Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well be a mistake for a director to restrict earnings in favour of dividends , however , if he thinks he might want to retire within 13 years . |
| 2 | The Mini Master failed to appear at last year 's Oshkosh because one of the 582 engines failed at 6500 ft 30 minutes after take-off from San Marcos , Texas . |
| 3 | Erm , the storage binder , we , we , er , anticipate that you of course , will wind up with shelves full of storage binders housing various diaries , and you 'll want to know in ten years ' time , which storage binder has your nineteen ninety-four diary , erm , that 's what that label is for . |
| 4 | His belief is that work has to go on all year round , whether or not that means taking on the hazardous and snow-covered Carpathian mountains . |
| 5 | High street sales fell in Novbember and business this month is now expected to remain at last year 's depressed levels , says Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the CBI 's Distributive Trades Panel . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , the upturn remains fragile and is not expected to strengthen until next year . |
| 8 | This has since been supported by an important report from the Battelle Institute in Geneva which broadly suggests that if products such as cars or powerpacks were designed to last for 20 years not only would energy and materials be conserved , but about 65 per cent more work would be created and the jobs would be the interesting , fiddling , diagnostic type jobs that human beings love doing . |
| 9 | The Midland Guaranteed Capital Bond is a unit-linked single premium life assurance policy designed to run for five years . |
| 10 | It is expected to close in five years . |
| 11 | The college 's head of training plans to retire after 30 years service . |
| 12 | I think we 've really got to do something about it and hold a proper supervisory and see what 's going to go on this year because it 's , it gets worse . |
| 13 | Mr Deng has repeatedly promised to retire in recent years , but yesterday was the first time he had reissued the pledge since the Tiananmen Square massacre and a shake-up of the party leadership . |
| 14 | Brilliant , so , you , this is , this year , is this scholarship going to continue in future years or is it just a one off ? |
| 15 | The end result is that pupils switch off any interest in the school , and how they manage to go through five years of their school years still amazes me . |
| 16 | His job is so delicate that to ring birds like this Bill has had to train for two years under the watchful eye of a certified ringer . |
| 17 | Backbench protests and revolts have , however , tended to increase in recent years , reflecting the changing background of MPs , and growing divisions of opinion over policy issues within parties ( see Norton , 1985 , pp. 23–81 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was now reviled by the party that he had helped to lead for fifteen years ; in his own word he was " excommunicated " . |
| 20 | I would be happy to hear from any priest who feels he would like to volunteer for five years or from suitably qualified people who might have some skill to offer . |
| 21 | The area had been going to seed for many years after the ship chandlers who once thrived there went one by one out of business . |
| 22 | Deciding that you want to go out with someone because they happen to fit into this year 's idea of what is good looking is stupid . |
| 23 | Provided the erm the candidate or the student knows what they 're going to do in that year . |
| 24 | They had both agreed to adopt after two years of unfruitful marriage , but decided to bypass the responsibilities of looking after a baby . |
| 25 | This new book , which is about all these and more , was produced to coincide with last year 's exhibition in the new Vitra Design Museum in Weil-am-Rhein . |
| 26 | The flow pattern , and allowed to run for many years of simulated time , generating a sequence of day-to-day ‘ weather ’ , |
| 27 | ‘ Regrettably we have had to live for several years with the threat of these appalling incidents happening . |
| 28 | A major difference of form exists between domestic bonds and sterling eurobonds , although the differences of substance have tended to decline in recent years . |
| 29 | On average , owner-occupiers have tended to marry about one year later and have their first birth about two years later than local authority tenants ( Murphy and Sullivan , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | It was also agreed to review in three years ' time the entire stock of debt to the Paris Club governments , estimated at the end of 1990 to comprise $5,700 million of the total external debt of $10,500 million . |