Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] years [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , however , a married man had children young enough to keep his wife at home , then during the high-price years he could not have earned enough to support his family without supplementation . |
| 2 | Pentagon hardliners , who have opposed a chemical weapons ban on the grounds that it could not be verified adequately , suggested the idea of seeking continued production of the new ‘ binary ’ weapons during the 10 years it would take to eliminate all arsenals . |
| 3 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 4 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 5 | By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 . |
| 6 | The name , New Millennium , means the new period of a thousand years which will start in the year 2000–1 and it also suggests an era of peace and harmony . |
| 7 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 8 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 9 | Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise . |
| 10 | First-timers in their millions were backing the saxophone-playing candidate from the baby-boom years they could identify with . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Th in the coming years we will make budget provisions for cameras and the hardware at the site will be provided for by . |
| 14 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 15 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 16 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | In a few years he 'll have developed a big enough ass to occupy my chair . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 20 | In a few years I 'd be just like mammy , cleaning for toffs ; and I 'd have weans and it 'd be too late then , and my man 'd be just like daddy was before he died , working a' week and getting drunk on Friday nights and a' day Saturdays . ’ |
| 21 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | " After all , in a few years you can leave the convent . |
| 25 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 26 | The overall cost of the project over the ten years it will run is estimated to be in the region of £1.9 million , and an appeal for sponsorship by commercial sources and private individuals is to be launched early in 1993 . |
| 27 | We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves . |
| 28 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |