Example sentences of "[num] years [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BOYZ II MEN 's ‘ End Of The Road ’ has become only the third single in 30 years to spend more than ten weeks at the top of the Billboard chart . |
| 2 | I rise to break my Trappist vow of six years to say how honoured and privileged I have been to attend and take part in this debate . |
| 3 | will go straight out the window and they wo n't bother with us , a very short time it 's taken five I mean six years to build up the credibility |
| 4 | IT took Kenny Dalglish six years to walk out on football management six years , three championships and two FA Cups . |
| 5 | You wo n't live another six years to find out ! |
| 6 | Public pressure on the Canadian and Quebec governments has resulted in the pledge of more than 2.4 billion dollars over the next 10 years to clean up the St Lawrence and create a marine sanctuary for the remaining belugas . |
| 7 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
| 8 | The 1930s recession took about 10 years to work through ; but have we now even recovered the position we wee in during 1979 ? |
| 9 | ROCK band Queensryche took 10 years to work out how to become stars . |
| 10 | Indeed , it has taken me more than three years to cast off my British cynicism and truly comprehend the value of freedom in America . |
| 11 | He adds that the case is likely to take three years to sort out . |
| 12 | The FDIC will keep the worst $5.5 billion of Bank of New England 's $20 billion of assets , and promises for the next three years to take back any more loans that go bad . |
| 13 | A formal creditors ' meeting was held in August where it was agreed that Hook Harris would be given three years to pay back its debts under the supervision of Andersen partners John Talbot and Martin Fishman . |
| 14 | This new venture aims over a period of three years to train up to ninety students not only as teachers of BSL but as BSL English interpreters . |
| 15 | Firstly whether these subscriptions should be for one year only or whether it should be fixed for three years to tie in with the tri-annual general meeting . |
| 16 | Because so few of the policy-makers have had direct experience of business , they seem to find it impossible to believe that when , for instance , interest rates fall , the positive effect on business confidence and hence on investment decisions may take up to three years to work through . |
| 17 | But he had taken three years to get there . |
| 18 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Bones in a baby 's foot are very soft and malleable and take some 18 years to harden completely . ’ |
| 20 | It took Mel Fisher , an American obsessed with finding gold , 17 years to track down the wreck of the Atocha ; in the process , his son and daughter-in-law drowned . |
| 21 | She estimated it would take her 11 years to pay off the debt . |
| 22 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 23 | Later on the flight to Nice Kate let herself regress ten years to relive once more her beloved only brother 's funeral , something she had forbidden herself to do ever since she 'd left home to go to university . |
| 24 | It had taken her nearly ten years to do so , ‘ as everyone said that we have enough societies in Bedford already ’ . |
| 25 | What is interesting , however , is that it has taken over ten years to bring about the changes Leonard anticipated . |
| 26 | Jeff Goodman talks about a new opportunity which the University Careers Service is offering to graduates of the last ten years to re-assess where they have got to in their careers . |
| 27 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century we find Lord Eldon sometimes keeping a case for ten years to think over , and not delivering judgement till perhaps most of the parties were dead and most of the property had gone in costs . |
| 28 | It took more than three billion years to evolve up to the human race . |
| 29 | Its two solar rings will give it power for fifteen years to send back the closest and clearest pictures of the universe ever seen . |
| 30 | It took another fifteen years to wipe out the debt completely . |