Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [subord] [pers pn] [vb mod] " 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 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 3 | Thus , where landlords were entitled to determine a twenty-one year lease " at the expiration of fourteen years if they shall require the premises for the purposes of a business carried on by them " it was held to be sufficient for them to show that they would need at least part of the premises before the date on which the lease would otherwise have expired by effluxion of time ( Parkinson v Barclays Bank Ltd [ 1951 ] 1 KB 368 ) . |
| 4 | The Detectives , which pulled in bumper viewing figures when it was shown on BBC earlier this year , was a revelation for Jasper whose stand-up routines of recent years if I can be frank were dire . |
| 5 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 6 | I think the books recommend really most players eighteen months to two years before you can come . |