Example sentences of "in [adv] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man Utd today celebrated yet another championship triumph , their second in only 26 years , to continue their ‘ domination ’ of English football . |
| 2 | The US parent then hiked turnover at one of the subsidiaries from £6.7 million to £24.2 million in only six years . |
| 3 | In only six years it has become a significant nature reserve in its own right . |
| 4 | In only five years the Catholic population of the diocese of Dili has increased from 280,000 to 540,000 . |
| 5 | In fact , these videos are successful — we estimate our market share at 8 per cent , achieved in only five years . |
| 6 | With over eighty pits closed down , a work-force more than halved in only four years from 171,000 to just 80,000 , the emergence of a second , more conciliatory union , and above all , after the defeat of the National Union of Mineworkers in an historically lengthy strike , it just was n't an argument that held water . |
| 7 | In the year to June 1992 , 11-year-old Sun made a net profit of $173m on sales of $1.6 billion — a threefold increase in revenues in only four years . |
| 8 | in only four years ? |
| 9 | A study by US scientist Stephen Leatherwood in 1984 suggested that between 2600 and 3000 black dolphins had been taken for crab bait in only two years . |
| 10 | Levels of recorded crime certainly did shoot up in the years following the implementation of the 1933 Act , and the crime rate for boys under 14 years of age found guilty of indictable offences almost doubled in only three years . |
| 11 | After a period of very stable numbers between 1985–89 , the PCC will thus have seen its workload increase by 66 per cent in only three years , a trend which shows little sign of ending . |
| 12 | In only 12 years , Alan Campbell has developed a super-efficient , highly reputable , Internationally-acclaimed business affiliated ( as Trading Members ) to the British Institute of Freight Forwarders ' Association providing exporters with the knowledge that the company has indemnity insurance and operates with properly and highly qualified staff . |
| 13 | This is not a very remote county , but some districts still lost up to one-fifth of their population in only 20 years , roughly equivalent to the 17.6 per cent decrease that occurred in the population of the Scottish Islands during the same period ( Dunn et al . |
| 14 | erm There are indications that in perhaps twenty years ' time that there might be some novel applications of lasers . |
| 15 | According to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities ( UNFPA ) , the world 's population will stabilise at around ten billion in approximately 60 years from now . |
| 16 | why this week … well in exactly three years time the Olympic flame will be lit in Atlanta for the next games … and one of the new sports will be laser sailing … and all the boats are being built by the company in Banbury |
| 17 | In just two years Opren captured well over half the market for drugs to treat arthritis . |
| 18 | A STORE boss was sacked for taking 60 weeks sick leave in just two years . |
| 19 | Unemployment among 16 and 17-year-olds has DOUBLED in just two years to one in six , says a report today . |
| 20 | Unemployment among 16 and 17-year-olds has DOUBLED in just two years to one in six , says a report today . |
| 21 | Overall complaints about car boot sales have risen from virtually nil to around ten a week in just two years . |
| 22 | In just four years , Hutchins ' company has grown to become one of the major marketing and promotion companies in British tennis . |
| 23 | It is submitted that in just four years the Commissioner and her team have succeeded , to a great extent , in ironing out many of the initial difficulties which were encountered . |
| 24 | By this time the guitar had made its popular impact , and in just five years time it would be considered virtually the instrument of musical expression . |
| 25 | We 've come a long , long way in just five years . ’ |
| 26 | In just five years , between 1970 and 1975 , the amount released from the pipelines of one single radionuclide , caesium , had risen from 31,170 curies to 141,377 . |
| 27 | In just five years , the firm 's stockmarket value dropped by three-quarters . |
| 28 | Best , for example , argued that changes had been immense : " In just five years ( the NHS ) has been transformed from a classic example of an administered public sector bureaucracy into one that increasingly is exhibiting the qualities that reflect positive , purposeful management " ( Best 1987 : 4 ) . |
| 29 | Local academics and ecologists estimate that if it 's allowed to continue industrial fishing will exhaust the stocks in just five years from now . |
| 30 | Then there are the imports : 83,000 tonnes of toxic waste enter British ports annually for incineration or other treatment , a figure which has increased 20-fold in just eight years . |