Example sentences of "[adj] year [unc] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Promotion prospects are good and after 2 years ' training your salary should rise to £19,680 or more . |
| 2 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 3 | After a few years ' disgrace they were back living quietly but comfortably in Moscow . |
| 4 | such as this year 's figures you know they 're not paying you to somebody over the phone and expect to remember of course they ca n't so I 've got the detail that I need to keep looking at , and there about that 's about it . |
| 5 | The way their luck has run in this year 's competition it is no idle dream . |
| 6 | The way their luck has run in this year 's competition it is no idle dream . |
| 7 | Erm in order to meet a commitment which is the same as this year commitment then last here increasing last year because this year 's commitment we will not reach this year therefore , we 'll be into deficit ! |
| 8 | If you were selecting for this year 's prize who would you put forward ? |
| 9 | One hundred and twenty dealers , including seventeen from abroad but only two from the U.S. , are taking part in this year 's Biennale which as usual includes four book specialists and a jewellery section ( Blancpain , Bulgari , Chaumet , Eva Segoura , Leysen Frères and Reza Gem ) . |
| 10 | At this year 's exhibition which was held in March , Johnson Matthey Catalytic Systems Division was invited to join the Department of Trade and Industry 's Technology Partnership Initiative . |
| 11 | The Farm seem to be this year 's Band You Love To Hate , but their version of ‘ Do n't You Want Me ? ’ is by no means the throwaway novelty it has been presented as being . |
| 12 | He was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment which he is currently serving in Guanajay Prison . |
| 13 | Now of course I 'm not supposed to admit to these things , being a professional , bo b before I do admit it them as I am going to I have to say that er on an average year er year we do about one thousand five hundred jobs and in that time there will probably be about three or four claimable accidents that we 'll have . |
| 14 | In its fifty years ' existence it has poured out a stream of bishops , priests , doctors , engineers , businessmen , civil servants and politicians . |
| 15 | But in fifty years ' time we could be saying well did Jane pick the right one ? |
| 16 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 17 | After three years ' work he submitted a draft only to have it irrevocably vetoed without any intelligible reasons given or any consideration of amendment . |
| 18 | ‘ In three years ' time we might have still been in very good shape but we must take steps to protect the UK as a manufacturing base . ’ |
| 19 | In three years ' time it is likely that everything in the country , including rugby ticket prices , will have escalated by 45 per cent . |
| 20 | In three years ' time I would be doing |
| 21 | And this is what happens with this , as the years proceed you 're getting interest on the previous year 's interest which includes the tax that you would otherwise , that would otherwise have gone from your account in paying into income tax . |
| 22 | So in three year 's time we 'll back to where we are today , |
| 23 | Oh there was a tremendous variety , but then there were all the same in , erm you look at the er the three light fitting er it hangs down from the ceiling and has three branches out from it and it either has three lights hanging down or three hanging upwards , er with four ordinary bulbs in or candle bulbs in and shades , sometimes they have four , erm , there 's still an awful lot of those about and any lighting shop you look in you 'll still see plenty of those er and yet they 've got a tremendous number of disadvantages , one thing , a lot of them got glass shades , if you break one shade three year 's time you might as well throw away the fitting because you ca n't get another one er , and erm it 's a design that does n't , it does n't lend itself to giving a good lighting in a room at all er , it they , they harsh glassware , the edges of the glass during all round the room and that sort of thing |
| 24 | She decided that a man of sixty years ' experience who , when surprised , let so much of his thoughts show in his face was probably not a very good banker . |
| 25 | Mr Faith adds : ‘ I 'm thinking ahead so that in 25 years ' time my daughter will say to her children ‘ Was n't grandad clever ? |
| 26 | After ten years ' correspondence they venture to meet . |
| 27 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 28 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 29 | I , I would , I would be very surprised if the communists understood how deterministic idea of erm some sort of progression , I think you ca n't really say in about ten years ' time we 're gon na be here |
| 30 | In ten years ' time you can choose to do the following : |