Example sentences of "[num] years [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're working at things which the players might not appreciate at the moment but they will in 10 years time when they look back on what they have achieved . |
| 2 | What happens in two or three years time when the ANC 's political aspirations have not been met. ? |
| 3 | In 50 years time when they celebrate the 100th anniversary , they 'll have an aid , a time capsule containing photographs and documents about the life of today 's garrison , buried will bring back the memories . |
| 4 | Quartet notch up 25 years service apiece |
| 5 | Our drivers and recently notched up 25 years service apiece . |
| 6 | Now what that actually means is that in ten years time when that money matures , that policy matures |
| 7 | Three girls , see you 're lucky really cos if they 'd had three boys an i , in a few times , you know , ten years time like , they 'd have all , the boys would of been growing up and they 'd have had cars stuck everywhere , you know what I mean ? |
| 8 | AIDS victim Alberto Gonzalez , 28 , got five years jail yesterday for trying to murder a girl of 17 by unsafe sex . |
| 9 | and therefore you can have a situation where , I mean if the Queen is there for another twenty years say , say the situation in twenty years time where you have king on throne and a queen who have not lived together for thirty years or whatever years and you know still playing out this |
| 10 | In twenty years time maybe they wo n't feel so self-conscious , but I do n't think we should lost sight of the point that what they 're getting a tiny , tiny sense of is what women , a large number of women , feel all the time . |
| 11 | There were double celebrations at Key Street in April , when and completed 40 years service apiece , having started work for on the same day — . |
| 12 | Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason . |
| 13 | The ruin of the German economy which was completed by the Thirty Years War also brought the ruin of the Fuggers . |
| 14 | Erm and I suppose you could regard the Thirty Years War too er as being a , a total war in this sense in , in that the objectives of the war is the crushing of opposition , unconditional surrender . |
| 15 | It was three centuries and the Hundred Years War indeed before the English lost it , in which time Bayonne did well , not least as a centre of the wine trade with England equal in prosperity to Bordeaux . |
| 16 | Well another two years car then I 'm free to have what I actually want or what I would like . |
| 17 | But my surgeon says my back should be considerably stronger in two years time so who knows , maybe I 'll be able to make a comeback after sorting my life out . |
| 18 | Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years . |
| 19 | The solution sought was the conversion of as much of the debt as possible into long-term funded redeemable debt , as in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years War when £3,670,739 worth of Navy and ordnance debt was converted into a 4 per cent stock funded on " earmarked " tax revenue . |
| 20 | In the Seven Years War over 30 per cent of the Letters of Marque vessels from Bristol were lost , while a third of Bristol privateers during the American War of Independence met the same fate . |
| 21 | Though the official figures are not easy to interpret it seems that at the outbreak of the Seven Years War about half its manpower was drawn either from the jails of London and other cities or from the crews of foreign ships . |