Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | So here you have no revision under naive expectations we have four right Now the the closer that our expectations come to gamma , lies to one the more weight farmers attach to last years price relative to prices in T minus two , T minus three , T minus four right . |
| 2 | And we do not need to undergo years of psychoanalysis , or visit a hypnotist , or meditate for twelve hours a day , in order to seek self-knowledge . |
| 3 | Not only would their number have to be increased but they would also need to undergo years of specialized training for which they would expect a commensurate reward . |
| 4 | Furthermore , a landlord can not be expected to spend years chasing after a tenant in order to avail the tenant of the proceeds of sale . |
| 5 | Even where communities have got together to build a school themselves , under an agreement with the government , they have sometimes had to wait years before the government sends teachers to staff it . |
| 6 | ABBA MAY HAVE HAD TO WAIT YEARS , but the Right Said Fred tribute industry is starting up early . |
| 7 | In some cases it was going to take years . |
| 8 | Given that the sanctity of the Irish family is rigidly built into the Irish constitution , it was going to take years to break down and change the incredible legislative and political barriers . |
| 9 | I do n't , I honestly do n't know what the answer is with the National Health but it 's going to take years and years and years . |
| 10 | To deal with this , a group of merchants who wanted to trade in a particular part of the world would ask the monarch for a charter allowing them a monopoly of bringing goods from their chosen region into England , giving them rights to defend themselves against pirates and bandits with their own armed force , and letting them settle legal problems that would otherwise have to wait years until they got back to England . |
| 11 | In the first chapter we discussed the problems of the application backlog , where user departments may have to wait years for the implementation of systems . |
| 12 | As composite seven points out , when our members are injured or made ill by their work , they should not have to wait years for compensation , we need a system which is swift , fair and comprehensive . |
| 13 | They are told that their children will have to endure years of wandering in the wilderness , suffering because of the faithlessness of their parents , until , God tells them , ‘ … the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness ’ . |
| 14 | But while such consideration may present a practical obstacle , they impose no limit on the imagination of VR 's innovators to speculate on its possibilities ; possibilities they believe to lie years rather than decades away . |
| 15 | There is no record of who owns what in the area of mining rights ; thus a mining company may have to spend years discovering to whom it has to pay royalties even after it has ascertained that a piece of Britain contains valuable metals . |
| 16 | So , why bother to spend years jumping over the BCS hurdles ? |
| 17 | Overall the ‘ Mighty Shovel ’ is of rugged construction and is intended to survive years of hard use . |
| 18 | Although they have chosen to deal with personal dilemmas , the songs in Mama Mozambiki can also be seen as metaphors for what is happening in a nation struggling to overcome years of civil war fuelled by South African destabilization . |
| 19 | Although they have chosen to deal with personal dilemmas , the songs in Mama Mozambiki can also be seen as metaphors for what is happening in a nation struggling to overcome years of civil war fuelled by South African destabilization . |
| 20 | ‘ I like to think that I have a lot to offer as well and I do n't want to have to wait years before I get the opportunity to prove myself . |
| 21 | These included the possibility of building study skills systematically into a PSD course to be extended to cover years 1–5 , the possibility of extending the IS provision to include study skills in years 1–3 , and the possibility of a new , totally free-standing study skills course . |
| 22 | Expenditure was relatively high not because of extravagant socialist schemes , but because the labour group attempted to overcome years of neglect by providing basic needs for a rapidly increasing population . |
| 23 | You have to spend years and years working off the initial residue of suspicion and diffidence before you 're even out of the red , let alone seeing any positive return for your efforts . |