Example sentences of "[adj] years [art] [noun sg] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years a man used to come in and do the deed , but Uncle got on with it himself later round by the stable , using a humane killer . |
| 2 | After a few years a department may be left with serious gaps in its library and a load of superannuated computing equipment . |
| 3 | So far the birds in this country are being reared solely for sale as breeding pairs , but it 's hoped in the next few years the stock will be large enough to sell the birds for their meat . |
| 4 | The basis of that conception must be that citizenship begins at twenty-one ; that up to that age all boys and girls are wards of the State and are to be regarded as in a state of tutelage ; and that during these twenty-one years no effort must be spared to give each one according to his capacities , and limited by no other considerations , the fullest opportunity to develop every innate power . |
| 5 | The funds made available through the Farm and Horticultural Development Scheme will be a sound national investment but does it make sense to embark on a programme with a possibility that perhaps after six years the land might be allocated to forestry ? |
| 6 | It had been my cherished wish , if our circumstances had allowed , to create a ‘ Balancing Fund ’ so that in future years the Institute would not be wholly dependent on forecasting expenditure on the basis of income it had yet to receive . |
| 7 | He pointed out that costs formerly allocated to the President no longer applied and that in future years the grant would require to be reduced . |
| 8 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 9 | Over the next three years the museum will spend $10 million to shift 1,000 works into a coherent scheme embracing the whole of Western civilisation since the Middle Ages . |
| 10 | Within three years the company could have a complete range of hi-fi goods , based on its own radical designs , Szeliga says . |
| 11 | This was a strange rare way of conserving a Corps : perhaps it was a Pickle , as for Beefe , whose Saltness in so many years the Lead might sweeten and render insipid . |
| 12 | Fourteen years The tenant will be entitled ( in certain circumstances ) to compensation under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37 , equal to the production of the appropriate multiplier and twice the rateable value of the holding if : ( 1 ) during the whole of the fourteen years immediately preceding the termination of his tenancy , premises being or comprised in the holding have been occupied for the purposes of a business carried on by the occupier or for those and other purposes ; and ( 2 ) if during those fourteen years , there was a change in the occupier of the premises , the new occupier was the successor to the business carried on by the old occupier ( Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s37(2) , ( 3 ) ) . |
| 13 | In good years a surplus might be produced which could be traded for money . |
| 14 | After 50 years the waste will probably be buried deep underground . |
| 15 | In 25 years an extension will be built , extending the storage capacity until the year 2050 . |
| 16 | Certainly with the additional liability of a periodic tax every ten years no truster will settle funds in a discretionary trust if he can achieve his aims in any other way . |
| 17 | In a billion years the universe will be on the knife 's edge of expansion or collapsing again , depending on its critical density . |
| 18 | For fourteen or fifteen years no man could have been less conscious of himself and of his own life , less informed about the world than Antoine Bloye . |
| 19 | Maybe in ten , fifteen years the situation may change , but I do n't think enlargement for enlargement 's sake is going to be of benefit to the E C. |
| 20 | Within two years the company will have mainframe-class machines based on many cheap CMOS processors , linked together by a high speed switch similar in concept to the RISC-based SP1 ( CI No 2126 ) . |
| 21 | From nine months to four years a child can use a seat in the back that faces forwards and which can be secured by rear seat belts or their anchorage points . |
| 22 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |
| 23 | Does the Secretary of State realise that we were promised 20 years ago that after 20 years the toll would be abolished ? |
| 24 | Well , in seven years a lot can happen . |
| 25 | Haymo found on a tour of the diocese that the Palace at Halling with its farming implements and utensils was in a much dilapidated state and he is quoted as saying the state of the property of the diocese was so bad that in seven years the damage could not be made good . |
| 26 | Miliutin pointed out that if 125,000 men were enlisted annually but required to serve for no more than seven or eight years , in seven years the country would possess a trained reserve of 750,000 men . |