Example sentences of "year it [vb mod] " 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 | Thus although a marked increase is apparent in recent years it may prove to be due entirely to three freak movements . |
| 3 | ’ It is already possible to apply ( gene analysis ) methods for the early foetal diagnosis of these disorders ( haemophilia and other anaemias ) , and over the next few years it may even be possible to replace defective genes ’ , wrote the geneticist David Weatherall in an article on the new Institute for Molecular Medicine in Oxford . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A final point on this type of clause : if what is regarded as an initially reasonable figure is inserted in standard conditions and remains unchanged for a number of years it may well have become unreasonable through the impact of inflation , either in an absolute sense , or because average contract values have increased . |
| 7 | After all these years it 'll be a real house and home again . |
| 8 | In the next 5 to 10 years it 'll come through strong . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 13 | She likes to shock ; from current trends , the Gothic style pleases her ; in earlier years it would have been punk , or beatnik . |
| 14 | Years and years and years it would take . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | POLICEWOMAN Pauline Tilley said afterwards on behalf of the grieving families : ‘ If the judge had given Gooch 100 years it would probably not be enough , because you can not bring the lives of five children back . ’ |
| 17 | If Japan 's lending had continued to expand at the same pace as in recent years it would have overtaken Britain in 1992 . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At an absolute minimum , the worth of the company must be £100m ( in fact , within the next two years it would be worth £25Om . ) |
| 21 | The poor duck must have crawled all that way , a hundred metres or more to that second patch of light ; our bright idea of putting the branches down after him to cover him up was pointless ; for all these years it would only have needed some more kids to have come along with torches or bits of burning paper to discover the body . |
| 22 | From time to time that evening she was visited by the sight of the lake with its gold fretwork of fish ; she wondered how many years it would be before she could go to that place with equanimity . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Apart from that there is no strong reason for one method rather than another although as the first year has lower production than later years it would be difficult in terms of wearing out to argue for the reducing balance method . |
| 25 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 26 | I said if we had a maintenance on it , maintenance was thirty odd quid a year , over eight years it would of cost us two hundred and forty pound |
| 27 | While the Camphill Development Project will naturally take up time and energy and demand much sacrifice over the next few years it must not become our only goal . |
| 28 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
| 29 | Lindow Moss almost certainly has more to offer , yet within years it will be only a hole in the ground — the same hole that the ice left . |
| 30 | If this is the first plan to be drawn up , this will probably be sufficient matter for one meeting ; in subsequent years it will be possible to proceed more quickly . |