Example sentences of "[adj] years could " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I have said , we have seen enormous changes , but I advise my right hon. Friends on the Treasury Bench and all hon. Members who will continue to serve in Parliament in the coming years that the changes that have taken place in those countries in the past few years could well be repeated on an enormous scale in other countries . |
| 2 | They got fed up when there was one and only a party that has been out of power and living in blinkers for the past 12 years could possibly propose returning to a naked property tax . |
| 3 | The national institution of the past 60-odd years could soon be a distant memory . |
| 4 | But in future GMAG could be by-passed and the dialogue between GMAG and scientists , which has built over six years could be lost . |
| 5 | By 1922 the team of brilliant men who had governed for the past six years could not but see themselves as irreplaceable . |
| 6 | It is indeed hard to see how any Unionist leader in these years could have acted against such firm convictions to put the national interest first . |
| 7 | As a result , the performance in later years could very easily be enhanced . |
| 8 | The history of my birth is unclear because NHS records have now been lost , so doctors in later years could only guess at the cause of my disability which became evident a few week after I was born . |
| 9 | Unless they show an unprecedented degree of self-discipline , the economic disappointment of the past dozen years could slide past the point of no return . |
| 10 | But the rehabilitation centre which has been running for 21 years could be closed within the year . |
| 11 | The cancer was not eliminated , but its growth ceased , and for many years could be prevented from spreading to distant tissues as long as treatment with hormones continued . |
| 12 | The Department of Conservation estimated that 60–80 per cent of the dolphin mortalities of the previous 4 years could have been avoided by such restrictions . |
| 13 | Thank God her father had survived , but for how many more years could he go on , with only Rachel to inherit while Jamie hung around in the background , desperate to take the firm , simply to settle a childhood score ? |
| 14 | She assumed her sister was referring to getting into Cambridge , which she herself considered a poisonous , disreputable fantasy , and one unlikely ever to be fulfilled : the number of girls who had achieved Cambridge places from Battersby Girls ' Grammar in the last ten years could be counted on the fingers of one hand . |
| 15 | She could not have believed ten years could so alter two people . |
| 16 | Kenneth Clarke , when Home Secretary , announced the establishment of secure training centres where young people aged up to fifteen years could be sentenced for a period of up to two years . |
| 17 | The case was concerned with whether a child under the age of 16 years could be given contraceptive advice without the consent of her parents . |
| 18 | Benjamin Titford 's material and social success during a lifetime spanning 65 years could not match that of William the Undertaker , but he had done very well for himself , for all that . |
| 19 | In 1990 , men aged 65 years could expect to spend around six months of their 14.2 years of remaining life expectancy in residential care ; for women of the same age this figure was 1.1 remaining years , an amount greater both absolutely and as a proportion of total remaining life expectancy ( table III ) . |
| 20 | Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy . |
| 21 | The marvel of the Massinghams was that a lineage going back five hundred years could have produced so many generations of amiable nonentities . |
| 22 | Many melodies of the last hundred years could not possibly be made to fit into such a restrictive rule — in fact many of us would avoid the feeling of regularity and ‘ squareness ’ that such a classical scheme produces . |
| 23 | It was commonly accepted , both in Department A and Department B , that final years could be approached by first years for help ; staff were regarded as out of bounds . |
| 24 | House prices up by one-third over two years could spell disaster for those leaving Britain who sold but did not reinvest in the housing market before returning home . |
| 25 | Debt due for repayment within two years could be paid within five years , and debt due to be repaid over a longer period could be paid within eight years . |
| 26 | THE worst drought in Britain for 200 years could spell disaster for wildlife in some parts of the country , but locally , there is no cause for alarm — yet . |
| 27 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 28 | On the other hand , it is extremely useful to have universities , polys and colleges compared on an equal basis , particularly as in these days of cutbacks many , who in earlier years could have relied on a university place , may have to hedge their bets by applying to polys too . |
| 29 | The verderers ' familiarity with the district from earlier years could only serve them in a general way , for the woodland paths varied from season to season . |
| 30 | He neither sang nor danced , but with his six or seven years could already dominate both the public and his brothers . |