Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [pers pn] would " in BNC.
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| 1 | another mistake in the film was to suggest that in a a short franchise , say of seven years they would need a great deal of working capital , but they wo n't need a great deal of working capital or or share capital , they will actually be running a business where they get subsidy , because if er they 're involving socially necessary lines , like commuter lines , or or rural lines , then we 've made it very clear er that the taxpayers subsidy will continue , because these are loss making businesses , they will be bid they will bid for subsidy , and they will continue to get that subsidy , so they will have the flow of whatever income they can increase , in the passenger franchise , plus the subsidy , plus , and this is a very important point in what we 're doing in the restructuring of British Rail , you see , nobody up till now has said that British Rail is perfect , everyone acknowledges that there are big improvements to be made , the way we 're structuring it will get those improvements because the smaller franchises , not the great big monolithic nationalized industry , the smaller units , ha will be able to identify much more clearly where they can make the savings and where they can increase the revenue . |
| 2 | For three years he would supply funds to run the farm , any profits being split equally between Tom and himself . |
| 3 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 4 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 5 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
| 6 | ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said . |
| 7 | Doubtless in later years she would be glad of that , but for now she was too embarrassed to care . |
| 8 | Charlie 's departure is the first of several , and this event is succeeded by the announcement of a further theme when the rabbi 's thunderings pass over the heads of his congregation and the writer notes : ‘ in later years I would wonder how different my life might have been if a few people , those closest to me , had been frightened — just a little . ’ |
| 9 | Was it a scene which in later years I would look at with nostalgia , even longing ? |
| 10 | When he thought of India in later years he would always see these two men and two bullocks and the leather bag flooding out its water as it settled on the ground . |
| 11 | In later years he would be at the centre oftwo scandalous court cases … |
| 12 | In three years she would be sixty — and Alexandra would be twenty-four . |
| 13 | But he had resolved , when he first took up his great task , that , if God spared his life , before many years he would cause the boy that drove the plough to know more of the Scripture than the ignorant parish clergy of his time . |
| 14 | All in all , it was still impossible to predict that , within six years of the 1911 national transport stoppage , Wilson 's vision of a joint union-Shipping Federation board would be imposed on the industry and that within nine years it would have been accepted voluntarily by the Federation as the normal and accepted method of conducting business with Wilson and his colleagues . |
| 15 | ‘ Within five years I would think we will have a pristine reedbed here again . |
| 16 | If Japan 's lending had continued to expand at the same pace as in recent years it would have overtaken Britain in 1992 . |
| 17 | She likes to shock ; from current trends , the Gothic style pleases her ; in earlier years it would have been punk , or beatnik . |
| 18 | Sometime in the next two to five years they would expect to get together and do what they did with Concorde . |
| 19 | Spain and Portugal stressed during the proceedings their willingness to continue to act as bridges for Latin American access to the European Communities ; the Spanish government also announced that during the next four to five years it would invest over US$14,000 million in the Latin American region . |
| 20 | For seven years he would live in Bloomsbury , learning a trade from Daniel Jones of Broad Street , pawnbroker , silversmith and general salesman . |