Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Home computers can also be found in one in five households , compared with just one in eight seven years ago . |
| 2 | Yeah well you could go and talk to them and see what they what they thought you ought to be doing in that two years . |
| 3 | In that 13 years manufacturing output under his Government in Britain has gone up less than 6 per cent . |
| 4 | Parson and White 's Gazeteer of Westmorland , published in 1829 six years after his death , records him ‘ residing some years at Keswick before settling in Ambleside ’ , which can not be true since he was certainly in London in the 1790's . |
| 5 | With pupils in lower secondary years their enjoyment of pretence is not yet impaired by age . |
| 6 | It would be a shame , but if the balance is not redressed , I would be surprised if Bunty were around in another 10 years . |
| 7 | The cuckoo flower was there too , a lovely pale pink or pastel mauve which was one of the commonest wild flowers in Britain fifty years ago , but in another fifty years may be difficult to find . |
| 8 | But I have a sneaking feeling that in another five years ' time I 'll be reviewing the GR-100 and that will be the one … |
| 9 | And er there was a stage when we came to the , where we really decided we 'd have to earmark different streets , how far we were gon na go in the centre of the town , because people were beginning to get grants for altering houses , and then in another five years time the council , the council were having to buy back these houses to redevelop the area . |
| 10 | She had loved Vitor from their moment of meeting , she was in love with him now and — Ashley thumped at her pillow — she would doubtless still be besotted by the man in another thirty years . |
| 11 | I suspect that in another hundred years ' time people will look back and wonder at our apparent inability to regard sound recordings as permanent media , like books , music , or paintings . |
| 12 | The administrators Morton Thornton are now planning a complete restructuring of the company they are confident they can turn Carpenter 's around so that it will be trading in another hundred years . |
| 13 | If , after a stiff swig of nectar , we were to watch further developments , we 'd find that in another 100,000 years or so , or even longer , exactly the same thing would happen again , and the compass would swing back suddenly to its original position . |
| 14 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
| 15 | What we 've got now is what we 're going to have in another ten years time ? |
| 16 | The fruits of diversification will be clear even to the most sceptical observers in another few years , they claim , when the company 's new subsidiaries will help Mercedes build still better cars while the company 's ability to throw resources into fast-growing high-tech areas will give it an edge in those markets . |
| 17 | It 's expected work will start next year , with the first trains going through in another 2 years . |
| 18 | Do they want to plan for organic change or reap the fruit of a retail giant that might , no matter what the quality of the architecture , be redundant in another 25 years ? |
| 19 | With two partners , he created a vast financial empire of over half a billion dollars in some six years . |
| 20 | The opening of a score of nuclear sites in some six years by conventional administrative procedures alone was inconceivable . |
| 21 | But we 've increased the capacity of that pipe , so that if we have some more money eventually , we can er replace the final five yards from our meter to the Severn Trent water main er in some future years , to improve the pressure problems down the whole pipeline . |
| 22 | Its growth rate has been outstripped for much of the time by that of France and even , in some recent years , by that of the United Kingdom . |
| 23 | They sign the cheques , he writes the songs and the result of this amicable , arm's-length relationship is ‘ Music ’ , Omar 's second album and — given that his Talkin Loud debut was originally released on Kongo Dance — his first new material in some three years . |
| 24 | I am confident that in some ten years time , Save The Children will be a strong pan-European organisation , perhaps the strongest as such within the European Community . |
| 25 | Effectively Britain will be exporting an epidemic of tobacco-related diseases , which will be seen in some 20–30 years . |
| 26 | I mean , we do n't stand still at this because what will seem a very good service this year will look like a lousy service in five years ' time so let's not pretend the fact that we have n't achieved everything we 've achieved this year in some previous years means that we have n't made any improvements because I think one of the key areas where in fact er improvements have been made in previous years , and to a certain extent , one could say reading this I was worried by an apparent admission of very much reference or very much expenditure on them in the provision of day centres , because I think that a key element in care in the community and the fact that today so successfully this year has been the fact that a major number of th and I do n't think there 's any disagreement over this , a number of day centres , very efficient and very effective day centres , were developed , funded , provided mainly in the conurbation areas and I think Mr is right to highlight the fact that , as so often happens in these instances , it 's people who live in conurbations who get the best deal because it 's , it 's more economical , it 's easier to provide a centre for a large number of people than it is for a small number of people . |
| 27 | Furthermore , expenditure in future financial years is now going to be difficult . |
| 28 | BRIGHTON : In six verbose years as leader of his party , Neil Kinnock has not a memorable phrase to his credit . |
| 29 | But in 10 short years at the turn of the century all this changed and the ‘ common , innocent , friendly ’ house fly was subjected to the most vicious of character assassinations . |
| 30 | But Wordsworth 's achievement in these eight years can not be written off , even though the poet himself tried , as the years went by , to minimize it . |