Example sentences of "if [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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1 | It was such an odd feeling , as if I 'd lost twenty years somewhere . |
2 | If she 'd waited another year she would have garnered twice the price , as the yuppie age was dawning , but unfortunately for herself and her family , Jane had no financial sense whatsoever , except , thanks perhaps to her Scottish ancestry , she always spent as little as possible . |
3 | I do not make any award for the sums claimed from disposable income for her employment during the said , the alleged year off , since I 'm not satisfied she would have had a year off , or would have had any disposable income even if she had taken that year . |
4 | ‘ My friend , if you 'd spent two years burning up with sulphur injections , or shaking from haloperidol , you too might develop certain uncanny abilities . |
5 | Put more starkly , with the current caseload and an intake of 50,000 new applications this year , even if we managed to exceed last year 's output we would still have at least two years work in hand . ’ |
6 | If we had tried ten years ago to do what we are doing now , we would be dead . ’ |
7 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
8 | We must approach our prophet as if he had lived five years ago . |