Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] year [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 2 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 3 | No doubt it appealed to his vanity and his ambition to be regarded as more than a mere fiddler ; but after a harrowing year it must have been a decision he bitterly regretted . |
| 4 | During the course of a single year I will use upwards of one thousand Biros , yet I have never actually worn one out . |
| 5 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 6 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 7 | Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise . |
| 8 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 9 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 10 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 11 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 12 | In a good year you may have done unnecessary work ; in a bad one the harvest could be safe whilst others are still struggling with their expensive machinery . |
| 13 | This was true enough : the Company needed to sell about £100,000 of goods a year in West Africa to carry on enough trade to cover its fixed costs for shipping and for its forts ; it was never able to manage this and in a good year it could only take about 6,000 slaves across , which might be worth £90,000 . |
| 14 | It 's impossible to judge exactly how many people will come in as a result of that and er , how much expenditure will be incurred because as you know we 're in a recessionary period and as you 've already heard there is concern about current trading , but I would hope that it would bring in er , something like a hundred and fifty thousand extra people , certainly in a good year I 'd expect more than that but really that 's about as much as I 'm prepared to say with some additional spending which will be incurred at Alton Towers . |
| 15 | An unsuccessful fishing is a most discouraging event to the dwellers in these remote western isles : hundreds leaving every year for the east coast ; when fortunate , they will be able to bring home with them , after clearing all expenses for board , etc. , more than enough to pay the rent of their crofts ; but in a bad year they may come away in debt to the curer . |
| 16 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
| 17 | In a few years he 'll have developed a big enough ass to occupy my chair . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 19 | In a few years I 'd be just like mammy , cleaning for toffs ; and I 'd have weans and it 'd be too late then , and my man 'd be just like daddy was before he died , working a' week and getting drunk on Friday nights and a' day Saturdays . ’ |
| 20 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 21 | But once the technology becomes more refined , I definitely think that in a few years you 'll have a lot of people who do n't touch chemicals at all . |
| 22 | But once the technology becomes more refined , I definitely think that in a few years you 'll have a lot of people who do n't touch chemicals at all . |
| 23 | " After all , in a few years you can leave the convent . |
| 24 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |