Example sentences of "time in almost [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | HOPES of a rapid economic recovery were dealt another blow yesterday when unemployment rose to 2.7m for the first time in almost five years . |
| 2 | New Zealand 's quarrel with France over the Rainbow Warrior incident was formally ended when a French naval ship docked at Auckland for the first time in almost six years . |
| 3 | British Steel , which yesterday broke through the 100p barrier for the first time in almost two years , lost 3p today to 100p as investors became jittery that its recovery potential might not be as great as originally anticipated . |
| 4 | As right-wing supporters , many appearing in public for the first time in almost three years , welcomed their liberators with monarchist flags and fascist salutes , many other Spaniards faced a terrifying future : so terrifying , indeed , that to some suicide was preferable . |
| 5 | UNEMPLOYMENT in Britain has fallen for the first time in almost three years . |