Example sentences of "in [num] year i " in BNC.

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1 In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals .
2 Clapton , at No. 36 with It 's Probably Me , a duet with Sting for the movie Lethal Weapon 3 , adds : ‘ Maybe in 10 years I 'll have a family myself , but the pain will never be gone . ’
3 But on the other hand I get $1000 a month tax free for five months every year , and so far in three years I have n't touched a cent of the money .
4 As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’
5 One that I look a lot more like the Prime Minister wearing my reading glasses than the Prime Minister actually looks like the Prime Minister and two , the hidden benefits of wearing your reading glasses , group , here , is that I ca n't see a thing over there and for the first time in ten years I 'm gon na enjoy delivering a speech .
6 In five years I never saw Harriet the worse for drink .
7 I 've done it five , this is the first time in five years I 've had New Year 's Eve off .
8 The subject turned out to be vast and in one year I barely scratched the surface !
9 And when we doubled the company 's turnover in one year I decided to investigate his methods . ’
10 In 15 years I 've never been injured .
11 In four years I fostered one ! and I am proud to say that Fr Liam Durrant , our present Vocations Director , came through my hands — should he be successful , would that make me a grandfather ? !
12 But this would now seem directed against the invalid so I hold back , thinking , in two years I will be at the comprehensive and only five years after that — providing I pass the scholarship exam , which I easily should — I 'll be at boarding school , and then I 'll be free , free to scratch and do whatever I like .
13 If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care .
14 and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way
15 In seven years I had as many new cars , each one more highly powered and larger than the last .
16 This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’
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