Example sentences of "[pers pn] would [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised him I 'd go this year though . |
| 2 | In fact I 'd wait four days , I 'd wait four years to watch it on T V it 's so crap . |
| 3 | To 1967 , I 'd add another year , an equivalent point of take-off — 1979 ( punk energy making its first altercations with black dance production , dub and funk , its first trysts with electronics , its first stabs at multi-media performance ) . |
| 4 | He said the terms should run concurrently so that she would serve four years . |
| 5 | I 'd have turned it down without asking except I thought you might be interested — ah — because … ’ he shrugged , unable to find a tactful way of saying that this was the best offer she would get all year . |
| 6 | Later in your life you would spend many years attempting to disprove this thesis . |
| 7 | ‘ Because they would unlock fifty years ’ worth of royalties on Tristram Abberley 's poems ? ’ |
| 8 | ( They would marry two years later , some months after she had given birth to twin boys . |
| 9 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 10 | I mean , we thought it 'd rain this year so it 's more |
| 11 | ‘ I thought it 'd last another year , but wi ’ the rain this summer I shall have to get it fixed . |
| 12 | With that came a warning that if it were not paid within six months , he would serve three years extra . |
| 13 | On 7 April Irwin was writing to the Secretary of State that the Mahatma 's health was poor and that his horoscope had predicted he would die that year , which would be , he said , ‘ a very happy solution ’ . |
| 14 | It would last six years and would cost , at their own rough estimate , three million six hundred thousand and a few odd francs . |
| 15 | If England 's trip comes off it would follow 10 years after they played the last official Test against the Springboks at Johannesburg and would be the perfect dress-rehearsal if South Africa 's strong bid to stage the 1995 World Cup succeeds . |
| 16 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 17 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 18 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 19 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 20 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 21 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 22 | However , it has been suggested that on the present basis it would take 46 years to clear the backlog in housing disrepair … |
| 23 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 24 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 25 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 26 | It has been alleged that at this rate it would take 300 years to examine all the programmes outlined in Table 15.1 above . |
| 27 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 28 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |
| 29 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 30 | A standard monetarist prediction of that decision would have been that it would produce two years of boom , followed by growing inflation and balance of payments deficit . |