Example sentences of "time [prep] the [num ord] [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | During 1950 , as much as two thousand million dollars were contributed , and that amount was increased eight times in the next ten years . |
| 2 | They chose their own governor every year , though as they re-elected Governor Bradford thirty times in the next thirty-five years their policy suffered no lack of continuity . |
| 3 | Beaten 16 times in the last 17 years over the 4 mile Putney to Mortlake course and virtually written off by the bookies , the Light Blues insist they can turn the tide . |
| 4 | Most herds are tested for TB every three years but the Rowes ' cattle have been tested 14 times in the last five years . |
| 5 | The government is not averse to pump priming book provision and has done this three times in the last six years , for the introduction of the GCSE examination , for acquisitions in university libraries and , most recently , for books for the National Curriculum . |
| 6 | The world production of sugar has increased by nearly thirty times in the last hundred years . |
| 7 | Martin Pipe has declared a powerful team for Monday 's Coral Welsh National , a race he has won three times in the last four years . |
| 8 | Yorick had attempted suicide three times in the last four years ; and the last attempt had nearly succeeded . |
| 9 | The scope of this immunity has been changed no less than six times in the last 20 years . |
| 10 | Such is his importance that in order for him to become a minister again , the Government invoked a short-cut used only three times in the last 300 years . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been second five times in the last three years and I 'm over the moon to have got home first at last . ’ |
| 12 | UNEMPLOYED Derek Auld has been made redundant three times in the last three years . |
| 13 | Smith , who has been jailed seven times in the last ten years , admitted driving with excess alcohol , while disqualified and without insurance . |
| 14 | The document , which was leaked to The Ecologist magazine , also states that the proportion of failures has multiplied by two and a half times over the last 10 years . |
| 15 | The house has changed hands many times over the last fifty years . |
| 16 | It was after this that Mrs Kelsall , a midwifery sister and joint team leader , embarked on a project that was to take up most of her free time for the next two years . |
| 17 | It was indulging in a relatively straightforward exercise in civil engineering which could have been undertaken at any time during the last 100 years or more . |
| 18 | Under section 265 the English court has jurisdiction , for example , over a debtor who is a foreign national who has never lived or been here so long as , at a time within the last three years , he was a member of a firm which carried on business in this country . |
| 19 | At some time within the next five years , the collection should be indexed and stored electronically or on microform . |
| 20 | Tim Reagan , a gaunt forty-year-old , who was a genius with trade unions as well as being an accountant and Peter Yeo 's right hand , moved swiftly through the secretarial problem , which was one of shortage of same , and seemed , as Peter Yeo observed pleasantly , to have been exactly the same difficulty any time in the last two years , to a discussion of building security , in which no one was much interested either . |
| 21 | The Foreign Secretary said : ‘ My right honourable friend knows that I have spent quite a lot of time in the last four years as Home Secretary , with his full support , trying to plug loopholes , trying to keep our immigration control strict and fair . |
| 22 | Er I think that 's wonderful , wonderful work they 've done , er they 're absolutely dedicated , they 've so much as spent all their time in the last four years working here . |
| 23 | The lady who ran Ruane 's office said the dispenser was giving them better coffee , better chocolate , than any time in the last nine years . |
| 24 | But in spite of all this it seems likely that during much of the nineteenth century this subterranean aspect of international relations was less important , and less prominent in the minds of both diplomats and policy-makers , than at any time in the last 300 years . |
| 25 | a a step back in time over the last five years of what has been delivering and there are many thousands of customers using in that manner . |
| 26 | You and I have had a great time over the last 32 years … most of the time . |
| 27 | … because the economic situation is now more serious than at any time over the last 25 years , the Government decided that resources must be released for investment and improving the balance of payments … |
| 28 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |
| 29 | Constanze was to spend a good deal of time over the next two years at Baden , where her husband often visited her . |