Example sentences of "[det] years [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we s we had kept on making this , maybe we , some years we would sell about ten of them . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 3 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 4 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ’ But those years he would go into his study afterwards with the coffee her mother made , to smoke his pipe and look over a case , and he shut the door . |