Example sentences of "[adj] years [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the growth that seems likely over the next few years one can not help asking what the future holds . |
| 2 | " After all , in a few years you can leave the convent . |
| 3 | Over the last few years I can admit to having heard enough of the individual experiences of examination candidates to make me totally cynical about a system which confers , supposedly , passes and grades of equal status on students in public examinations that cover so wide-ranging a diversity of structure and subject content . |
| 4 | But I mean in terms of knitwear over the last few years I can give you one or two examples which I think you 'll readily er understand . |
| 5 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 6 | erm There are one or two people who have just begun to identify a faint movement back into an increase in numbers , but over very many years you can know pretty well exactly where you are as far as the total number of pupils you have to provide for is concerned , and therefore , in that sense , the system can plan its resources for a known population . |
| 7 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 8 | For the first time in 11 years you can get nearly two dollars for every £ because the American dollar is so weak . |
| 9 | After twenty-five years we can indeed see much response to Dei Verbum , but it is still limited . |
| 10 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
| 11 | Reminiscence can provide the counsellor with invaluable insight into the nature and quality of the counsellee 's early formative years which can , to a large extent , determine the way people live their later lives . |
| 12 | They 're all trainees when you 've been in the company ten years , twenty years you can still be a trainee learning something new . |
| 13 | I see things like senile dementia as being a direct result of restricted breathing over very many years — in 20 , 30 or 40 years you can do to yourself the same sort of thing that happens in an operating theatre if oxygen is withdrawn . ’ |
| 14 | The greatest importance of the Oklo reactors is that they are still there — after almost 2000 million years we can still find the fission products and demonstrate what happened . |
| 15 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
| 16 | Even if you are working or have been away from the University for more than two years you can still have Current Vacancies mailed to you for a small charge . |
| 17 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |
| 18 | So you go into the guy you sell it to him and then you 've lost you 've got for two years you can do nothing with that person . |
| 19 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 20 | Yet such sociological explanations for men 's reticence at reporting abnormal symptoms only serves to underline the absence of a national prostate screening campaign , particularly so since a simple blood test has been available over the last four years which can detect the likely presence of prostate cancer . |
| 21 | For just £30 a year for four years you can buy one of the 550 seats available and have it names after you or someone of your choice . |
| 22 | After remaining in the colony for seven years they can apply for a CI which is a more widely recognised travel document and enables them to become British Dependent Territory Citizens . |
| 23 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |