Example sentences of "in [adj] years [pron] " 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 | In eight years he built his television services company , Carlton Communications , to a value of £1 billion . |
| 3 | There may be little rain for ten months of the year — and in some years there may be no rain at all . |
| 4 | No more than nine have been recorded in one winter , however , and in some years none is seen . |
| 5 | However , between 1962 and 1976 breeding was only proved five times , although other breeding season records suggested a population of up to seven pairs ; in some years none was found . |
| 6 | It 's the third time in 2 years his house has been raided and the second in the space of a week . |
| 7 | And there 's also something else that I forgot to bring up and that is that they 're trying to find new ways of removing the gases , and they reckoned that in 2 years there 's going to be an electrical method , an electrical filter , and the lab is 99% efficient . |
| 8 | Similarly , we were relying on the vastness of the oceans to dilute and disperse whatever bacteria and viruses allowed into them ; in 30 years we might be regretting it . |
| 9 | this one was the biggest and best in a long while … for the first time in 30 years it was open to professionals as well as amateurs and drew in two former world champions in Tony Doyle and Danny Clark and three Milk Race winners in … |
| 10 | The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners . |
| 11 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 12 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 13 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 14 | In 10 years we 'll be selling 20,000 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 17 | It was a phrase with many shades of meaning , but essentially in these years it came to refer to that freedom from lay intervention in ecclesiastical appointments and operations which it was Hugh 's special mission to promote . |
| 18 | In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson . |
| 19 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 20 | In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament . |
| 21 | In these years he published on American history and established his own private press , the Guyon House Press , which , however , came to an end in the air raids of December 1940 . |
| 22 | In these years he often changed his address in the East End of London . |
| 23 | As in previous years we shall conduct a nationwide advertising campaign in the early autumn to encourage people to complete and return the electoral registration form . |
| 24 | We have included in our proposal this year twenty thousand revenue effects of a hundred thousand pounds capital bid on traffic calming and other similar measures , something which is very popular around the city , as long as you ask people what they want first and which in previous years we put forward as a revenue bid . |
| 25 | It will vary because er erm er we we ac remember that we have a formula which will expose to what your er erm , nominated income was in previous years what the membership , you know , these have all changed so it could be i I would n't like to say it 's exactly the same could be a bit of a problem ! |
| 26 | In previous years her job has been filled by a preregistration house officer . |
| 27 | In previous years I have n't had a class on the and I thought I had one this year as an experiment and er , pardon me just a second hello yes , that was a little annoying to say the least , cos those students have come in specially for that , yeah , yeah yeah yeah yeah right Oh dear right certainly not well , would it be easier to show them in my office , that 's seven , seven , seven ? |
| 28 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 29 | As in previous years it was difficult to monitor the fighting in Cambodia during 1990 , as independent confirmation of conflicting claims was extremely rare . |
| 30 | In the spring the regional heats were held and as in previous years our expert judges were pleased by the excellent standards . |