Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [adj] years [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Unless other clubs fell by the wayside for financial reasons , our plan to put a stop to relegation for another two years might produce 26 clubs in the third division by the end of the 1994–95 season . |
| 2 | What is more , we are told unequivocally that only those who are fortunate enough to live for another 30 years will be able to find out the purchase price of those companies . |
| 3 | I would not have thought a youth of such tender years would have been able … |
| 4 | The cuckoo flower was there too , a lovely pale pink or pastel mauve which was one of the commonest wild flowers in Britain fifty years ago , but in another fifty years may be difficult to find . |
| 5 | But Wordsworth 's achievement in these eight years can not be written off , even though the poet himself tried , as the years went by , to minimize it . |
| 6 | The committee recommended that the curriculum in these two years should consist of a core and an elective area . |
| 7 | Looking coldly at the figures and at the Plafond Limité de Classement ( PLC ) of 13,000 kilograms per hectare , it would seem that most of Champagne 's production in those two years should have been sent off to the distillery . |
| 8 | The pace of change over those 20 years would be remarkable ; and the vital first steps rapidly followed the outbreak of war with Spain in spring 1898 . |