Example sentences of "but [prep] [num] years ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without bitterness , but with five years ' experience , Lord Wilson said yesterday : ‘ No Governor should expect this job to be a bed of roses or to get plaudits or easy popularity . |
| 2 | But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ? |
| 3 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 4 | But in three years ' time Sainsbury will hit the North Sea . |
| 5 | Chop it up into elephant steaks , bung it into the deep freeze , and over a period of say two , three years , every Friday night have an elephant steak , but in three years ' time , I will have actually achieved my objective . |