Example sentences of "[conj] [art] [adj] years [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And I like to think in fifty or a hundred years ' time it will not be possible for any orchestra to play sloppily and claim that it is not possible to do better . |
| 2 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
| 3 | And this is my personal view , as you know I think that people see , er , Freud completely differently in fifty or a hundred years ' time . |
| 4 | The defective article might still be in the manufacturer 's possession three years after the date of manufacture , and he might sell it later , but no one would have the hardihood to suggest that the three years ' limitation had already cut off all right of action before he had sold it . |
| 5 | Two R-A-F bases with more than a hundred years ' service between them have closed as part of defence cuts . |
| 6 | Later , in the eighteenth century , it also kept aloof from the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1741–48 ) and the Seven Years ' War ( 1756–63 ) . |
| 7 | In Indonesia , in October 1990 , post-graduate researcher Bonar Tigor Naipospos was sentenced to eight and a half years ' imprisonment because he ‘ attempted to undermine Indonesian state ideology ’ through participation in a university study group and distributing banned literature . |
| 8 | Kenneth Tindall , 20 , of Woodvale Road , Grove Hill , was sentenced to two and a half years ' custody . |