Example sentences of "[adj] years [to-vb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has taken him just five and a half years to make his mark in the big time . |
| 2 | In most cases the hereditary wardens and foresters of fee , or their heirs , were able within a few years to recover their bailiwicks by payment of substantial fines to the Crown . |
| 3 | Very little guidance is given to students , who enrol ( with some exceptions ) in the subject of their choice and shift around at will , taking around six years to complete their first degree . |
| 4 | Hoteliers will increasingly look to Europe in the next 10 years to satisfy their investment needs , according to Jonathan Bodlender , chairman of Horwath Consulting . |
| 5 | A farmer has turned the clock back fifty years to harvest his crop of wheat . |
| 6 | Charles must use these years to make his mark and dabble in things that he may have to surrender when he succeeds to the throne . |
| 7 | Social status , so quickly achieved , made the family unwilling in later years to acknowledge their very humble origins . |
| 8 | " They said they 'd see me in three years to do my D.Phil. at Oxford . |
| 9 | There 's some that are going up at the moment to this pond , they develop them for the next three years to spend their life in the fresh water feeding , and what we 're trying to do here is to see just how many there are in , in the river er as a total . |
| 10 | Ten years ago , applications for cases to be heard were dealt with relatively swiftly , but a dramatic increase in their work load has produced a situation where despite the appointment of more judges to the Official Referee 's court , applicants are having to wait up to two or three years to have their cases heard . |
| 11 | It took Mark Roe some three years to win his second Tour event , but when he triumphed in the Lancome , he was obviously overjoyed . |
| 12 | With three years to make your mark , your wife 's belly should have been permanently swollen . ’ |
| 13 | In response , the Lord Chancellor established a review of the financial conditions for legal aid in November 1989 , which is expected to take three years to complete its work . |
| 14 | Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 15 | Nobel has three years to reduce its assets and pay off Nordbanken . |
| 16 | I worked in the coal mines for three years to obtain my colliery manager 's certificate . |
| 17 | The UKCC has now made it mandatory for all nurses to attend a five-day refresher course every three years to maintain their registration . |
| 18 | Inventories have been refined over many years to meet your needs on flotilla , and include little touches like sets of snorkels and flippers — and a pack of foodstuffs and cleaning materials to start you off . |
| 19 | Even so , PT Timah took many years to develop its own technical expertise and still depends to an important degree on technical assistance from multinationals , including Billiton . |
| 20 | It will take me bleeding years to reach my goal |
| 21 | It gave him even more pleasure in their latter years to see his parents ' joy at their children 's happiness , Peter 's included . |
| 22 | According to the Theory of Relativity , time passes more slowly for objects moving very swiftly ; thus a spacecraft moving at close to the speed of light would take more than 100,000 years to cross our Galaxy , as observed by the rest of us , but only a few years so far as its crew were concerned . |
| 23 | Before she died in June , 1913 , so the story goes , she swore to rise again in 80 years to take her revenge . |
| 24 | It is repeatedly being copied and recopied as the generations go by , like the Hebrew scriptures which were ritually copied by scribes every 80 years to forestall their wearing-out . |
| 25 | Asking someone who has been closely associated with garden flowers for more than 50 years to name his favourite one is rather like asking King Solomon to name his favourite wife — I love then all ! |
| 26 | He made his first stage appearance as an actor at Wigan in The King of Terrors in 1900 , taking fourteen more years to make his way into the West End , where he arrived at the Empire Theatre in October 1914 in By Jingo If We Do . |
| 27 | The Spanish government may , of course , be hoping in the long term to be able to buy at least part of this collection at favourable rates ; otherwise it must simply be gambling on the Thyssen collection being a sufficiently spectacular and alluring feather in the cultural cap of the capital over the next ten years to make its considerable investment worthwhile . |
| 28 | The measure allows such companies in those years to apply their mineral depletion allowances to 50% of the value of the finished products rather than to the lower value of raw clay alone . |
| 29 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 30 | In terms of cash flow , it takes a business man eight or nine years to get his money back on any machinery , for example , that he buys . |