Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [noun] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , he 's quite a handsome guy in his own way , is n't he , as well as being disgustingly wealthy , and after two years love-games can become depressingly boring , ca n't they ? ’ |
| 2 | Given the long dormancy of the virus , some people now in monogamous relationships of several years standing could have become HIV positive before they met their present partner , and be completely unaware of this fact . |
| 3 | For many years caterers could obtain only dried pasta . |
| 4 | For both these reasons , there is a high likelihood that with advancing years wives will be widowed and will find themselves living alone . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Michael Baly , president of the American Gas Association , reckons that within ten years gas could be a substitute for 2 billion barrels of oil — an eighth of current American oil consumption . |
| 7 | To decide what the company should be like in five years time may not solve a crisis that is looming up next month . |
| 8 | I 'm also hoping to put in time capsules , so people in 150 years time will know what what was happening in Southmoor and the locality . |
| 9 | In four years Henry may , at best , have added about £100,000 per annum to his ordinary revenue , and fairly soon the taxpayers had called a halt to further intervention abroad . |
| 10 | In two years Gould could not possibly hope to cover all the areas he guessed would prove rewarding . |
| 11 | For five years William would be instructed in the art of ornamental gold-engraving ; Mr. Ashdown 's side of the bargain was to provide meat , drink and lodging , leaving the boy 's father to find wearing apparel and arrange for washing and mending to be done . |
| 12 | Over those years Eliot would visit him during what became regular trips to the United States ; he also wrote a number of letters to those in authority in order to ease his conditions : he talks about the time Pound should be allowed to spend alone , for example , and the condition of the buildings in which he was confined . |