Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [prep] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% . |
| 2 | I should perhaps explain that for many years it had been a regulation in UK registered public transport aircraft that when flying below 15 000 feet hand operated microphones were prohibited . |
| 3 | Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia . |
| 4 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
| 5 | ‘ Did n't you realise that after five years it is n't possible to claim on someone 's estate ? ’ |
| 6 | At the outset , a ‘ capital repayment holiday ’ of up to two years can be arranged — this means that for two years you only repay interest , reducing pressure on your cashflow . |
| 7 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 8 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 9 | The KNU president Gen. Bo Mya , in a letter to Saw Maung dated Nov. 30 , 1989 , said that after 40 years it had been " proven beyond doubt that the civil war , which is basically a political problem , can not be settled by military means " , and that " the most correct and suitable means of achieving [ the KNU 's ] political goals is the settlement of the civil war politically , in a just and rational manner " . |
| 10 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 11 | Richard has a wealth of experience in catering as for twenty years he was manager of a large company hotel . |
| 12 | The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners . |
| 13 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |