Example sentences of "in [num] year [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ask them in fifty years or so , |
| 2 | These blades are horribly sharp , so sharp in fact that one form has not needed sharpening in eight years and has cut around 200,000 straps ! |
| 3 | We have moved house five times in 12 years and although moving itself is stressful , I think what 's more difficult to cope with is the first month when all the foibles of the new house are discovered . |
| 4 | He is determined to lead his injury-stricken outfit to victory in France for the first time in 22 years and last night insisted : ‘ I 've had to fight for respect in rugby league . |
| 5 | Now I said to Ken that 'll be your christmas present to me in nineteen years and that 'll do me a treat cos that 's really worth it . |
| 6 | This was the Finaghy lads first fight at home in six years and you could almost feel seismic waves of anticipation as he came to the ringside . |
| 7 | ‘ The wettest August in six years and a record for rain in September have not diminished the chances of the finest crop to date . ’ |
| 8 | Barriers on textiles would be eliminated in 10 years but , to be eligible for preferential trade , most garments , under a " country of origin " clause , had to be produced from yarn made inside NAFTA . |
| 9 | It 's also the first major re-design of the spreadsheet in 10 years and it 's a vast improvement . |
| 10 | in 10 years and a great deal of that is due to higher productivity . |
| 11 | It recommends that all planning permissions for quarrying in national parks should expire in 10 years and that permission for dormant sites be removed , or at least reviewed — even though this would require compensation for the owners . |
| 12 | ‘ He will be out of prison in three years but I have to live with this , ’ she said . |
| 13 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but the rate is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 14 | CAR crime on Merseyside has dropped for the first time in three years but there is still one offence every 20 minutes . |
| 15 | Your August issue was the first of your magazines I have read in three years or so and what an improvement ! |
| 16 | Thus between 1966 and 1974 there were breeding season records from another 11 sites , of which three held birds in three years and four in two , making a grand total of 42 sites for which there were breeding season records between 1962 and 1975 . |
| 17 | Last week he walked upstairs for the first time in three years and just burst into tears . |
| 18 | It forecasts moving volumes in the low thousands in three years and wants to represent 10% of Opus ’ business . |
| 19 | I would like to avoid defeat partly as it would avoid the first league double against us in three years and to keep the unbeaten run together . |
| 20 | Until then , Cambridge had looked set to record only their second win in 17 years and to take the trophy for the first time since its introduction by the present sponsors in 1987 . |
| 21 | Couples married in the early 1950s produced the same family sizes in 4 years and 7.4 years respectively ( table 4.7 ) . |
| 22 | Only 40% thought that there will be a united Ireland one day but few expected it in the short term — 16% expected it to come about in 25 years , 13% in 50 years and 11% in 100 years . |
| 23 | The Socialist Party had not only suffered its worst election defeat in 25 years but also given every appearance of being in the process of disintegration . |
| 24 | The new law constituted the first major revision of the quotas of legal immigration in 25 years and ranked in importance with the Quota Act of 1921 , which established the first numerical restrictions , and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 . |
| 25 | The relatively simple geology of the Orkneys was completed in 3 years and the memoir appeared in 1935 . |
| 26 | The Elgin district was surveyed in 3 years and a descriptive memoir published . |
| 27 | ‘ I talk of things to be — whether they come in ten years or ten thousand . ’ |
| 28 | But I had to recognise that there have only been a couple of traumas in ten years and the trouble rate is likely to hot up as I move towards 40 . |
| 29 | ‘ She is now out of plaster for the first time in ten years and can get into a bath , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Three children to raise , two moves in ten years and an OU degree on top TEN years ' study is rewarded next Saturday when Mrs Catherine Goode graduates from the Open University . |