Example sentences of "[pron] in [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Imperial Cancer Research Fund , which in 10 years has opened 464 shops , has its own ‘ fashion guru ’ . |
| 2 | It 's an opportunity we 're gon na have now which in two years time |
| 3 | Bolton had made it clear that Jack was not for sale , but Chapman , who in twenty years of football management rarely failed to get his man , was determined . |
| 4 | A rule of thumb is that investment in energy efficiency is expected to pay for itself in two years . |
| 5 | A vaccine against HIV is still likely to be many years away but Dr Michael Murphey-Corb , who led the Tulane team , said he hoped ‘ to see something in five years . ’ |
| 6 | You 've been with Julius for ten years now , and if a man has n't wanted something in ten years , then he 's never going to want it . |
| 7 | The reunion was a great success and Keith and joint organiser Jeryl Whitelock , who is a lecturer in International Marketing at Salford have already been asked to organise the next one in five years time , when the graduates will mark the twentieth anniversary of successfully completing the degree . |
| 8 | On the NRA 's own admission , there will be an inadequate flow in one in three years , and no flow at all in one in 10 . |
| 9 | You 've done nothing in five years , nothing since that Miss Gracie left . ’ |
| 10 | No , it 's will you all remember me in two years ? |
| 11 | Now I said to Ken that 'll be your christmas present to me in nineteen years and that 'll do me a treat cos that 's really worth it . |
| 12 | In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years . |
| 13 | " They said they 'd see me in three years to do my D.Phil. at Oxford . |
| 14 | Will you remember me in three years ? |
| 15 | Unless we can persuade them in two years costs have gone up and of course we will . |
| 16 | Ask them in fifty years or so , |
| 17 | If you want children now , and he wants them in five years , or you want two and he wants six , you can probably reach a compromise . |
| 18 | At Petworth , Lord Egremont instituted a ‘ voluntary ’ emigration policy , ‘ shovelling out paupers ’ which set people up in a new life in Canada , 1456 of them in five years . |
| 19 | His ambition was to ‘ continue moving forward in a positive way ’ and he ‘ hoped that THE FACE would ask him in ten years ’ time what he was doing ’ |
| 20 | Rick 's old agent , however , had not heard from him in ten years , and could neither confirm nor deny the rumour . |
| 21 | She had n't seen him in seven years and did n't really want to . |
| 22 | She should look after herself , as well , and he would see her in five years ' time . |
| 23 | The farm was her prison until her inheritance from her father 's estate freed her in three years ' time . |
| 24 | Well , he might have kept one as a spare , but I rather suspect he 'd have handed it to a friend with strict instructions to thrash it to death and to return it in five years ’ time … |
| 25 | But if you have n't got that amount of capital it takes capital out of your hands and you ca n't spend it in five years time if you need it because you 've given it away effectively forever . |
| 26 | Erm you know , five years hence , we do n't want it in five years hence , we want it the end of this year , early next year . |
| 27 | The look of a winner , but will he still have it in four years ' time ? |
| 28 | you know qualifications which says that graduates can take it in two years . |
| 29 | But it is an option that I certainly would n't want to discount at this particular er stage erm because it depends on so many er factors , it depends for example whether er the site that er has been identified for up to two thousand and six , and which is developed up to two thousand and six , has the physical capacity to expand beyond two thousand and six , and I think that that ought to be one of the considerations perhaps that we ought to look at as we move towards the identification erm er of the new settlement , conversely , it could well be that ought to be looking at a second new settlement in a different location , erm I ca n't give an answer , a definitive answer , what I can say is , coming back again er to Mr Brook , this sort of issue er will not be picked up in nineteen eighty eight or nineteen eighty nine , er if we are all alive and kicking in North Yorkshire and the District Councils we will be looking at it regularly , we 'll be looking at it in two years time , one years time , erm erm that 's the way we work in Greater York , and it 's basically worked very successfully . |
| 30 | You do n't have to like it in ten years ’ time . |