Example sentences of "[noun sg] in the [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said , there was a massive increase in business investment in the three years up to 1989 . |
| 2 | England had probably lost in international importance during the fifteenth century , partly because of her defeat in the Hundred Years War , partly because of the success of the Habsburgs in building up their empire on the basis of dynastic marriages . |
| 3 | But VMI 's lawyers suggested at the court hearing that West Point has ‘ gone soft ’ , that its discipline records show a pattern of sexual tension in the 15 years since women were admitted — and that these have led to ‘ substantial , deep-seated problems . ’ |
| 4 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 5 | Right well it will give you er I will go away and work these plans out but one that comes to mind is where there 's er a life cover but it 's a low level of life cover so you have more of an investment erm more of th more of your contributions goes towards the investment so that you get the bigger return in the ten years when you need it . |
| 6 | Britain 's most significant land battle in the Seven Years War , at Minden in 1759 , had involved 4,400 infantry . |
| 7 | The alternative to keeping quiet about these problems is , of course , to deny their very existence , and the prize for the most successful campaign of VD eradication , or alternatively the rarest piece of dissembling , must go to Communist China which claims to have got rid of syphilis in the ten years after 1950 . |
| 8 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 9 | There were fourteen changes of seneschal in Gascony during these eighteen years , while under Edward , as king , only six changes took place in the twenty-two years from 1272 to 1294 . |
| 10 | The analyses support the idea that the relocation of farms occurred quite frequently , with a considerable horizon of shifting settlement taking place in the 100 years around AD 700 , for nearly all early Anglo-Saxon settlements appear to have been abandoned during that period . |
| 11 | The first took place in the ten years between 1895 and 1905 . |
| 12 | While they were accustomed to being absolute rulers in Hanover they realized that being King of England was more important than being Elector of Hanover and they spent most of their time in England , but they never felt entirely at ease in the forty-six years during which they ruled in London . |
| 13 | The two major attempts at reform in the ten years before Mrs Thatcher , the reform of the House of Lords in 1969 and Scottish and Welsh devolution in 1978 , were both conspicuous failures . |
| 14 | Phillip King has attracted surprisingly modest attention in the ten years since his retrospective exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1981 but , as Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art until 1990 , he has shaped the styles of his students and of artists such as Richard Deacon , who had left the college before his arrival . |
| 15 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
| 16 | With its establishment in the Seven Years War as an integral part of the war effort at sea their victory became decisive . |
| 17 | The spread of poverty in the eight years has strained the whole nation , and widened misery and disadvantage amongst the old and young . |
| 18 | Although they were still only in their teens , the two young Annamese had undergone a drastic change in appearance in the four years since the Sherman family had watched them gambolling around the cooking tent of their father , Ngo Van Loc , the hunting camp " boy " of Jacques Devraux . |
| 19 | GE 's record in the ten years since this restless Irish-American became the company 's chief executive at the early age of 45 is impressive , especially considering GE 's size and diversity . |
| 20 | The evidence in the two years since he took over at the club suggests Mr O'Neill 's best efforts will be enough to secure promotion from the GM Vauxhall Conference . |
| 21 | Pakistan also have strong support from ex-Test stars from other countries such as Australia 's respected former captain , Richie Benaud , who says : ‘ On the opening day of the final Cornhill Test I was privileged to witness some of the finest swing bowling in the 44 years that I 've been in the game . |
| 22 | The number of people without work rose more rapidly , and to a higher level in the two years following 1979 than at any other time during the post-war period . |
| 23 | Roderick et al report that both the study of the Joint Matriculation Board ( JMB ) candidates who entered Sheffield University in the three years between 1975 to 1977 , and the study involving 17 English Universities , demonstrate that there is an exceptionally high dropout rate and failure rate in relation to unqualified mature students . |
| 24 | One of the latter is a book that has become a favourite in the two years since it first appeared in hardback form . |
| 25 | ( ii ) The applicant will need to have the following experience : ( a ) Personally run at least 36 medical negligence cases over the previous 3 years ; and ( b ) had at least three cases set down and ready for trial in the three years prior to panel application . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , he saw no reason to delay other measures in the package : ‘ We have , after all , made extraordinary progress in the four years since these proposals were listed in the White Paper as part of the programme required for the Single Market . |
| 27 | Accordingly they forecast a decline in demand in the thirteen years after 1982/83 of around 25 per cent rather than around 35 per cent as implied by the general demographic decline ( see Jones , 1981 ) . |
| 28 | His article argued that nuclear-generated electricity could n't realistically replace oil and fossil fuels unless all nations built sixteen new reactors a week in the five years from 1995 , a programme impossible to achieve and one which , if practicable , would add intolerably to the nuclear threat . |
| 29 | In the context of declining overall membership ( a 29% drop in the twenty years to 1990 ) and a reduction in the number of ministers ( down 16% in the twenty years to 1990 ) this was an encouraging sign which the denomination would do well to learn from . |
| 30 | But , in support of the maternal depletion syndrome , perhaps contrary to popular belief , it appears from these data that a baby has better chances of being born alive to a woman in the 40–44 years age group if it is the first than the sixth or a higher order . |