Example sentences of "years [pron] would have " in BNC.

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1 We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves .
2 If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’
3 obviously erm I 've ju all I 've got down here is local newspaper advertising five years which would have been enough er
4 ‘ I promise , ’ Katherine said in a small voice , not quite sure what it was she was pledging , though in later years she would have ample occasion to reflect on what he said .
5 She likes to shock ; from current trends , the Gothic style pleases her ; in earlier years it would have been punk , or beatnik .
6 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 .
7 If Japan 's lending had continued to expand at the same pace as in recent years it would have overtaken Britain in 1992 .
8 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 .
9 By the end of the ten years he would have paid the firm £9,946.80 .
10 And he added his hope that in about two years he would have a more straightforward kind of book ready , developing his published studies on Diogenes Laertius , and possibly also an edition of Aeschylus ' Libation Bearers ( on which he had been lecturing earlier in the year ) Without any direct reference to this last suggestions Ritschl , in his reply a few weeks later , implicitly endorsed it .
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