Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years would " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a charge of 2 per cent , the net return would be 5 per cent a year and the value after ten years would be £1,629 . |
| 2 | There have been some very diverse schemes , including a wine company that after five years would offer investors a taste of the booty . |
| 3 | Some blockhouses were small and short-lived , but others proved to have been placed advantageously and after several years would be reconstructed on a larger scale to form a frontier town . |
| 4 | There were no guarantees that the wealthy , stable , democratic regime of later years would emerge . |
| 5 | She said there was no way her husband of 46 years would have killed himself by jumping off his luxury yacht . |
| 6 | These days BEM systems cost little or no more than conventional controllers so the Exeter Arms ' payback period of two-and-a-half years would be much shorter today . |
| 7 | A sentence of five years would — be substituted . |
| 8 | The reference to Murphy suggests that a sentence of four years would have been upheld on an appeal by the offenders . |
| 9 | ( S. ) 407 ; a sentence of two years would be substituted . |
| 10 | He also admitted the faults in his writing — something which the Eliot of earlier years would never have been able to do , in public at least . |
| 11 | Maybe for ten years would be better than no . |
| 12 | It was announced on Feb. 11 that Nepal 's first multiparty general election in 30 years would be held on May 30 . |
| 13 | Arthritic and near blind , he found he was also suffering from cancer and in human years would have been aged around 90 . |
| 14 | And the fact that he seemed to accept the failure of his play , which in previous years would have depressed and unnerved him , is further evidence that he was now a more sanguine man . |
| 15 | This he did with difficulty , partly on account of his bad eyesight , partly because of what in later years would come to be referred to as ‘ a learning disability ’ or ‘ mild dyslexia ’ ; and partly because he simply was n't much of a reader . |
| 16 | A man who would get seven children on Dinah in twelve years would surely need one . |
| 17 | ‘ For us to promise the removal of nuclear power generation within 15 years would be to delude ourselves and mislead others . ’ |
| 18 | Given the proliferation of multi-user operating systems just coming to market , SunSoft declined to talk percentages about how much of the Unix-on-Intel market it is aiming for with Solaris 2.0 , though a bullish Doug Miller , managing director of SunSoft UK , said sales of one million copies a year within two years would n't be an unreasonable goal . |
| 19 | Doubtless the Court was influenced by the fact that though the risk to employees may well have been minimal ( and two accidents in two years would suggest that that was not so ) the consequences of any such risk materialising were potentially serious and , indeed , in one instance had been fatal . |
| 20 | ‘ Reducing the external painting cycle from five to eight years would not affect performance and would not affect the number of applicants for places . ’ |
| 21 | I think two to three years would be a pretty fair estimate . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ To disturb them after all the work that has been done over many years would be a disaster . ’ |
| 23 | seven to ten years would be normal |
| 24 | The Institutional Shareholders ' Committee suggested that information relating to the proportion of current sales attributable to products introduced in the last three to five years would , with other data , provide a helpful indication of the return earned on R&D . |
| 25 | In a report to go before members of the leisure committee tomorrow night , he says the plan which looks ahead from three to five years would prevent the department from running £670,000 over budget . |
| 26 | Projects need to be assessed over time ; there are very few whose benefits can be seriously assessed in less than ten years , and a period of fifteen to twenty years would be more meaningful . |
| 27 | Names on open years would , on payment of a premium meant to reflect commercial conditions , be granted unlimited cover for future liabilities . |
| 28 | If less reliable prostheses or techniques were used the cost at 10 years would be over three times as much . |
| 29 | Using the incidence curve previously published , at risk patients with no retinal features of FAP and a negative sigmoidoscopy screen at 34 years would be considered at no risk of having FAP and developing multiple polyps . |