Example sentences of "within [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | If an order under this subsection is complied with , the licensing board shall not make a further order within the six years following the first-mentioned order . |
| 2 | Jackson was the first Presidential candidate , 1988 , to plead and repeat the plight of 650,000 American farmers losing their farms within the eight years of Reagan 's reign . |
| 3 | This is because earnings within the 13 years prior to retirement can be used for working out tax-approved maximum benefits . |
| 4 | Despite opposition to their plans from many independent experts , the commission says the angle is likely to be reduced by as much as half a degree within the two years . |
| 5 | This provision is subject to the bankrupt not having been bankrupt previously within the fifteen years prior to the adjudication ( Sched 11 , para 13(1) and ( 2 ) ) and to an application by the official receiver under the equivalent of s 279(3) ( ibid , para 13(3) ) . |
| 6 | In short , Winckelmann epitomizes an intimate relationship between classical scholarship on the one hand and living culture and thought on the other.And in this he was renewing a tradition which had once existed ( albeit primarily outside Germany ) : the Renaissance tradition , which had weakened during the intervening centuries , and which was to lapse again almost beyond recall within the hundred years after his death . |
| 7 | If none of the capital is withdrawn within the five years , then all the interest is tax free . |
| 8 | There was no significant difference in the rate at which AIDS progressed in the two groups ; about 8 per cent in each group had died within the three years . |
| 9 | It includes people who were domiciled in the United Kingdom on or after 10 December 1974 and within the three years immediately preceding the relevant time . |
| 10 | The tenth nuclear power unit is to start operating in India in the next few months , with the country aiming for a nuclear part with a total of 16 units within the coming years . |
| 11 | As outlined in para 3.3 below , the City Code applies to takeovers of certain categories of private companies ( broadly where the equity share capital has been to some extent publicly held at any time within the ten years prior to the offer ) . |
| 12 | The exemption does not apply if the equity share capital of the private company has been to some extent publicly held at any time within the ten years prior to the offer . |
| 13 | The ‘ doubling time ’ , defined as the taken for the number of theses per year to double , is somewhere between 12 and 15 years , so that within the 24 years covered by the present study , the population has only doubled once . |
| 14 | Within a hundred years , Kepler resolved these by translating the planetary orbits into ellipses with the sun at a focus of each ellipse . |
| 15 | So within a hundred years , man learnt to make recordings of sound with sufficient fidelity to fool the human ear — at least , sounds that did not come from several different points in space at the same time . |
| 16 | Within a hundred years the town had grown westwards and in 1256 Henry III granted land outside the walls for , new planned extension to the borough . |
| 17 | Within a hundred years Islam was " a mighty empire stretched form the Punjab to the Pyrenees and from Samarkand to the Sahara , " In the authority of the Shahs . |
| 18 | Other nomads erupted from the deserts of Arabia in the seventh century ; within a hundred years their armies had reached the shores of the Atlantic and the borders of China but , in fascinating contrast to the Huns and Mongols , the Arabs created a new and enduring civilization and founded a faith which today numbers six hundred million adherents . |
| 19 | Within a hundred years of the missionaries ' arrival many English men and women had enthusiastically adopted the monasticism which was considered the purest form of the Christian life and the surest way to salvation , and which had spread throughout western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries . |
| 20 | Within a dozen years Philadelphia , its capital , was among the half-dozen largest English towns in North America and , although it had a population of only a few thousand people , very few towns in England apart from London were much larger . |
| 21 | Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 . |
| 22 | The plan ( see Guitart 1981 ; RENFE 1980m : 53–67 ) was expected to create 50,000 permanent new jobs and aimed to put RENFE on a par with the best European railways within a dozen years . |
| 23 | At its very inception , the world was hot , but within a billion years of its origin , parts of it at least were at the kinds of temperatures in which complex organic chemistry could take place . |
| 24 | However , if excavations do not take place the cemetery and its treasures are likely to be destroyed by ploughing within a few years . |
| 25 | But , as Action on Smoking and Health predicted that within a few years the majority of companies will have smoking policies , Roger Stubbs , deputy managing director of MORI , warned a confrontation is looming between ‘ green consumers ’ and ‘ smoking civil libertarians ’ who insist aggressively on their right to smoke in public places or at work . |
| 26 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ His former students will within a few years of graduation be earning a salary twice that of his , ’ the report says . |
| 28 | Yet , within a few years , the whole affair had degenerated into a foodies ' free-for-all . |
| 29 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 30 | A short cork is perfectly adequate for a wine destined to be drunk within a few years . |