Example sentences of "in [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals . |
| 2 | In eight years he built his television services company , Carlton Communications , to a value of £1 billion . |
| 3 | Similarly , we were relying on the vastness of the oceans to dilute and disperse whatever bacteria and viruses allowed into them ; in 30 years we might be regretting it . |
| 4 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 5 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 6 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 7 | In 10 years we 'll be selling 20,000 . |
| 8 | Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’ |
| 9 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 10 | In three years they had rounded up fifty captive orangs . |
| 11 | The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent . |
| 12 | In three years they are full and have to be emptied and washed out . |
| 13 | In three years she would be sixty — and Alexandra would be twenty-four . |
| 14 | But they worked out in three years she 's put on seven stone because she eats . |
| 15 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
| 16 | But on the other hand I get $1000 a month tax free for five months every year , and so far in three years I have n't touched a cent of the money . |
| 17 | And if in three years you decided the performance was less than adequate , it would be worth you losing two percent to come out . |
| 18 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 19 | For the first time in 11 years you can get nearly two dollars for every £ because the American dollar is so weak . |
| 20 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 21 | In 3 years he launched 5 AI initiatives and identified 8 or 9 other possible applications . |
| 22 | In twenty-five years he had not been ‘ ten times in a tavern , eight times in a coffee house ’ . |
| 23 | But one day , as he sat by a mountain stream , he actually looked at a flower , and for the first time in ten years he realized how beautiful something living could be . |
| 24 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 25 | One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech . |
| 26 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 27 | In five years we 've had a record of seven per cent success in any enquiry involving the Regal Arms . |
| 28 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 29 | In five years it has built up a fleet of 65 lorries and 85 trailers , all of them leased . |
| 30 | In five years I never saw Harriet the worse for drink . |