Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [modal v] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only two o'clock in the afternoon and already me and the boys have had more beer , sex , drugs and Nintendo than you 'll have all year , you sad f— ! |
| 2 | Professionals do have indoor areas so they can jump all year round . |
| 3 | The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate . |
| 4 | Well , the Mexico City earthquake if you will recall some years ago , buried a maternity hospital on the day of the quake . |
| 5 | It is also worth asking if you can contact last year 's customers ; there is no substitute for word-of-mouth recommendation , as the best colleges well know . |
| 6 | Accepting that the calculations can take years to complete , he asked : ‘ If we can spend 10 years on an experiment , why ca n't you do these calculations ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Because they would unlock fifty years ’ worth of royalties on Tristram Abberley 's poems ? ’ |
| 8 | Conventional cloches , while they should last several years if stored carefully , do require a fair bit of storage space . |
| 9 | The Swindon Works only closed in 1986 and since it can take many years for asbestos to affect people 's health , she expects to be dealing with similar cases well into the next century . |
| 10 | Contemporary dealers Liliane and Michel Durand-Dessert , however , seemed less than enthusiastic about the results of their one-man show of gouaches by Gerard Garouste and unsure whether they could return next year . |
| 11 | The ponderous patent application process seems to be unsuited to a fast- moving technology as it can take several years from initial application before a patent is finally granted . |