Example sentences of "it would [verb] another [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 2 | ‘ We also enquired about painting the LP sleeve on the side of the plane , but when we found out that it would cost another two and a half grand for the paint job we drew the line . ’ |
| 3 | When he told Perkins his landlord of his case , and that it would be a pity to leave Solomon unfinished , Perkins blanched when he heard it would take another two years , gave him his fat hand and told him if the painting did not sell after two years , and Haydon still could not pay , ‘ … why , sir , we 'll consider what is to be done , so do n't fret , but work . ’ |
| 4 | If permission is granted for the laboratory , then it would take another two to three years to construct , gather data and analyse the results . |
| 5 | In fact it would take another seven . |
| 6 | However , he thought it would take another ten years of satellite measurements before the predicted temperature increases and climate changes could be confirmed . |
| 7 | In other bad news , Japan 's domestic telecommunications giant , NTT , said it would cut another 30,000 jobs between 1994 and 1996 , on top of a planned 40,000 jobs to be lost between 1990 and 1993 . |