Example sentences of "[num] years [noun sg] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MORE than 100 years service will be recognised at a ceremony at South Moor Social Club on Wednesday April 8 when five members of the management committee receive long service awards from the CIU . |
| 2 | That may look fancy but RMC is well-led and in two or three years time should make decent money in Britain again . |
| 3 | Michael Baly , president of the American Gas Association , reckons that within ten years gas could be a substitute for 2 billion barrels of oil — an eighth of current American oil consumption . |
| 4 | Putting me and Billy together ten years back would probably never have occurred to them . |
| 5 | To decide what the company should be like in five years time may not solve a crisis that is looming up next month . |
| 6 | I 'm also hoping to put in time capsules , so people in 150 years time will know what what was happening in Southmoor and the locality . |
| 7 | None the less , as has been argued , the Hundred Years War would never be settled by a major engagement in which the cavalry alone played the decisive role . |
| 8 | The importance attached to the sea by more reflective Englishmen and Frenchmen at the end of the Hundred Years War may also be seen in two works : The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , written about 1437 , and Le débat des hérauts d'armes , composed about 1455 . |
| 9 | Workers with less than two years service CAN have their case heard if they were fired on grounds of sex or race . |
| 10 | Then comes the second part of the double whammy — after say two years BA would announce that it was withdrawing from Belfast City Airport in order to consolidate their operations at Belfast International whose superior facilities interface more readily with their corporate image ( or similar doublespeak ) . |
| 11 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 12 | The report 's most dramatic assumption is that within the next 20 years electricity can replace petrol for many of the region 's cars , buses and lorries . |