Example sentences of "in a [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | In a few years he 'll have developed a big enough ass to occupy my chair . ’ |
| 4 | In a few years I 'd be just like mammy , cleaning for toffs ; and I 'd have weans and it 'd be too late then , and my man 'd be just like daddy was before he died , working a' week and getting drunk on Friday nights and a' day Saturdays . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 6 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 7 | " After all , in a few years you can leave the convent . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 . |