Example sentences of "[coord] four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company is expected to offer shares to its employees when it is allowed to do so , and a Stock Market flotation could follow in ‘ two , three or four years ' time ’ according to Mr Smith . |
| 2 | We have had that moulder now for three or four years and it has done a lot of work . |
| 3 | And three or four years later , in an essay that is still valuable inasmuch as it is a catena diligently culled from curious reading , Pound urges readers of The Egoist to pay attention to Ovid rather than ‘ the more Tennysonian Virgil ’ . |
| 4 | Repayments can also be spread over three years at an APR of 3.9 per cent , or four years at an APR of 6.9 per cent . |
| 5 | For the past three or four years , that finely-tuned body , that running , jumping and throwing machine , was flawed . |
| 6 | The most common period of time for this sort of agreement is three or four years , and the advances payable should reflect this . |
| 7 | He lacked the confidence that has come in the last three or four years to make decisions and stick to them . |
| 8 | We often find it takes three or four years before a youth is used to a regular life once more . |
| 9 | A production company has been set up at Pixar producing commercials and Lasseter is now predicting a fully computer-generated movie within the next three or four years . |
| 10 | It was the sort of relationship I had with my earliest girl-love , the tomboy Isa , when I was about three or four years old , described in The Only Child . |
| 11 | ‘ They know they have no option but to stay in the job and try and do better , but the harsh truth is that those who have high production costs and low productivity will not survive the next three or four years of rapid transition . ’ |
| 12 | The boy Paul , as she had called him , was about three or four years of age , crinkle haired but almost white . |
| 13 | Three or four years old , a mere toddler , a boy with golden curls gathering blue flowers . |
| 14 | The club 's travels up and down the four divisions in the last 18 years have helped , and he completed the full set of 92 grounds at Watford three or four years ago . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've always assumed that the country has enough water but the shortages of the last three or four years have shown this is not the case , ’ said Dr Neil Johnston , author of the report . |
| 16 | ‘ So if you believe that share prices look dangerously high after three or four years , you can decide to lock in to the rate you have picked . |
| 17 | ‘ But in America , these guaranteed equity funds have been enormously successful in the past three or four years , and I see can see that happening in Britain too . ’ |
| 18 | Dai Jenkin , a director at Gribble , Booth & Taylor , estate agents in Devon and Somerset , finds a growing number of British people who bought homes and went to live in France three or four years ago are now moving back to the West Country . |
| 19 | A London clinic specialising in reversal operations said yesterday that more than six out of 10 operations are now successful compared with fewer than two out of 10 only three or four years ago . |
| 20 | It is estimated by those in the health profession that within the next three or four years all those units that can become self-managing will have done so . |
| 21 | We are clearly in more difficult economic circumstances than three or four years ago . ’ |
| 22 | Steve McQueen had followed Dean west from New York after three or four years of casting-call line-ups . |
| 23 | The most recent Scandinavian and American research suggests that however long you live , serious ill-health is most likely to lie compressed into the last three or four years before death . |
| 24 | ‘ McCabe was probably my favourite at the time because he was so intense for three or four years . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm trying to recall if I 've ever set eyes on her ; I 've a vague memory of a plump wee lass at a cousin 's wedding three or four years back . |
| 26 | One rather strange anomaly is that such intercourse is legal between consenting male adults over the age of 21 , but is illegal between heterosexuals and is punishable by a large fine or four years in prison . |
| 27 | It was considered that the larger Devon found in Somerset formed a link to the big , powerful ploughing oxen of Sussex which , even in the mid-nineteenth century , were regarded also as valuable beef makers , worked only for three or four years before being turned over to the fatteners . |
| 28 | After three or four years , when its objectives are well on the way to being achieved , then this decision will be reconsidered . |
| 29 | development priorities for the coming three or four years . |
| 30 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |