Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] year ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Number of new sales/new customers ( compared with colleagues or with last year 's figures ) |
| 2 | I do not want to know what she intends doing in a year 's time or in 10 years ' time , because she will not be in government then . |
| 3 | Nevertheless he faces a huge step up when he sets out from Chester in 123rd position in a race that will decide the final destination of the FIA World Rally Championship , which must go to either France 's Didier Auriol , or Carlos Sainz of Spain , or to last year 's RAC winner Juha Kankkunen . |
| 4 | In an interview , Mr Baig alleged that during last year 's general election campaign , three cabinet members had received financial assistance from him . |
| 5 | Birth Control Trust spokeswoman Madeleine Simms pointed out that after last year 's survey was published , the DHSS said it was unlikely the results of a single poll would be a suitable basis for new and highly controversial legislation . |
| 6 | But' — and he laughed — ‘ do n't forget that in five years ' time you will have changed again . ’ |
| 7 | If he managed economically he hoped that in five years ' time , if the public continued to buy what he wrote , he would retrieve more than he lost . |
| 8 | Mr Damant predicts that in five years ' time , if the ASB pursues unfudgeability rather than ‘ correct accounting principles ’ , it will be faced with dissatisfaction because accounts will not show a true and fair view . |
| 9 | The 40 staff execute 3,500 trades a day on average , and Vine-Lott has set himself a target of more than doubling that in five years ' time , including a considerable proportion on behalf of other institutions , such as the Halifax Building Society , for whom it is already doing work , as well as other brokers and banks . |
| 10 | Because how does Philip know that in five years ' time , I 'm not going to ring him up and say , hey you know when you recommended me to invest my money in the Japanese fund , well it 's just gone through the bottom of the market . |
| 11 | It may be the case , as some transgenics junkies are claiming , that in 25 years ' time , all chickens on the market will be transgenic but this sounds uncannily similar , in its arrogant implausibility , to the famous Fifties claim that nuclear power would make electricity so cheap it could n't be metered . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | It was reported that on New Year 's Day these were closed by 3.30 p.m . |
| 14 | Why does not he admit that since last year 's Budget more than 500,000 people have been added to the dole queue ? |
| 15 | Central South will be following the team 's progress over in the States and through next year 's display season in the UK . |
| 16 | After Franco 's death and after 38 years ' absence he returned to Spain in 1977 , at the invitation of Suárez , and was in 1978 appointed president of the Catalonian regional government . |
| 17 | Party Politics , who stands at 18 hands , has had a history of wind problems and before and after last year 's National he had two operations to improve his breathing . |
| 18 | Promotion prospects are good and after 2 years ' training your salary should rise to £19,680 or more . |
| 19 | Unfortunately for Mr Wilson , that comeback will be tepid — and probably hardly noticeable until after next year 's gubernatorial election . |
| 20 | The course is of three years ' duration if French is taken as a minor subject and of four years ' duration if taken as a major or joint subject . |
| 21 | Last year 12 police posts were filled with civilians and under this year 's programme 20 more officers will be released for crimebusting duties . |
| 22 | Featuring the best of their singles from '82s ‘ Love Is A Stranger ’ up to and including last year 's ‘ Angel ’ . |
| 23 | The document shows that , allowing for deficits carried forward to this year and other factors , and before this year 's savings , Bloomsbury has to save £8m to balance its budget , Lewisham £6.6m , Riverside £3.1m , Wandsworth £2.8m , Hampstead £1.4m , West Lambeth £1.5m , with the rest , bar Greenwich , facing forecast deficits of at least £1m . |
| 24 | A ‘ baby boom ’ now could provide a large number of teachers in 20 years ' time ; but if in 15 years ' time , the birth rate were to be low , there would be insufficient children for these teachers to teach ( unless pupil/teacher ratios were to be changed ) . |
| 25 | I wonder if in ten years ' time Mr. Duggan will be looking back at videos of ‘ England 's glory years ’ and then be writing to RW&P to remind us of the lock forward who elbowed his opposite number from behind , perforating his eardrum , or the flankers who really do n't seem to mind where their feet or hands come into contact with their opponents . |
| 26 | International availability of lines is increasingly widespread , and in two years ' time ISDN will become the standard business line offering from BT . |
| 27 | The ship building industry has also been in decline for a decade or more , and in each year 's report has documented well that decline . |
| 28 | Hal B. Wallis , who hired me , was a very shrewd man who recognized that the studio system was over and in five years ' time it would no longer be there . ’ |
| 29 | A Publicity Committee was formed to attract more members and on New Year 's Eve 1946–47 what appears to be the first such Social at the Club was held and included ‘ modern dancing to a radiogram ’ . |
| 30 | No amount of persuasion would induce her to stay with us for more than a few days before she 'd vanish again to pursue her old habits , and on New Year 's Day 1967 , the police called for the last time . |