Example sentences of "[det] years before they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 2 | It was some years before they were replaced and the legend on the present bridge at the airport tells the story ; Built 1885 . |
| 3 | He showed the notarised notebooks of April 1986 demonstrating the range of materials , including not just palladium but several other metals , that was being used two and a half years before they learned of the work by Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 4 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 5 | These five cars received the least modifications of any of the South Metropolitan fleet and in fact it was many years before they were even repainted , running in deep chocolate and ivory , with only the fleet numbers and badges altered . |
| 6 | Some Old Testament books describe events that occurred many years before they were written . |
| 7 | They could sense our nervous impatience , and they were determined to remember everything very clearly , for it could be many years before they would again have the opportunity to witness such exotic behaviour . |
| 8 | The little orange trees which grow are pretty but it will be many years before they are big enough to produce oranges . |
| 9 | Consequently they underinvest in long-term projects which take many years before they yield a positive return . |
| 10 | This adage was true in the days when pears were grafted onto a miscellany of vigorous rootstocks , which encouraged the growth of great , large trees which took many years before they settled down to cropping . |
| 11 | We know that the projected new Ilyushin Y-type fighter aircraft is n't due to come into full-scale production much before the early 1980S … perhaps two more years before they are in full service with trained pilots and maintenance crews . |
| 12 | Scientists believe that it will be several years before they can confirm the existence of the greenhouse effect . |