Example sentences of "[pron] would be [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | On December 28 he would be twenty years old , and he wondered bitterly when he might be allowed to grow up . |
| 2 | It would be fourteen years old now . |
| 3 | It would be six years before that anger would begin to subside , six years of unspeakable anguish for those of ‘ Hebrew persuasion ’ , when unbelievable monstrosities would be inflicted on them , by the end of which half of the world 's Jewry had been murdered . |
| 4 | oh yes , yes , erm it 's very difficult to say I think when it actually exactly fades out , it would be , it would be fifteen years ago anyway , er when one used to find that there , there were no more of these being bought at all |
| 5 | Lord Boyd-Carpenter said that criticism was unhappily ‘ not confined to the other side ’ and it would be many years before the scheme would bear fruit . |
| 6 | His commercial pride badly wounded , Mercer fought off the criticism , but had to endure a harsh winter watching his team struggle in the knowledge that it would be many years before he could contemplate the fire-side warmth of his own undersoil heating . |
| 7 | In two weeks ' time it would be one year since he had first come to Iraq . |
| 8 | Chapman 's prediction that it would be five years before Arsenal won a major honour was not only , with hindsight , amazingly accurate ; it was also meant to be realistic . |
| 9 | To start again from scratch in the USA would mean that it would be five years or more before he had any hope of receiving his doctorate , but in England , with his early research experience behind him , he could complete the degree sooner . |
| 10 | Such is the cost of the initial surgical admission that even if the surgical patients incurred no further costs at all after discharge from hospital it would be five years before the cumulative expenditure associated with sclerotherapy reached that of the operation . |
| 11 | Well it 's certainly , well so that 's ninety , ninety one , ninety two I would n't have thought it would be four years Adrian , they only ever do it three years or five years d do n't they ? |
| 12 | On England 's next tour in 1985–6 , Guyana was carefully omitted from the itinerary , and it would be nine years before they returned — only for the Test to be washed out completely . |
| 13 | This cemented his place in the Test team , although it would be another year or so before he was given the new ball , and then it was just a question of piling up the scalps as the main strike bowler . |
| 14 | The achievement was quite otherwise ; but it would be several years before that could be perceived , and the perception validated . |
| 15 | It would be several years before he was truly fit . |
| 16 | So many men had been killed or wounded in the war , that it would be ten years before another generation would fin the gaps . |
| 17 | Tony Zemaitis told me in ‘ 76 that it would be ten years before it sounded right . |
| 18 | It would be twenty years before he discovered how right he had been . |
| 19 | Whereas things appeared stable in Britain at that time , overseas there existed events of change — in Italy there existed no unity and much of the land was occupied by the forces of Austria , but they were removed and in 1833 , a united Italy was advocated under Papal rule , but that proved not to be successful and it would be some years before Garibaldi was able to form the Italian National Association for the Unification of Italy which only achieved its objective in 1871 . |
| 20 | In the meantime , he said , the French were making genuine progress in building up native forces although it would be some years before the Vietnamese would be competent to defend themselves . |
| 21 | It would be some years before electronics could become the final authority . |
| 22 | Well you 're right yes , it would be this year but I did n't go much at the end of last year did I ? |