Example sentences of "be [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The yield on gilts that are some years from maturity will reflect long-term interest rates . |
| 2 | The next tier is a long way back and though there is another tier below that again with a lot of potential , they are some years away . ’ |
| 3 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 4 | Captain Sturt was the great explorer who had discovered the Murray River , and have been some years in New South Wales before coming to Adelaide , where he was Colonial Secretary . |
| 5 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 6 | Yeah , cos it was you with erm well it must have been some years ago . |
| 7 | For he said — Hugh Beringar said — that Brother Cadfael understands wounds , having been many years a man-at-arms . ’ |
| 8 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 9 | The king had been many years a widower . |
| 10 | It has been many years since the proud Fruithill Park outfit languished in the bottom half of the division after only three games , which is the case this season . |
| 11 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 12 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 13 | Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report . |
| 14 | Whereas things appeared stable in Britain at that time , overseas there existed events of change — in Italy there existed no unity and much of the land was occupied by the forces of Austria , but they were removed and in 1833 , a united Italy was advocated under Papal rule , but that proved not to be successful and it would be some years before Garibaldi was able to form the Italian National Association for the Unification of Italy which only achieved its objective in 1871 . |
| 15 | I 'm beginning to be quite confident that we were right , though it will be some years before we can be really certain we 've made the breakthrough . |
| 16 | It is likely to be some years before such a product is on the open market . |
| 17 | The high sides will help prevent the gravel being kicked into the garden , so it will be some years before you need to top it up . |
| 18 | Without a base , then , Mario had only his private ambitions to fulfil , and it was to be some years before he did . |
| 19 | Jo Durie , who has again carried the ladies game , made her own thoughts very clear and at this rate it could be some years until she is beaten regularly by a British girl . |
| 20 | An Astropath in the Librarium had messaged to Tezla 's own fortress-monastery on San Guisuga , a jungle world five thousand light years away , though it might be some years yet till that cousinly Chapter retrieved their Lieutenant . |
| 21 | It was , however , to be some years before the broad outlines of his findings were accepted . |
| 22 | It will be some years yet before the ripples die out , and a lot more analysis and thought by managements will be required . |
| 23 | In the meantime , he said , the French were making genuine progress in building up native forces although it would be some years before the Vietnamese would be competent to defend themselves . |
| 24 | If the theory survives these tests , it will probably be some years more before we develop computational methods that will enable us to make predictions and before we can account for the initial conditions of the universe as well as the local physical laws . |
| 25 | It will be some years yet before the full uptake picture becomes available because the traditional courses are still being phased out . |
| 26 | It would be some years before electronics could become the final authority . |
| 27 | But the production of such crops in the field appears to be some years away . |
| 28 | The drug 's being tested by cancer specialists … although it could be some years before it 's generally available . |
| 29 | A vaccine against HIV is still likely to be many years away but Dr Michael Murphey-Corb , who led the Tulane team , said he hoped ‘ to see something in five years . ’ |
| 30 | Lord Boyd-Carpenter said that criticism was unhappily ‘ not confined to the other side ’ and it would be many years before the scheme would bear fruit . |