Example sentences of "in [adj] years [pers pn] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fortunately she was unaware how often in future years she would resent John 's making decisions which involved both of them without consulting her . |
| 7 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 8 | In 100 years they would regard that as pathetic . ’ |
| 9 | In 10 years we 'll be selling 20,000 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In these years he remembered , too , his early concern with the city , recording his debts to Thomson and Davidson . |
| 14 | In these years he was one of a few markedly royalist bishops among a generally Montfortian episcopate . |
| 15 | In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In these years he often changed his address in the East End of London . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | In previous years he had forbidden staff to bring their own booze ‘ so as to avoid making an invidious distinction ’ . |
| 22 | As in previous years it was difficult to monitor the fighting in Cambodia during 1990 , as independent confirmation of conflicting claims was extremely rare . |
| 23 | In later years they were edited by Africans , though European officials in the public Relations Department always had the final say . |
| 24 | But in later years they got a gig and it was far easier on the pony you see with a big heavy man riding a pony is awful tiresome on the pony you see . |
| 25 | In later years we borrowed Blossom , a big Clydesdale-type mare , from John Sayer at West New Houses , and eventually we bought her . |
| 26 | The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was . |
| 27 | In later years she would hit the shins of passers-by with it if they got in her way . |
| 28 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 29 | In later years she suffered badly from varicose veins on her legs , which contributed to her death at the age of 82 . |
| 30 | ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said . |