Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] years [pers pn] [modal v] " 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 | 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 . |
7 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | First-timers in their millions were backing the saxophone-playing candidate from the baby-boom years they could identify with . |
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 . |
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 | Th in the coming years we will make budget provisions for cameras and the hardware at the site will be provided for by . |
13 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
14 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
15 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
16 | 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 ? ’ |
17 | In a few years he 'll have developed a big enough ass to occupy my chair . ’ |
18 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
19 | 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 . ’ |
20 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
21 | 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 . |
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 | " After all , in a few years you can leave the convent . |
24 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |