Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remaining stocks ( in electrical equipment , mostly ) are being burned , but traces will remain for many years . |
| 2 | They can remain for many years in cold and hostile environments while retaining their toxicity , and they have a tendency to remain in living organisms . |
| 3 | I have not met many Scottish people who wish to be left exposed to the nuclear blackmail that could come from the huge nuclear arsenal which will remain for many years on the continent and in Russia . |
| 4 | The following aspects of policy are insufficiently studied and will remain for some years central preoccupations of the Group : |
| 5 | A SIGN outside a nursing home in the centre of Barnard Castle can stay for five years , an appeal inspector has ruled . |
| 6 | The interim government would rule for two years before holding elections under the auspices of the UN and the Islamic Conference Organization . |
| 7 | It can persist for many years . |
| 8 | We found that chronic constipation in young children can persist for many years . |
| 9 | Climbing expeditions into the peaks themselves have also left behind piles of rubbish , and Cullen ( 1986 ) points out that the problem is compounded by the fact that in such a high Alpine environment decomposition rates are very slow so that discarded materials may persist for several years if not decades . |
| 10 | The solution is to invest money which you wo n't need for some years , say five or more . |
| 11 | Public health officials did all in their power to stop the 1964 pie going ahead ; there was a typhoid epidemic in Aberdeen in the 1960 's and it was found that the last serious epidemic before that had been in Denby Dale in the 1930's , and the infection can linger for many years . |
| 12 | He made me wait for two years . |
| 13 | Clive Exon who adapted Poirot for television and also scripted the current play believes Christie 's work will survive for many years to come . |
| 14 | Adrian , who came 15th despite hopes for a medal , vowed : ‘ I certainly hope to go and win in four years ’ time . ’ |
| 15 | Will we object in 75 years if our ancestor 's medical records become publicly accessible ? |
| 16 | In fact , I did n't know until recent years that it was a person at Philips Records who in fact mentioned DeFries to David , and when he did meet DeFries , Angela was very much in favour of David moving from me to him . |
| 17 | The FDP leader , Erich Mende , only agreed to form a new coalition with the CDU if Adenauer agreed , in writing , that he would resign within two years . |
| 18 | What I am going to miss is the opportunity to pontificate in peace , without let or hindrance , as Punch has let me do for eight years . |
| 19 | The unions said the minister promised them in a private April 19 meeting that the operator 's status would not budge for two years . |
| 20 | To incorporate the various categories of course , it is proposed that the phased transition should consist of three years ' batches of courses . |
| 21 | I could do with 99 years of government-subsidized living . ’ |
| 22 | A few unsprayed crops might survive providing most are sprayed but if none was sprayed , widespread damage would ensure in some years . |
| 23 | Lord James said the funding would grow in subsequent years , and pointed to the constructive support and welcome the policy had received . |
| 24 | What Lyle , Faldo twice and Woosnam can do in successive years has broken whatever invincibility the home players thought they had . |
| 25 | it 's beautiful this is what I 'm gon na do in ten years time |
| 26 | But then the hubbub starts again , and other voices ask me what I 'll do in 20 years ' time . |
| 27 | In Mexico the moon covered the Sun for 6 minutes and 54 seconds ; the next comparable solar eclipse would not occur for 140 years . |
| 28 | Cincinnati Bell Inc reports that the Federal arm of its Cincinnati Bell Information Systems won a systems management contract that could run for five years and be worth up to $41m to support the Federal Transportation Computer Center in Washington DC : the centre supports Federal Highway Administration , US Coast Guard , Federal Transit Administration , Research & Special Programs Administration , the Federal Aviation Administration , and the Federal Maritime Administration . |
| 29 | The contract , worth an estimated £150 million , will run for five years on the Magnus , Thistle and Miller platforms . |
| 30 | Intor is presently conceived as a 600 MW ( thermal ) reactor that would run for 10 years , researching and , we hope , demonstrating the practicability of repeated long pulses burning thermonuclear fuel in a tokamak . |