Example sentences of "[verb] in a [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the books mentioned above , its specific content will be superseded in a few years ; but in meantime the book may be able to rescue some future Nobel laureates from becoming otherwise lost in cyberspace . |
| 2 | Intraperitoneal ivalon mimicking peitoneal malignancy after plugged percutaneous liver biopsy is reported in a 20 year old woman with a history of nausea and abdominal disterision . |
| 3 | Under the more inefficient system of the late nineteenth century , it was not unusual for over 2,000 cases to be reported in a single year . |
| 4 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 5 | A fatal submassive necrosis that occurred in a 68 year old lady who had received piroxicam for 15 months is described . |
| 6 | The second failkure occurred in a 77 year old man who presented with severe secretary diarrhoea ( 15 motions per day ) , hypokalaemia , hyponatraemia , and prerenal failure . |
| 7 | The British Museum 's show was originally scheduled to coincide with the publication of its new catalogue of the drawings of Rembrandt and his School , due to appear in a few year 's time . |
| 8 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 9 | Information services were maintained and increased demand from the UK and overseas met in a difficult year . |
| 10 | The Judicial Statistics contain a statement of the average amount at which bills are taxed in a particular year . |
| 11 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 12 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
| 13 | Due to wartime conditions the peasantry got the same amount of agricultural machinery over the years 1915–21 that they had been able to buy in a single year prior to the World War . |
| 14 | The book was a success : 500,000 copies were sold in a few years , and it was translated into all the major European languages . |
| 15 | No , you 'd never guess in a thousand years . |
| 16 | ARCO may have lost some of its glamour , but with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia performing an important task in educating a local market in international art , it is difficult to believe that the leading galleries will not return in a future year . |
| 17 | Assignments will include teaching and supervising research in a post-professional graduate program , and teaching in a three year professional Bachelor of Architecture program . |
| 18 | Assignments will include teaching and supervising post-professional graduate students , and teaching in a three year professional Bachelor of Architecture program . |
| 19 | Kathy I should hate to live in the house my grandfather lived in a hundred years ago ! |
| 20 | This year 's donations were the largest given in a single year . |
| 21 | This same attitude has underlain much of the industrial conflict during this century , and was to Tawney , and others , a ‘ disgrace even it was explicable in terms of the evils sown and ripened in a 150 years of capitalist morality , ( see Norman Dennis and A. H. Halsey , English Ethical Socialism , Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1988 , p. 163 ) . |
| 22 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 23 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
| 24 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 25 | On the 14th of February 1826 Knott and Taylor partnered in a 21 year lease ( from the Rt . |
| 26 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 27 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 28 | At first , this largely involved the search for loop-holes in central government legislation : if , for example , the rules suggested that future grant depended on spending in a particular year , then it was possible with little difficulty to prepare the accounts to show that spending had been higher or lower that year ( whichever was the required answer ) , More important , perhaps , as time went on , it become common for councils and their treasurers to seek new sources of funding which were not covered by the rules or were covered by different rules . |
| 29 | And how how many haystacks would you have in a good year . |
| 30 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |