camp " boy " of Jacques Devraux . |
| 15 | The Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939 , however morally repugnant , did at least provide the USSR with a breathing-space in which military preparations could be accelerated ; the pact , however , was broken off in June 1941 when German forces invaded the USSR 's western borderlands , and in the four years that followed the USSR lost over 26 million citizens and suffered material damage on an unimaginable scale . |
| 16 | A little later , in the four years 1776–80 , over 42,000 men deserted from the British navy ; and there is no reason to suppose that this was an unusual number by contemporary standards . |
| 17 | In the four years they had been separated , she had seen her husband only twice , and both times had been quite by chance . |
| 18 | Indeed , in the four years to 1991 , the company supplied The Journal every month at no cost to the RIBA membership , other than that of the distribution to overseas members . |
| 19 | In this case it was a book , entitled ‘ Andrew and Fergie — the newly weds ’ , this was handed over to for her good attendance in the four years which she had gone to Little Stonham Primary School . |
| 20 | In the four years to 1987 , that picture had not changed much ; the figure had grown slightly to 1,337 . |
| 21 | Two A-320s had crashed previously in the four years since the aircraft went into operation . |
| 22 | Carden is Europe 's most northerly commercial vineyard and in the four years since it opened has already established itself in the wine market . |
| 23 | Whereas land sales were expected to bring in seventy eight million pounds in the four years of nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety , and nineteen ninety two to ninety three , it now seems the figure will only be about thirty six million , less than half that original estimate . |