Example sentences of "[adj] year [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | After about 30 years they would support ling and heather , then gorse would become established . |
| 2 | And we s we had kept on making this , maybe we , some years we would sell about ten of them . |
| 3 | ‘ Honestly God , if you had seen my performance reports for the last forty years you would not be offering me this position . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 5 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 6 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 7 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 8 | IN THESE violent times when all young children are at risk — more so now that the nights are dark when they are coming home from school — the Government promised last year that this year they would leave the clocks alone . |
| 9 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 10 | So I was just saying that this year it would be hopefully everybody will go through it . |
| 11 | If Balbinder did n't get a place at Cedars this year she would become even more anxious about his progress . |
| 12 | In October of this year I would like to hold another sale to raise £1,000 for Breast Cancer Research and would like to ask you readers if they would help me once again by donating one item no matter how small , or if they have some spare yarn but not time to knit it up and would like to donate the yarn I have some people who would help me to knit it . |
| 13 | Now in order to make a prediction of what say what 's going to happen this year I would have to know the state of the system of the ocean and the atmosphere on January first and in order to do that in an ideal world I would have a tremendous amount of data about the ocean and about the atmosphere and be able to put it into this model but this data , by and large , does n't exist . |
| 14 | Oh in that case this year I would n't mention it if I was you , you might get away with it . |
| 15 | This year I would of liked Mr Stedlock . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She was a woman in need of a child to love , and having none of her own she was lavishing it all on Corrie Palmer , which was sad because in another year she would have to be returned to the hospital . |
| 18 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 19 | POLICEWOMAN Pauline Tilley said afterwards on behalf of the grieving families : ‘ If the judge had given Gooch 100 years it would probably not be enough , because you can not bring the lives of five children back . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 22 | It clearly is not the case , that , we have heard from the city this morning , and in the city alone windfalls have been progressing at the rate of eighty per annum , if it was only half that rate over the next thirteen years we would see five hundred more houses , and that excludes windfalls from the rest of the Greater York area , excluding the city of York . |
| 23 | On , on , on past experience that 's roughly what the yield has been , on an average year you would expect to get that . |
| 24 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 25 | The results of the first two years really did not warrant such astronomical sums and Dennis knew that the following year he would have to pay Prost a sum equal to his evident worth . |
| 26 | I said if we had a maintenance on it , maintenance was thirty odd quid a year , over eight years it would of cost us two hundred and forty pound |
| 27 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 28 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
| 29 | ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said . |
| 30 | Doubtless in later years she would be glad of that , but for now she was too embarrassed to care . |