Example sentences of "[art] [num] years [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Pentagon hardliners , who have opposed a chemical weapons ban on the grounds that it could not be verified adequately , suggested the idea of seeking continued production of the new ‘ binary ’ weapons during the 10 years it would take to eliminate all arsenals .
2 Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build .
3 By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 .
4 The overall cost of the project over the ten years it will run is estimated to be in the region of £1.9 million , and an appeal for sponsorship by commercial sources and private individuals is to be launched early in 1993 .
5 The national screening programme will enable all women between the ages of 20 and 64 to be tested at least every five years you should have received your invitation for screening by 1993 .
6 There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there .
7 We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over .
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