Example sentences of "[conj] in years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Miss Kenton , if you for one moment believe I have time on my hands , that displays more clearly than ever your great inexperience , I trust that in years to come , you will gain a clearer picture of what occurs in a house like this . ’ |
| 2 | Was n't it possible that in years to come she and Susan , doomed to loneliness themselves , might feel very glad that they had done their best to make someone else less lonely ? |
| 3 | I do believe that in years gone by they paid the annual rent for Low Birk Hatt by spinning and knitting . |
| 4 | I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration . |
| 5 | In my annual report to the Authority in May 1988 — and ILEA is the only LEA which receives an annual report from its Chief Inspector — I commented on the implementation of the ISS curriculum proposals , that in years four and five science should be compulsory ; at least one arts course should be followed ; and a technical subject should be a compulsory option . |
| 6 | Thinking that in years of spray-painting , of darting about near the police and taunting them with their nearness , they had been caught only when they wanted to be . |
| 7 | Then , when we went upstairs , he says to me , Mary , he says , first time he called me that in years , Mary , why is it all my life I 've always got the timing wrong ? |
| 8 | Professor Mathias correctly sees the high demand of the war years for cereals as keeping agricultural wages up with prices , but they started from such a low level that in years of scarcity like 1795 and 1801 they could hardly have sustained life . |
| 9 | This is less satisfactory for the vendor , however , as it will remain liable as tenant of the landlord and there is a risk that in years to come the purchaser may be unable to pay the rent . |
| 10 | Anne is hoping that in years to come they 'll be just as many grandchildren to keep her on her toes . |
| 11 | Of course the apparent benefits to the region are offset by the inevitable losses in jobs and the suspicion that in years , perhaps months , the company will not be able to sustain two major broadcasting centres and that Newcastle will become little more than a satellite of Leeds . |
| 12 | Yeah so I mean with , with younger people it 's , although th they 're still not , it 's still not going to be easy-easy er like with the older people , there 's still the , the disturbance element that in years to come they are not going to have this to fall back on because by the time that they retire it 's just not going to exist . |
| 13 | If we fail to take this opportunity Mr Mayor , as I as I feel we are about to do I am a hundred percent convinced that in years to come people will look back at this year , or however long it happens to be and say they missed out on a golden opportunity to make social , to make more houses and to make social housing better in this city and across the country . |
| 14 | For a longer period than in years gone by they can expect to be on their own together . |
| 15 | The population under study is not dispersed at random across the map but consists of individuals who conceive of themselves as belonging to enduring groups which have continuity in a time scale measured in generations rather than in years . |
| 16 | Europe has a destiny to fulfil , and in years to come it will become apparent that the best Europe is one which rejects interventionist mediocrity in favour of a European Community which will deliver the promise of a higher standard of living and political pre-eminence so justly deserved by all Europeans . |
| 17 | And in years and years to come you 'll be all alone and useless and you 'll think ‘ Perhaps I should have helped Masklin when he asked me , ’ and then you 'll think , ‘ If I had my time all over again , I would have helped him . ’ |
| 18 | Tango Golf is now undergoing restoration by the Aircraft Restoration Company ( ARCO ) at Duxford ( FP May , p58 ) and in years to come may fly alongside Bravo Golf , making a rare — if not unique — ‘ Messerschmitt ’ pair in the air . |
| 19 | And in years gone by , I understand that some of it was used to electrocute the criminals . |
| 20 | But in years 4 and 5 , the years that in other schools would be devoted to working for the GCSE with continuously assessed course-work , and when the TVEI scheme would also be introduced , we are told nothing whatever about examinations , only that the pupils will not have a wide choice of subjects . |
| 21 | Is n't that , meant we , we say that I know time goes on but in years they took to pay the loan . |