Example sentences of "years it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been a teacher for over 30 years it might seem strange that I should begin a book on primary education by reflecting on the significance of schooling . |
| 2 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 3 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |
| 4 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 5 | In the next 5 to 10 years it 'll come through strong . |
| 6 | Spain and Portugal stressed during the proceedings their willingness to continue to act as bridges for Latin American access to the European Communities ; the Spanish government also announced that during the next four to five years it would invest over US$14,000 million in the Latin American region . |
| 7 | Pentagon hardliners , who have opposed a chemical weapons ban on the grounds that it could not be verified adequately , suggested the idea of seeking continued production of the new ‘ binary ’ weapons during the 10 years it would take to eliminate all arsenals . |
| 8 | Years and years and years it would take . |
| 9 | Even if there were such a description it would be difficult to imagine the number of working years it would take to arrive at a complete frequency description of a novel , let alone " the language as a whole " . |
| 10 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 11 | If prices remained high for a number of years it would become economic to develop marginal deposits in other parts of the world , such as Indonesia , New Guinea , New Caledonia , Peru and the US . |
| 12 | She likes to shock ; from current trends , the Gothic style pleases her ; in earlier years it would have been punk , or beatnik . |
| 13 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 14 | If Japan 's lending had continued to expand at the same pace as in recent years it would have overtaken Britain in 1992 . |
| 15 | All in all , it was still impossible to predict that , within six years of the 1911 national transport stoppage , Wilson 's vision of a joint union-Shipping Federation board would be imposed on the industry and that within nine years it would have been accepted voluntarily by the Federation as the normal and accepted method of conducting business with Wilson and his colleagues . |
| 16 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
| 17 | Its mission — and it thinks that within two years it will achieve it — is 10% . |
| 18 | Mead says that over the next several years it will move from a mainframe-centric architecture to a more flexible Unix environment , and Hewlett products are being incorporated as components of Mead Data 's internally developed Lexis and Nexis legal , business , financial and medical databases . |
| 19 | Foster 's reckons that within five years it will brew as much beer in China as in Australia . |
| 20 | The overall cost of the project over the ten years it will run is estimated to be in the region of £1.9 million , and an appeal for sponsorship by commercial sources and private individuals is to be launched early in 1993 . |
| 21 | However , if this practice has persisted for more than twelve years it will have become what is known as a prescriptive right of way , and you will inherit it and not be able to do anything about it . |
| 22 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |
| 23 | By the time CAMRA celebrated its first ten years it could pride itself on a large national membership and a series of hardhitting reports that had exposed the market domination of the big brewers and the shoddy beers they produced . |
| 24 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |