Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or you could stay another year at school or college and re-take the subjects you failed . |
| 2 | He said the terms should run concurrently so that she would serve four years . |
| 3 | Aslan 's spectacular claims that she could add eight years to the average lifespan by means of procaine injections started a spate of clinical trials during 1959–1960 , all of which were negative . |
| 4 | It is only two o'clock in the afternoon and already me and the boys have had more beer , sex , drugs and Nintendo than you 'll have all year , you sad f— ! |
| 5 | Mutiny by the men , and what could a Petty Officer do if the Ministry in Moscow determined that the sailors of the Storozhevoy should not be freed from their conscripted service after four years at sea , that they should serve another year , what could a Petty Officer to ? |
| 6 | Professionals do have indoor areas so they can jump all year round . |
| 7 | The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate . |
| 8 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 9 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 10 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 11 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |
| 12 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 13 | A standard monetarist prediction of that decision would have been that it would produce two years of boom , followed by growing inflation and balance of payments deficit . |
| 14 | Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute , who also favours increasing the exemption , accepts that it might take many years to reverse the effects of its shrinkage . |
| 15 | The names on the Warwickshire team sheet are changing , and Bob Cottam 's statement that it 'll take five years to get it right is looking accurate . |
| 16 | Well if she lasts another year and I 'll last another year , she 'll be older than me wo n't she ? |
| 17 | Addison Wesley our American college publisher as Michael mentioned th at the half-way stage their sales were eleven percent ahead of er , last year , and you may remember last year they had record sales and record profits and er they 're forecasting er something like fourteen percent a head by the year end in sales terms and they are expecting to maintain their their margins and last year was a very good margin indeed . |
| 18 | Well , the Mexico City earthquake if you will recall some years ago , buried a maternity hospital on the day of the quake . |
| 19 | It is also worth asking if you can contact last year 's customers ; there is no substitute for word-of-mouth recommendation , as the best colleges well know . |
| 20 | Erm we are still not going to enough we we need something like just over half a million to do all the schemes er which er and we could do next year and this Committee is going to have to decide there , which er town centres are actually going to be done and which are going to be erm left out . |
| 21 | Accepting that the calculations can take years to complete , he asked : ‘ If we can spend 10 years on an experiment , why ca n't you do these calculations ? ’ |
| 22 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 23 | As I explained in my statement on 27 November , I have undertaken intensive discussions with a wide range of major and conflicting interest groups on possible ways of reforming the Sunday trading laws for England and Wales , and they will continue next year . |
| 24 | Instead , for instance , of saying a plant was ‘ biennial ’ , it was explained that you plant the seeds this year and they will flower next year . |
| 25 | I says but you 'll find next year when we approach you with this declaration you 'll find it 's been changed to free passage and where will your argument be then ? |
| 26 | ‘ But we 'll invade this year , surely ? ’ said Lomas . |
| 27 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
| 28 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |
| 29 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 30 | But it can take 10 years for a material to get on the list while officials develop a standard , which specifies physical and chemical properties of materials . |