Example sentences of "[adj] years [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thus possible that in the course of the next few years Council will assign the headship for a period to the holder of the Halford Mackinder Professorship , who will among those carrying an obligation to serve if so requested . |
| 2 | It seems likely that in the next few years funding will be increased minimally and competition will also grow . |
| 3 | He says that in a few years gas will become expensive , and coal will be waiting in the wings as a cheap form of energy . |
| 4 | In a few years things may change , I ca n't promise that , but they may . |
| 5 | Temporarily for a few years trains could use that Thameslink line . |
| 6 | ‘ Margaret I hope you do n't mind my saying this , but are n't you forgetting that in a few years Dickie 'll be grown up ? |
| 7 | And maybe in a few years people will look back and see the things that we tried to do , and hopefully respect them . ’ |
| 8 | MORE than 100 years service will be recognised at a ceremony at South Moor Social Club on Wednesday April 8 when five members of the management committee receive long service awards from the CIU . |
| 9 | I believe that in 100 years people will look back on the middle of the twentieth century as a nightmare period when mankind suddenly discovered the means to destroy itself , and was seriously considering using this as a preferable alternative to reconciling differing political views . |
| 10 | But the concern , in respect of the early years , is that we have never achieved consensus over what an appropriate early years curriculum should be ; besides which , provision is so varied nationally that some children are evidently disadvantaged from an early age . |
| 11 | At the end of the three years Tom would begin to pay rent — a fair rent — for the lands he farmed and would take over all farm buildings , implements and stock . |
| 12 | Around 200 pumps are now in place and during the next three years villagers will learn to maintain them . |
| 13 | In December , Stuttgart will host the Davis Cup final , in which the West Germans will defend the trophy they won for the first time by defeating Sweden in Gothenburg , and in the coming three years Frankfurt will stage the ATP Tour World Championship , which will supersede the Nabisco Masters in New York . |
| 14 | That may look fancy but RMC is well-led and in two or three years time should make decent money in Britain again . |
| 15 | For many years caterers could obtain only dried pasta . |
| 16 | Versailles displayed an economic shortsightedness ; writing in 1921 R. H. Brand recognised that in the next 5 years reparations would not " be large enough very seriously to alleviate the great financial problems which … the nations of Western Europe must have solved " . " |
| 17 | Michael Baly , president of the American Gas Association , reckons that within ten years gas could be a substitute for 2 billion barrels of oil — an eighth of current American oil consumption . |
| 18 | Putting me and Billy together ten years back would probably never have occurred to them . |
| 19 | Over the next ten years manufacturers will be able to exceed them , and they will want the rules changed . |
| 20 | Over those years Eliot would visit him during what became regular trips to the United States ; he also wrote a number of letters to those in authority in order to ease his conditions : he talks about the time Pound should be allowed to spend alone , for example , and the condition of the buildings in which he was confined . |
| 21 | The science report suggests that in the fourth and fifth years pupils should be devoting 20 per cent of their time to science . |
| 22 | For five years William would be instructed in the art of ornamental gold-engraving ; Mr. Ashdown 's side of the bargain was to provide meat , drink and lodging , leaving the boy 's father to find wearing apparel and arrange for washing and mending to be done . |
| 23 | To decide what the company should be like in five years time may not solve a crisis that is looming up next month . |
| 24 | For both these reasons , there is a high likelihood that with advancing years wives will be widowed and will find themselves living alone . |
| 25 | I 'm also hoping to put in time capsules , so people in 150 years time will know what what was happening in Southmoor and the locality . |
| 26 | ‘ In 10 or 15 years William will be an adult capable of taking on those responsibilities , and the Royal Family may well feel that is the best option for everybody . ’ |
| 27 | And , staggeringly , local foresters themselves reckon that within about 15 years Malaysia will be a net importer of timber . |
| 28 | Given the long dormancy of the virus , some people now in monogamous relationships of several years standing could have become HIV positive before they met their present partner , and be completely unaware of this fact . |
| 29 | None the less , as has been argued , the Hundred Years War would never be settled by a major engagement in which the cavalry alone played the decisive role . |
| 30 | The importance attached to the sea by more reflective Englishmen and Frenchmen at the end of the Hundred Years War may also be seen in two works : The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , written about 1437 , and Le débat des hérauts d'armes , composed about 1455 . |