Example sentences of "would [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result the rural population of all Russia would need four years , until 1926 , to recover from the combined disasters of the Famine and crude central fiscal and administrative measures . |
| 2 | If two crops of wheat were grown two years in a row , afterwards the land would undergo four years of pasture and then perhaps two years of vegetable crops . |
| 3 | Typically an Information memorandum would include three years historic profit and loss accounts and balance sheets . |
| 4 | The paper went on to consider the question of ‘ The Grading of Murders ’ , traversing the same ground as a Royal Commission would do six years later , and reaching the same negative conclusions , except that Ede rejected the idea of giving the jury any discretion : |
| 5 | If England 's trip comes off it would follow 10 years after they played the last official Test against the Springboks at Johannesburg and would be the perfect dress-rehearsal if South Africa 's strong bid to stage the 1995 World Cup succeeds . |
| 6 | Later in your life you would spend many years attempting to disprove this thesis . |
| 7 | ( They would marry two years later , some months after she had given birth to twin boys . |
| 8 | As his guardian , Harold would have fifteen years before the boy became anything to be reckoned with . |
| 9 | Certainly it would appear that foreign language learners who would have six years ' experience at school followed by three years ' university training plus a year in the country of that language , are treating the learning task much more seriously than sign language learners . |
| 10 | On June 23 the veteran Texan oil firefighter Red Adair had claimed that the task of capping oil fires would take five years . |
| 11 | The giant Redwood can grow to 300 ft , although that would take 200 years . |
| 12 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 13 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 14 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 15 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 16 | He said that planning permission for a new pit would take two years and would normally involve a public inquiry . |
| 17 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 18 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
| 19 | However , it has been suggested that on the present basis it would take 46 years to clear the backlog in housing disrepair … |
| 20 | At a completion rare of one percent per annum the total task would take 100 years . |
| 21 | The sediment would allow diffusion at a rate of only I metre per 10 years , and ocean circulation would take 100 years to introduce radionuclides into the human environment once radionuclides enter the water column . |
| 22 | On the Cairngorm plateau the pressure of walkers ' feet on rare mosses and lichen continues to damage a sub-arctic habitat that would take 100 years to repair — if it had the chance . |
| 23 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 24 | The scale of the proposals meant that the implementation would take several years to complete . |
| 25 | In Britain an oak would take twenty years to reach such a state . |
| 26 | In Britain an oak would take twenty years … ’ |
| 27 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 28 | The Canadian researchers say that tests on animals are needed , but such work would take some years . |
| 29 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 30 | He said the conversion would take three years and the pitfalls were unknown . |