Example sentences of "[verb] [that] in [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because how does Philip know that in five years ' time , I 'm not going to ring him up and say , hey you know when you recommended me to invest my money in the Japanese fund , well it 's just gone through the bottom of the market . |
| 2 | Several mentioned that in recent years the rate of voluntary leaving had decreased so that they were no longer able to rely upon increasing or slowing down the rate of recruitment to maintain their labour forces at the desired level . |
| 3 | I am pleased to report that in recent years commercial and retail development in Belfast have reached unprecedented levels . |
| 4 | How far present-day societies are likely to proceed along this road is a matter of debate ( and I shall return to the question in Chapter 6 ) , but at the least it has to be recognized that in recent years the idea of political action has been very substantially broadened , so that there is already a quite widespread awareness of the variety of ways in which individuals and groups of individuals can assert their dissent from the policies of government at all levels ( for example , the revolt against the poll tax in Britain ) and bring into the arena of public debate alternative policies . |
| 5 | It has been said that in recent years his allegiance shifted from Sisley to Monet ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never seen that in twenty years of football , ’ he said . |
| 7 | But Sweden has also promised that in 20 years its emissions of carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) , the main greenhouse gas , will have dropped to 1986 levels . |
| 8 | And there 's also something else that I forgot to bring up and that is that they 're trying to find new ways of removing the gases , and they reckoned that in 2 years there 's going to be an electrical method , an electrical filter , and the lab is 99% efficient . |
| 9 | Paul commented that in previous years Leeds seats would have been occupied long before kick-off , unlike this year where there were still gaps at the Leeds end before kick-off . |
| 10 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
| 11 | If the extremely unlikely event transpires that in three years he has discovered nothing of his partner 's past , then why should he complain ? |
| 12 | And what will he do to ensure that in future years the system pays up at the beginning of the year , not a third of the way through it or later ? |
| 13 | Firstly I have never seen a more clearer er grant from the government to actually let you build houses this year , this is whole point of th th this should happen and if we do n't take it up I believe that in future years to come we shall regret it very , very strongly indeed . |
| 14 | I believe that in 100 years people will look back on the middle of the twentieth century as a nightmare period when mankind suddenly discovered the means to destroy itself , and was seriously considering using this as a preferable alternative to reconciling differing political views . |
| 15 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
| 16 | In one 10-year period from the mid-1970s it rose from just over £30,000 to nearly £250,000 , and analysts calculate that in 20 years - when all the men it was specifically designed to help will be long dead — it will be worth well over £1m and increasing in value at more than £100,000 a year . |
| 17 | If the food-crisis peaks of 1795 , 1800 – 1 and 1812 – 13 are disregarded — for it can be firmly concluded that in those years , as in 1739 – 40 and 1766 – 7 , the living standards of wage-earners must have been substantially , though temporarily , reduced — then the general real-wage trend of the war years suggests no marked movement either way . |
| 18 | There is some debate about exactly how flexible bonus payments have been and some argue that in recent years bonuses and basic wages have followed similar trends . |
| 19 | Here we simply remark that in recent years the idea that a linguistic string ( a sentence ) can be fully analysed without taking ‘ context ’ into account has been seriously questioned . |
| 20 | This means that in future years the revenue accounts effectively treat the use of these assets as being free . |
| 21 | Does my hon. Friend agree that in recent years the income of farmers in Scotland , particularly those in the less-favoured areas , has fallen substantially ? |
| 22 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 23 | And I see it as part of my problem in education is to erm , change the attitudes of the the boys who are , you know , at a very young , and I 'll be sorry to think that in ten years time they would still be having erm the rather arrogant attitudes that they have ! |
| 24 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 25 | Sgt Ian Martin of Darlington police said that in previous years when BST started at 2am Greenwich mean time there had been no need to check clubs closed down on time . |
| 26 | If he managed economically he hoped that in five years ' time , if the public continued to buy what he wrote , he would retrieve more than he lost . |
| 27 | I think we will be able to say that in ten years time the microprocessor will really be with us . |
| 28 | The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners . |
| 29 | Yet research into contemporary demography and statistics soon demonstrates that in recent years there have been dramatic changes in trends and patterns of marriage , divorce and cohabitation . |
| 30 | Er the County Council demonstrates that in five years the Hertfordshire erm etc , erm now I think Chairman we do have erm a pretty good strategy into the consultation rather better than the one for the erm current year which was started erm by the previous erm administration . |