Example sentences of "[adj] years [unc] [noun] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
2 | Basically , however , secure tenants of three years ' standing can buy their houses at discounts ranging from 33 per cent of market price to a maximum of 50 per cent . |
3 | And we 're always revising that picture of the past , in other words , somebody else in twenty-five years ' time will have to do a different kind of social history . |
4 | Sam starts humming the riff from ‘ Caroline ’ with a fondness that nine years ' respite should have erased , and then snaps back into historical mode . |
5 | His surgeon has said that two years ' rest may improve the problem significantly . |