Example sentences of "[coord] [vb mod] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Costing around FFr10 million and financed jointly by the Ministry of Culture and Paris City Hall , the renovation will start in 1994 and should last two years . |
| 2 | Nurse Dawn Anderson , 24 , and her boyfriend Maldin Thain , 25 — both from Leeds — are being held in cells at Ceuta , a Spanish enclave on the Moroccan coast , and could face eight years ' jail if convicted . |
| 3 | Reviving the moribund nuclear industry would be tough and unpopular , and could take many years to produce more power . |
| 4 | The headquarters ' engineers want to develop an electric version of the HST , which will involve considerable redesign and could take several years to complete . |
| 5 | The University of Utah team made it clear that they still had a long way to go and would like another year to eighteen months to continue their research before announcing it . |
| 6 | The contract includes 54 schools and will last five years . |
| 7 | The stock of books is now in excess of 9,500 and will increase each year . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm hale , hearty and can do five years , no problem . |
| 9 | THE historic Baltic Exchange building , severely damaged in last week 's IRA bomb blast , will not have to be torn down but may take three years to rebuild , said exchange chairman Peter Tudball yesterday . |
| 10 | Oracle UK has developed a front end customer service system for Telecom Securicor Cellular Radio Ltd 's Cellnet mobile phone users : it runs on Hewlett-Packard Co Unix systems but will take two years to implement across the firm 's sites . |
| 11 | Finding this out is not a matter of one or two studies but can take many years . |