Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Means ( 1988 ) argues that some authors treat the total group of " pensioners " ( a group which may cover 40 years given the trend to early retirement ) as a " special needs " category . |
| 2 | So far as section 3 is concerned , the Committee now proposes that the maximum penalty upon conviction should remain two years . |
| 3 | I should think two years , you know , when the restrictions got lifted a bit , so it got better , yeah . |
| 4 | And slower learners should have three years instead of two to do their A-levels . |
| 5 | Costing around FFr10 million and financed jointly by the Ministry of Culture and Paris City Hall , the renovation will start in 1994 and should last two years . |
| 6 | They should last two years |
| 7 | Now ye 'll do five years ’ hard for what ye 've done to Luke ! ’ |
| 8 | She 'll see two years old in December |
| 9 | I thought it might take two years of training . ’ |
| 10 | This might take 5 years . |
| 11 | ‘ We ca n't do it until next March , when we 'll have five years ’ trading figures to show , ’ Adam said . |
| 12 | Do n't you worry about that , said Bernie , I 'll have 10 years off him . |
| 13 | The names on the Warwickshire team sheet are changing , and Bob Cottam 's statement that it 'll take five years to get it right is looking accurate . |
| 14 | I 'll mention six years to you ! |
| 15 | He might last ten years … might last ten months or days . ’ |
| 16 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 17 | Beetle grubs may spend seven years boring through wood and extracting nutriment from that most indigestible of materials , cellulose . |
| 18 | Is there any danger that this experience may precipitate five years of creative inactivity ? |
| 19 | The new law will carry a sentence which could average two years in jail , ‘ designed not just to be a deterrent but to instil new respect for the rule of law ’ . |
| 20 | In fact I 'd wait four days , I 'd wait four years to watch it on T V it 's so crap . |
| 21 | They could do two years , between sixteen and eighteen , you see ? |
| 22 | 7029 ‘ Clun Castle ’ made several trips in the North during September and October 1967 , and to see what single-chimneyed Castle could do 25 years later would be very interesting . |
| 23 | Anyone considering selling counterfeit goods at car boot sales could face two years in prison or unlimited fines . |
| 24 | Knife-carriers could face two years ' jail |
| 25 | Nurse Dawn Anderson , 24 , and her boyfriend Maldin Thain , 25 — both from Leeds — are being held in cells at Ceuta , a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast , and could face eight years ' jail if convicted . |
| 26 | Mr de Benedetti has protested his innocence and is to appeal , a process that could take two years to complete . |
| 27 | He has been told he has only months to live , but the case could take two years before the Court of Session in Edinburgh . |
| 28 | The work could take 10 years and will be the trust 's biggest single building conservation project . |
| 29 | The clean-up could take four years and cost £80 million . |
| 30 | It could take three years or even more , depending on the exact nature of the change and , of course , the priority given to it . |