Example sentences of "[conj] in [art] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 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 ? ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene .
5 ‘ It is true that in the eighteen years she has been here I have never heard her speak .
6 Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is .
7 But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill .
8 It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 .
9 But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him .
10 In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment .
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