Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] years [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a valuable piece of equipment , and my hon. Friend may like to know that in the next two or three years we shall proceed with some large modifications to it which we estimate will bring about £4 million worth of work to PBN on the Isle of Wight . |
| 2 | Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency . |
| 3 | ‘ If we did n't shoot them , ’ he says , ‘ then within two or three years they would be so out of hand that we 'd have to give up sheep farming . ’ |
| 4 | In two or three years it could be , believes Farr-Jones . |
| 5 | If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’ |
| 6 | I say thirty , we 've had that either eight or nine years I ca n't re I ca n't remember which , that 's cost us thirty five quid in eight or nine years |
| 7 | The chances are that during the first eight or nine years you may appear to be treading water in the process of proving yourself . |
| 8 | Over a period of 10 or 15 years we will see our soil improving by using this technique . |
| 9 | I see things like senile dementia as being a direct result of restricted breathing over very many years — in 20 , 30 or 40 years you can do to yourself the same sort of thing that happens in an operating theatre if oxygen is withdrawn . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Many Japanese are nationalistic , so even I , when I decided to join Arthur Andersen , thought that after 18 months or two years I would leave and open my own office . |
| 11 | And some years you 'd probably maybe get a few pounds back and sometimes you would er maybe have to pay a few pounds . |
| 12 | ’ But those years he would go into his study afterwards with the coffee her mother made , to smoke his pipe and look over a case , and he shut the door . |