Example sentences of "of years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It needed to be , with a different corps every couple of years once they became officers and a new baby born every eighteen months or so . |
| 2 | Parents usually keep their children at home for a couple of years after they have completed their six years of compulsory education . |
| 3 | Oh that was there for years , donkey 's years when , I can remember when I was at school , going to school and it was still there quite a number of years after I left school . |
| 4 | For a number of years after he ascended the throne he remained highly deferential to gentry concerns . |
| 5 | Specific and lengthy training — usually over a period of years so the non-committed will fall by the wayside . |
| 6 | The various pros and cons have been discussed and highlighted in the Journal over the last couple of years so I will not repeat them , although printing costs of the vouchers must be very high compared with a ‘ one off card ’ . |
| 7 | Because we 've also been told we 're probably going to lose our jobs in a couple of years unless we 're prepared to move to Glasgow . |
| 8 | There was no embassy in Naples but there was probably some consular representation although the War had only finished a couple of years before and not just Italy but the whole of Europe was hopelessly disorganised . |
| 9 | There had been a severe tremor a couple of years before and repair work was still going on . |
| 10 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 11 | If you were aged 40 or more in 1978 , multiply by the number of years before you will be 60 , the state retirement age . |
| 12 | Some of the collisions lasted for millions of years before the land was finally in place . |
| 13 | In fact , both were deposited many millions of years before the first pine tree grew on earth . |
| 14 | Bacteria which normally divide and reproduce themselves every twenty minutes can also form themselves into environmentally resistant spores capable of lying dormant , even entombed in rock , for maybe millions of years before a change of circumstance permits their release with continued growth and reproduction . |
| 15 | Now that has come to pass , I think everyone is gearing back down and it will be down for a couple of years before it goes back up ; it just seems to go back and forth . |
| 16 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |
| 17 | The behaviour of privatised industries will have to be studied over a number of years before it is possible to conclude whether the ownership of the company ( ie private or public ) or the market structure ( ie competitive or monopolistic ) is the major determinant of corporate behaviour . |
| 18 | Are we to suppose that in the thousands of millions of years before conscious life emerged in the world — and still today in those extensive parts of the universe where no conscious life has yet developed — no wavepacket has ever collapsed , no atom for certain decayed ? |
| 19 | But even saying that , if they doubled it to two hundred pounds , it 's a lot of years before we reach four thousand pounds . |
| 20 | Barry had also composed the music for The Knack , and raised the idea for Billy with producer Peter Witt over lunch a couple of years before it materialized . |
| 21 | The criterion is the number of years before the pre-tax cash receipts from the project pay back the capital invested . |
| 22 | When they first met up on a ‘ Carry On ’ set a couple of years before no one knew how strong that love would be . |
| 23 | Bats developed " send/receive " switching technology long long ago , probably millions of years before our ancestors came down from the trees . |
| 24 | And I 'm disappointed that councillor is talking about a matter of years before we get something done about this . |
| 25 | If not , he warned : ‘ It could be a couple of years before we even get into the courtroom itself and no-one can say how long the case will run . ’ |
| 26 | It could take a number of years before we get them all on A L O courses and in fact there 's no way w I assume there 's no way we can put them on A L O courses til they 've done a crime prevention course at Is that right David ? |
| 27 | Ooh now that started before we took out the mortgage , about a couple of years before I think . |
| 28 | Erm I , I suppose it 'll be a couple of years before he does that but |
| 29 | took me a lot of years before I could and I was so pleased when once I was able to say to you I 've Ben had been in the shop and we 'd had a chat had n't we ? |
| 30 | They spent thousands of years before they could understand fractions |