Example sentences of "[to-vb] for [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 2 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 3 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 4 | ‘ The only mistake we made was to wait for four years before trying to sort out our lives , ’ Julius replied in an unruffled tone . |
| 5 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 6 | The verdict on that one , however , may have to wait for many years yet . |
| 7 | He says it is not acceptable to have to wait for 2 years . |
| 8 | Except that in my case there was no need to wait for seven years . |
| 9 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 10 | Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years . |
| 11 | I went down to have a word with the promotion yesterday and er we have er come to terms and er we are all ready to go for next year . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's all very well to plan for next year 's holiday or a new home but there 's litle point if your family would be left high and dry by the death of the breadwinner . ’ |
| 13 | The University 's overhauled financial systems allow it to plan for another year in which income and expenditure will at least balance and may perhaps allow some restoration of the reserves it needs to cope with unexpected problems . |
| 14 | The legend that Crabb was taken back to Russia alive continued to circulate for several years and indeed still does , helped by a number of books claiming to be based on secret information from the East . |
| 15 | Then he put through a bill to suspend for five years the Seven Hours Act , which had restricted maximum daily hours for the coal industry since 1919 , following the Eight Hours Act of 1908 . |
| 16 | There are also concerns about how realistic it is to expect directors , let alone auditors , to confirm for one year ahead of the date the accounts are approved that their company will be a going concern . |
| 17 | I enjoy my work at the playgroup and hope I will be able to continue for many years to come ’ |
| 18 | The battle was on , and was to continue for another year . |
| 19 | The United Kingdom holiday industry was in a period of rapid change and flux in late 1985 and this is likely to continue for some years to come . |
| 20 | The research to find a European version of taxol is likely to continue for some years . |
| 21 | PHONE bills are set to fall for four years in a row from next August , it was announced yesterday . |
| 22 | It predicts that , despite tougher standards for new cars , the problem is likely to increase for some years to come , largely as a result of a lack of any controls over the emissions of vehicles already on the road . |
| 23 | Because of the slow diffusion rates into and through the stratosphere , even if all emissions of CFCs into the atmosphere ceased , stratospheric concentration of CFCs would continue to increase for several years . |
| 24 | As we have seen , the establishment of NAB , with its very strong representation from the local authorities , creates a new environment for the polytechnics , and the colleges and institutes of higher education , to which they will have to adjust for some years to come . |
| 25 | The idea of the emergent Pacific was not in anyone 's mind , and in any case the reality of it was not to appear for many years . |
| 26 | Speech recognition , on the other hand , as featured in science fiction and typified by the HAL computer in 2001 — A Space Odyssey is unlikely to appear for many years yet , if ever . |
| 27 | No sex differences were found in the rate of problems but the difficulties were found to persist for one year in about two-thirds of these children and to persist for over five years in about one-third . |
| 28 | Zinoviev , presiding over the Congress , blurred these differences and declared that just as the Russian Communist party was assisting the Chinese communists , so the French and Dutch parties should take care of Indonesia and Indo-China ; a curiously neo-colonialist policy which was to persist for several years . |
| 29 | Even the most generous interpretation of the figures reveals a very modest increase in funding and it most certainly does not even begin to compensate for ten years of cuts . |
| 30 | A student nowadays has to graft for three years on a pittance of a grant , begging the government for a loan and at the same time being excluded from any welfare benefits . |