Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being with the band for 12 years you might think that Marlene would get fed up with their music . |
| 2 | After 5 years you will receive : |
| 3 | After twenty-five years we can indeed see much response to Dei Verbum , but it is still limited . |
| 4 | After 16 years you ought to be fluent in the language and , if you make this a priority now , you 'll be enhancing this phase of your life instead of simply waiting for it to pass . |
| 5 | I think it 's also worth just bearing in mind that we 're talking about only one percent of the erm of the farmed land i in this county , we 're not talking about banning hunting in in er in Leicestershire , we 're talking about what we 're saying on one percent there are tens of thousand of fields in in this county nothing can change overnight , even if this er motion goes through because the tenants will still have the rights to decide , it 's only when you actually start getting to new tenancy agreements that you will be in a position if you wish , to start to change things and therefore I suppose at the end of erm , at the end of five years you might have a hundred or two hundred fields on which this ban will apply but you will still have tens of thousand of fields on which the , the hunt will still be , the hunts in this county will still be free to , erm , to operate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For three years he would supply funds to run the farm , any profits being split equally between Tom and himself . |
| 8 | In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals . |
| 9 | Similarly , we were relying on the vastness of the oceans to dilute and disperse whatever bacteria and viruses allowed into them ; in 30 years we might be regretting it . |
| 10 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 11 | In 10 years we 'll be selling 20,000 . |
| 12 | Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’ |
| 13 | The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent . |
| 14 | In three years she would be sixty — and Alexandra would be twenty-four . |
| 15 | Yet , while the New Popsters produced a stream of memorable hit singles ( Culture Club 's Do You Really Want To Hurt Me , or Duran 's Hungry Like The Wolf ) , within three years they 'd all be defunct , or frantically searching for a new ‘ adult ’ audience . |
| 16 | It never occurred to me that within three years I should hate the Italians with an unrelenting hatred . |
| 17 | For the first time in 11 years you can get nearly two dollars for every £ because the American dollar is so weak . |
| 18 | So in the long run , first of all we saved ourselves an initial risk outlay of a quarter of a million pounds on legal fees , the second thing is that we now have that common land back under control , and within ten years we will recoup all of that money . |
| 19 | That in ten years she should have risen from a frightened , defiant seventeen-year-old to this . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Within five years we should have made substantial progress towards a Herbarium database , integrated with BG-BASE software , and with software for Herbarium loans and labels . |
| 22 | ‘ Within five years I would think we will have a pristine reedbed here again . |
| 23 | Some people might go for your head to begin with but within five years you 'll find that you are the most popular person around . |
| 24 | Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia . |
| 25 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 26 | The governments of the two contracting parties recommend to the legislative bodies of the united Germany that within two years they should deal with the questions regarding amendments or additions to the Basic Law as raised in connection with German unification … |
| 27 | Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% . |
| 28 | But this would now seem directed against the invalid so I hold back , thinking , in two years I will be at the comprehensive and only five years after that — providing I pass the scholarship exam , which I easily should — I 'll be at boarding school , and then I 'll be free , free to scratch and do whatever I like . |
| 29 | If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care . |
| 30 | and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way |