Example sentences of "[det] [adj] years [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
| 2 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 3 | They are breaking it apart , and if they were to get another five years they would all but finish the job . ’ |
| 4 | Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know . |
| 5 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 6 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
| 7 | The lesson of the porcupine quills ( and for an actual example of how not to do it read my Zen There was Murder , if after all these years you can find a copy ) is that any part of your book that you do not directly present to the reader ought to be thought out in imaginative terms , just as thoroughly as you have used your imagination to make whatever you have written fully credible . |
| 8 | ‘ After all these years you 'd think he 'd be careful . ’ |
| 9 | Within that two years , any time within that two years you can basically be given the sack for not coming up to the grade or not coming up to scratch or sometimes they prolong your pr probation for another six months so instead of being a probationer constable for two years you 're a probationer constable for two and a half years . |