Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a [adj] year [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can we allow the commercial hunting of whales when they could be starved of food because of ozone depletion in a few years ' time ? " |
| 2 | forbidding the use of capillary fittings containing lead-based solder on pipes supplying drinking water ( see Chapter 2 ) n changing the size of flushing cisterns used with WCs ( to come into effect in a few years ' time — see Chapter 8 ) |
| 3 | The growth rate in original currencies was 6.9% , reflecting the impact of successful rating action in all major markets as well as the inclusion of a full year 's premiums from the US-based Hawkeye-Security Group , acquired in July 1991 . |
| 4 | The motion called on the chamber to reconsider the issue in a few years ' time . |
| 5 | Further , more local , threats are posed for the sake of a few years ' supply of raw materials . |
| 6 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 7 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 8 | Charles and Liz , naturally , did not construct the notion of a New Year 's Eve party in this spirit , as a portent , as a symbol , as a landmark in the journey of their lives . |
| 9 | Without pilots gaining experience at the lowest level , we will be shaping up for another chronic pilots shortage in a few years ' time . |
| 10 | Mr Johnson gave the two girls up to six allergy tablets , after a row with his wife at a New Year 's party . |
| 11 | The apparently irreversible trend in the insurance industry , in common with others in the financial services sector , to move away from high-risk , low-return business and focus on specialised , value-added lines ( stop-loss insurance , financial insurance to smooth the impact of a single year 's sudden loss on the balance sheet with repayment over subsequent years , and so on ) , means that organisations must look on insurance almost as a last resort after exhausting all the possibilities of minimising risk cost-effectively in-house . |
| 12 | The dissolution of the monasteries by the French in 1809 was the violent culmination of a twenty years ' campaign . |
| 13 | The company 's chief executive , Dr David Horrobin , said that employment could be expected to increase if progress continues and the products are licensed by the Government for clinical use in a few years ' time . |
| 14 | The next day Minton , in marvellous form and coruscating with wit , took a crowd of friends to the Gargoyle for a New Year 's Day lunch . |
| 15 | How much money went with this is not known but the scale of the ruins — the shell of the reactor is still visible — suggest that it must have been several million dollars even in 1950s prices , perhaps 1 per cent of the gross national product of Argentina , or roughly the equivalent of a whole year 's research budget for a developed country . |
| 16 | Already in Britain there are plans for putting into communication the computer-based personal information systems of DHSS , the Driving and Vehicle Licensing Centre , the Police National Computer and the Inland Revenue ; and the embossed plastic cards with unique machine-readable numerical identifiers which are now issued automatically to all school-leavers to mark their entry into the National Insurance scheme will in a few years ' time be , in effect , national identity cards . |
| 17 | As with the merger in 1977 between the then Institute of Bankers and the Savings Banks Institute , the latest partnership will in a few years ' time look entirely natural . |
| 18 | Turning to Westminster Press the cost Westminster Press in a full year er , will amount to three point eight million pounds and er . |
| 19 | The results come hard on the heels of a forecast by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , who says he is confident that a series of factors will lead to a ‘ relaunch ’ of nuclear power in a few years ' time . |
| 20 | The result was pale and sickly , stress lines showing how much she would look like her mother in a few years ' time . |