Example sentences of "[prep] years [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of years they would be exchanged for someone else of sufficiently high position . |
| 2 | As couples live together over a period of years they will find more and more areas where decisions can be made without consultation because they will understand a lot of each other 's interests and desires . |
| 3 | Every couple of years we would rewrite the address book , leaving out those items not referenced in the index and up-date the index ( or write another one ) . |
| 4 | well erm , I 'll see if this one 's a boy , probably in a couple of years we might try for a girl , I do n't know |
| 5 | In a couple of years we 'll be outnumbered . ’ |
| 6 | And the young lads are listening and learning erm so hopefully , in a couple of years we 'll have a good side over here . |
| 7 | One must n't give in to pessimism , and it 's pointless to look too far ahead , but in a couple of years she wo n't even be legal . |
| 8 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 9 | ‘ In a couple of years I 'll have an even better horse than Grye . ’ |
| 10 | but basically what , what , what I 'm trying to say is that erm , you know , it 's nineteen twenty seven , the world depression has n't happened yet erm and he 's assuming that you know , well you , you just said downtrodden masses for thousands of years I 'd say , you know , balls to that |
| 11 | but normally I ca n't sleep here I al I always admired anybody that could sleep with a for yea it 's only this last couple of years I can do it , no I mean I 'll doze . |
| 12 | Against the black walls there were of course changes in fashion , changes of music , changes in drink ; for instance for a couple of years you could get little liqueur glasses of violently alcoholic black coffee with pyramids of whipped cream on top after one of the barstaff had come back from an affair with a real sailor ( or so he said anyway ) in some German port , Germany somewhere . |
| 13 | If prices remained high for a number of years it would become economic to develop marginal deposits in other parts of the world , such as Indonesia , New Guinea , New Caledonia , Peru and the US . |
| 14 | A final point on this type of clause : if what is regarded as an initially reasonable figure is inserted in standard conditions and remains unchanged for a number of years it may well have become unreasonable through the impact of inflation , either in an absolute sense , or because average contract values have increased . |
| 15 | Over billions of years it will slowly fizzle out to become a black dwarf . |
| 16 | For years she could only look on and sympathise with Lady Spencer as the ‘ spiteful stepmother ’ stories about her grew unchecked . |
| 17 | Now you count on that but the next vote then comes in and they 're still not available beds are not available in it , and the next four and the next four so you 'll have , for years you 'll have those out of operation would you like to call it that way and out of production . |
| 18 | ‘ For years he would n't even talk to me . |
| 19 | ‘ Neither does anyone else , but of course Graham 's furious now that he 's started winning , because for the first time for years he could have set up some good contracts — and not least collected some commission on the bonuses paid by Hi-Flight . ’ |
| 20 | For years I would come back to the store and walk over to where they were . |
| 21 | For years I could n't catch the bloom on a child or young girl 's cheeks , but more recently I managed to capture this with one stroke of the knife . |
| 22 | For years I used to think that Shakespeare 's line , ‘ and roasted crabs hiss in the bowl ’ , was about sea-food , describing the sound of boiling water , and claws , scratching vainly against the side of a hot , bubbling pan . |
| 23 | For years I used to carry the stuff . |
| 24 | For years I used to knit exactly the number of rows quoted in the instructions , especially when I was trying to get friendly with the machine . |
| 25 | Lindow Moss almost certainly has more to offer , yet within years it will be only a hole in the ground — the same hole that the ice left . |