Example sentences of "[adj] years [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 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Doubtless in later years she would be glad of that , but for now she was too embarrassed to care . |
| 18 | When he thought of India in later years he would always see these two men and two bullocks and the leather bag flooding out its water as it settled on the ground . |
| 19 | In later years he would be at the centre oftwo scandalous court cases … |
| 20 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 21 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 22 | That 's about the only people that I know of and then , cos later years I would say that they used to cart so much into the erm , into the other farms round here . |
| 23 | Apart from that there is no strong reason for one method rather than another although as the first year has lower production than later years it would be difficult in terms of wearing out to argue for the reducing balance method . |
| 24 | ‘ If we did n't shoot them , ’ he says , ‘ then within two or three years they would be so out of hand that we 'd have to give up sheep farming . ’ |
| 25 | In three years she would be sixty — and Alexandra would be twenty-four . |
| 26 | For three years he would supply funds to run the farm , any profits being split equally between Tom and himself . |
| 27 | From time to time that evening she was visited by the sight of the lake with its gold fretwork of fish ; she wondered how many years it would be before she could go to that place with equanimity . |
| 28 | But he had resolved , when he first took up his great task , that , if God spared his life , before many years he would cause the boy that drove the plough to know more of the Scripture than the ignorant parish clergy of his time . |
| 29 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 30 | By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 . |