Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | We think they should be able to get jobs and hope they will stay for a few years at least . |
| 2 | Moreover , a collective managerial guilt was at work , attempting to ‘ compensate for the forty years of Francoism suffered by the mass of the workforce ’ . |
| 3 | She was embarking on what she would always regard as the pleasantest years of her life . |
| 4 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 5 | Next time , you , your daughter , your grand-daughter or just a neighbour is pregnant , you could think of the thirty-odd years that the NCT has spent safeguarding the interests of parents and babies , and you could get out your cheque book . |
| 6 | The churches were usually brick built , and even when their walls did not crack and warp under the impact of the process , there remains , according to Romanian architects , the threat that their very bricks could crumble within a few years . |
| 7 | But when he said so , hoping that they would find him a job away from the Zoo , they said instead that if he wanted he could work through the remaining years to his retirement as general helper and sweeper . |
| 8 | But although this strategy may work for a few years , there are few parishes which have the physical space for more than two or three new congregations . |
| 9 | I expect the improvements in services that Londoners should see in the coming years to speak for themselves , but there is no room for complacency . |
| 10 | BSL research has only just begun and a great deal more will emerge in the coming years . |
| 11 | She could sleep for a thousand years . |
| 12 | No , you 'd never guess in a thousand years . |
| 13 | All Saints showed one of the major problems that the health service will face over the next years . |
| 14 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 15 | It has dropped much of its collective thinking , which did such damage in the post-war years ; but it still lacks fundamental confidence in the entrepreneur . |
| 16 | Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago . |
| 17 | I think she felt that nothing much would happen for a few years . |
| 18 | This did not happen during the golden years of 1966–80 : over that period GNP grew by an average of 10.4% a year and the workforce by 4.7% . |
| 19 | Conceivably the entire lake could die within a few years . |
| 20 | The courage the British captain had shown on numerous dangerous patrols into enemy waters and the havoc he had wrought against shipping there was something I could never match in a hundred years . |
| 21 | In Herefordshire , for example , they did not change over the forty years ending in 1805 . |
| 22 | Sir Stanley 's only regret is that he did n't play for a few years more . |
| 23 | There are some , like erm , oak trees live five or six hundred years if they 're lucky , pines can live for a thousand years , giant tortoises for two hundred , well these are quite impressive figures , but let's face it it 's not very long , erm , compared with the time that evolution has been at it . |
| 24 | They can leak when new , they can leak after a few years , and they have a guaranteed life of only 15 years . |
| 25 | Can you recall in the past years the keepers ever receiving beer or whisky allowance . |
| 26 | Bruce Springsteen began the Eighties with The River , an uneven double album but one which staked out the broad territory over which he would roam in the ensuing years . |
| 27 | His complete acceptance of the ‘ protest ’ in ‘ Protestant ’ did not come till a few years later when some leading members of his Mount Merrion , Belfast , congregation insisted that he object to the Church 's ‘ street corner boy ’ activities of picketing the Irish Presbyterian Church General Assembly . |
| 28 | Conceptions of a better world over which Christ would reign for a thousand years ( the millennium ) were later secularized to yield visions of a purely earthly utopia , in which a perfect human society might be possible in the absence of coercive measures . |
| 29 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 30 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |