Example sentences of "[that] in [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a sobering thought that in a million years or so , the Thames will break through somewhere around Poplar High Street and turn it into a proper island . |
| 2 | Little did they guess that in a few years ' time they would be telling their friends and relatives about the superstar who used to live next door in the suburbs . |
| 3 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
| 4 | It 's safe to say that in a few years time they will be playing Las Vegas . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Margaret I hope you do n't mind my saying this , but are n't you forgetting that in a few years Dickie 'll be grown up ? |
| 6 | The grim alternative is that in a few years many more specialties will be in the position of thoracic medicine and more junior doctors will spend even longer in the training grades . |
| 7 | But once the technology becomes more refined , I definitely think that in a few years you 'll have a lot of people who do n't touch chemicals at all . |
| 8 | He used to say that in a few years his uncle would retire ; then he would be in control . ’ |
| 9 | But once the technology becomes more refined , I definitely think that in a few years you 'll have a lot of people who do n't touch chemicals at all . |
| 10 | He says that in a few years gas will become expensive , and coal will be waiting in the wings as a cheap form of energy . |
| 11 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 12 | It is a tremendous satisfaction to record that in the following years this changed . |
| 13 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 14 | ‘ It is true that in the eighteen years she has been here I have never heard her speak . |
| 15 | This , it was argued , suggested that in the first years of life the two hemispheres have similar linguistic abilities and that the left side became dominant only as speech itself developed . |
| 16 | Indeed so high was their reputation for self-denial in this respect that in the first years of the twentieth century the brothers Paul and Jules Cambon , French ambassadors in London and Berlin respectively , entrusted their private correspondence regularly to the British diplomatic bag rather than sending it through the French ministry of foreign affairs or the French post office : if either of these channels had been used it would almost certainly have been opened and read . |
| 17 | The test of outrage was also considered , and was countered by evidence that in the two years from July 1973 to June 1975 , the film had been shown in 475 cinemas before an audience of approximately one and a half million people without a single complaint to the police or any local authorities until the present case . |
| 18 | While it is comparatively easy to accept that in the primary years children have particular and specific qualities and that effective learning is most likely to take place in an environment which meets their intellectual , physical , social and emotional needs , it is much more difficult to define the components which make the learning environment effective . |
| 19 | It is clear from Clarkson 's History that in the early years of the anti-slave trade agitation local organisations were established through existing religious networks ( an example would be the Quaker Lloyds in Birmingham ) or contact by Clarkson or others with a small group of prominent individuals who already had an interest in the issue . |
| 20 | None the less , given the pressures on the BEA at the time , it is perhaps understandable that in the early years speed ( which proved elusive ) and reliability ( which they achieved ) were given priority over efficiency and economy . |
| 21 | There can be no doubt that in the early years of the twentieth century the use of revolvers was widespread among adult mobsters in London 's criminal underworld , and that feuds between rival outfits were not uncommonly settled by gun battles in the open streets . |
| 22 | Since one of the functions of the project was to stimulate library awareness and development among all schools , and since as the project progressed more schools made active attempts to achieve necessary thresholds for inclusion , it follows that in the early years , appropriate schools were sometimes hard to find . |
| 23 | Just making the point that in the early years , your income will be less , then there 's a crossover point , because the value of the asset grows , and so does the yield on the fund . |
| 24 | It has been estimated that in the early years of civil registration in some parts of England up to 15 per cent of births were not registered . |
| 25 | It claims that in the five years to the end of 1988 Pearl 's new annual premium business rose by an average of 3.7 per cent a year against a UK market average of 13 per cent a year . |
| 26 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ? |
| 27 | Pinchbeck acknowledges that in the five years since he left , Magnus has undergone interesting change . |
| 28 | Mr Ackerman stressed that in the five years the 20-pupil day school had been run by the Mannafields Christian Education Association at Carberry , near Musselburgh , East Lothian , no pupil had been punished in this way . |
| 29 | The first and most important consideration is that in the forty years since 9 August 1945 , despite the fact that all the nuclear powers have been involved in wars at one time or another , nuclear weapons have not once been used militarily . |
| 30 | This discovery does make the point that trade had been established and there is no reason to think that in the closing years of his reign , when Cunobelinus was showing strong pro-Roman tendencies these commercial links with the Roman world would not have been fostered . |