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

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1 A fatal submassive necrosis that occurred in a 68 year old lady who had received piroxicam for 15 months is described .
2 Steers ( 1953 ) has quoted examples from the east coast : in Holderness in a thirty-seven year period towards the end of the last century the average loss from the coast was a strip 65 m ( 215 ft ) wide , or an average annual loss of about 1.75 m ( 6 ft ) , while the district suffering the most severe erosion lost 82 m ( 273 ft ) in the same period .
3 The second failkure occurred in a 77 year old man who presented with severe secretary diarrhoea ( 15 motions per day ) , hypokalaemia , hyponatraemia , and prerenal failure .
4 Today 's twenty four hour strike is the latest in a thirteen year long battle over pay .
5 The Melbourne Diabetic Nephropathy Study Group did not find a difference in urinary albumin excretion between nifedipine and perindopril in a one year randomised study including 53 patients with type 1 or type 2 diabetes with or without hypertension .
6 Government research says that the presence of dioxins in flue gases from plants such as that at Pontypool ‘ are in the low range of parts per trillion ’ ( one part per trillion is of the order of 30 seconds in a million years , or one ounce in 28 million tons ) , and that all the UK PCB-destroying plants together emit only a ‘ few grammes per year ’ .
7 The SDP were likely to be a far greater danger to us , as disgruntled ex-Conservative voters who would never have voted Labour in a million years turned to a cosy middle party .
8 Not in a million years .
9 You 'd never in a million years see a dancing man in a field in the country .
10 Not in a million years .
11 On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’
12 Even if the Sun is shrinking at a rate of merely 0–01 per cent per century it would totally disappear in a million years ; and it would have been twice its present size a million years ago .
13 It is based on a true story so outrageous that it would never in a million years have passed muster as fiction .
14 When the war was over , in a million years , and little Marie asked , ‘ What was your war like , Auntie Vi ? ’ she would tell her , ‘ Drab , queen .
15 No parent is going to believe this pigtail story , not in a million years .
16 The Roy I knew would never take that from anyone , not in a million years . ’
17 And I could n't tell a triple Axel from a double Salko in a million years , let alone perform one !
18 Not in a million years .
19 I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms .
20 So I tried for a calming course , feeling thankful to this man for his dogged clasp on difficulties that would n't cause me any recall of my dead love in a million years , and I pursued the wisp of a path suggested by the word ‘ nanny . ’
21 There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there .
22 Ye 'd never have got it out of him in a million years .
23 Other world-wide eustatic causes of sea level change include sedimentary infilling of ocean basins which could give a sea level rise of 4 mm/100 years equivalent to 40 m in a million years ( Higgins , 1965 ) ; orogenic eustasy whereby orogenic uplift creates ocean basins of different size ; geoidal eustasy whereby the ocean surface reflects the variations in the geoid surface due to the earth 's irregular distribution of mass which can give a difference between lows and highs of as much as 180 m .
24 From historical records it can be deduced that there have been more than two hundred notable tsunami in the last two thousand years ; this would allow us more than 100 000 in a million years .
25 For some reason the thought that he seriously did n't care one way or another what her opinions were wounded her pride more than she would ever have admitted in a million years .
26 The real reason for her lack of promotion , she knew , would never in a million years occur to him .
27 Not in a million years , Mr. Kopek .
28 It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years .
29 I knew they would return ; perhaps tomorrow , in a year or in a million years , but they would be back .
30 It 's a sobering thought that in a million years or so , the Thames will break through somewhere around Poplar High Street and turn it into a proper island .
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