Example sentences of "[conj] [num] years ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American experience makes it reasonable to expect that , as the effects of the new advertisements and quotations regulations take hold , awareness of typical APRs will slowly climb so that in maybe seven or eight years ' time most people do have a reasonable idea of them . |
| 2 | I do n't think the consumer would ev say that and I think sometimes one forgets er people forget the consumer I mean the erm er but obviously by us going onto the Hong Kong route we are going to reduce British Airways and Cathay Pacific 's profits on that route considerably , we we think that because our costs are considerably less than British Airways , and I suspect considerably less than Cathay Pacific , that the player that er could be around in thirty or forty years ' time is Virgin Atlantic . |
| 3 | For instance , on the basis of last year 's births , we can make a fairly accurate assessment of the number of first-year secondary school places required in 11 or 12 years ' time , because this depends mainly on fairly stable child mortality patterns . |
| 4 | While salaries for newly qualifieds may be around £28,000 to £35,000 with a car , a director with five or six years ' experience in the industry may get £75,000 plus . |
| 5 | It will fail to ask the rather broader and much more important question about retailing : how is the great British public likely to be doing its shopping in five or 10 years ' time ? |
| 6 | They should look at the Europe that will exist in five or 10 years ' time , at a Community with 18 or 20 members and perhaps even more , and at the interests that we have in common — security , defence , foreign policy , the environment , prosperity and peace in the world . |
| 7 | Eleven years of trapping has demonstrated that it is inadvisable to generalise from two or three years ' experience . |
| 8 | Though space is being yielded by the Department of Printed Books , it seems unlikely there will be room for more than two or three years ' acquisitions . |
| 9 | We shall know a great deal more about such matters in two or three years ' time , if money can be raised to commission an end-of-the-century version of The Architect and his Office . |
| 10 | Will this extraordinary advertising culture by just as visible in two or three years ' time ? |
| 11 | In two or three years ' time , high-end personal computer-type boxes will look quite alike , he thinks . |
| 12 | Now the fact that it might be just a little two up , two down who gives a monkey 's because in , next year , two or three years ' time , you 're walking with the removal van into this house , how will you feel ? |
| 13 | Lawyers called these leases " building leases " , which were typically of sixty or ninety years ' duration . |
| 14 | But we can not estimate so reliably how many of these will seek university places in 17 or 18 years ' time since this will be affected so much by changeable social and economic factors . |
| 15 | I 've seen fellows with nine or ten years ' service , saying : ‘ I 'm leaving you . |
| 16 | If this is what they need now , this is what you give them , er , on the understanding that perhaps they only have it for fifteen or ten years , but in fifteen or ten years ' time , they might well be able to afford to extend it and pay more . |
| 17 | I could imagine institutions , for example , being told to be in a different position perhaps in five years ' time or ten years ' time , and being able to do this by a variety of means , working towards it , whereas , it seems to me it 's a very much harder problem , although it 's , it 's understandable as I said in the , in the present circumstances , to actually be able to take on this properly and do a proper job of change in a time scale of perhaps one year or maybe even less than that in some cases . |
| 18 | In fact , research in America has shown that many very happy and successful marriages , whether of five or thirty-five years ' duration , include very little sex . |
| 19 | Otherwise judges are appointed from the ranks of barristers of at least ten or fifteen years ' standing and are likely to have had at least twenty years ' practice at the bar . |
| 20 | McFarlane talked of a ‘ Rabelasian cast to messages ’ and of ‘ the creation of romantic kinds of activities ’ ; he had four or five years ' experience , he noted wearily , ‘ of reading things which I knew not to be compatible with the realities of things . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed , it is not uncommon to hear a tournament player of four or five years ' standing confess that she has not yet given herself a fair chance . |
| 22 | In several cases , internal funding was still so low that even £2,000 was equal to four or five years ' library capitation . |
| 23 | You 've got to try and guess what 's going to happen in three , four or five years ' time . |
| 24 | It has usually cost them less than 0.5% to raise capital by issuing dollar-denominated warrants ( ie , Eurobonds with warrants that give the buyer the right to buy the shares at fixed prices in four or five years ' time ) in London and then using swaps to get the money back into yen . |
| 25 | No one denies that if the story became available it would be seized but , while an autobiography would have been an automatic bestseller at the time of his release , would it still be wonderful if one or five years ' time ? |
| 26 | erm It 's often long-range , strategic research which people are doing which erm it will contribute in ten or twenty years ' time , provided that industry picks it up appropriately . |
| 27 | I hope that he and his fellow enthusiasts of today will derive as much pleasure from looking back in 50 or 60 years ' time as I do from my battered old album . |
| 28 | It means that Britain will no longer have a permanent presence in the Security Council in 10 or 15 years ' time . |
| 29 | She had been teaching New Zealand , erm , not quite such a long training so she 's had three or four years ' experience . |
| 30 | The company is expected to offer shares to its employees when it is allowed to do so , and a Stock Market flotation could follow in ‘ two , three or four years ' time ’ according to Mr Smith . |