Example sentences of "year [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Months or years may pass before intimacy and trust develop , and before a reasonable range of criminal actions can be observed closely . |
| 2 | There could scarcely be a less promising environment for an amphibian than the desert of central Australia where sometimes several years may pass without any rain falling . |
| 3 | Students who can only participate in the course for two years may sit the Diploma in Psychiatry in the sixth term . |
| 4 | short two years may make a big difference at this stage now , erm |
| 5 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 6 | Thus schools which are having difficulty attracting pupils over a couple of years may find that they are powerless to avoid progressive deterioration in their position . |
| 7 | One of the most significant trends in recent years may prove to be the growth of religious consciousness in the West . |
| 8 | THE IMPROVING image of diesels in the last couple of years may have encouraged sales . |
| 9 | He was in fact an excellent schoolboy quarter-miler ( thus proving another old adage of mine , that if you were very good in your youth you 'll be a very good Vet , no matter that 30 years may have passed since you last pulled on running shoes ) . |
| 10 | The years may have rolled by , but the relationship between skis and soft snow has not changed . |
| 11 | ‘ A company which has grown in the past two or three years may have been unable to move to larger premises , partly because it has been unable to pass on its present lease . |
| 12 | Nonlinear optics is perhaps unique among systems showing chaos in that a fully quantum mechanical description of the phenomena is conceivable : there is the interesting and exciting prospect that the next few years may reveal what , if anything , is meant by " quantum turbulence " , and all-optical systems such as those described or proposed above are likely to be in the forefront of experimental tests of such concepts . |
| 13 | A programme of activities which has not changed for , say two years may need review and amendment . |
| 14 | Some couples who have failed to hear what the other has been saying over a number of years may need the help of a third person , probably a trained counsellor , to get them talking again . |
| 15 | Those years may sound like frustration to your quest , but that is not necessarily the case . |
| 16 | The great issue of British opposition politics in the next few years may revolve around this question : is the principal alternative to Conservatism to be a form of consumerism , which might unite many in both principal opposition groupings ? |
| 17 | A person with IBS who has ignored the symptoms for years may become acutely aware of them when a close relative succumbs to cancer . |
| 18 | Each house will then be sold to a purchaser , ( P1 ) who after a number of years may sell it to another purchaser ( P2 ) . |
| 19 | The committee recommended that the curriculum in these two years should consist of a core and an elective area . |
| 20 | ‘ An hundred years should go to praise/ Thine Eyes , and on thy Forehead gaze . |
| 21 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
| 22 | Last night Hacene Mefti , Algeria 's oil minister , said his country was also unhappy at the outcome , claiming that other members which had benefited from Kuwait 's absence from the quota system for two years should do more to help smaller producers . |
| 23 | But I find it totally incomprehensible that someone who has held the office of Chancellor with high standing for over six years should want to resign over a personality with such suddenness and haste . ’ |
| 24 | This will be an annual task unless you 've invested in a cedar model when once every three years should suffice . |
| 25 | INVESTORS who fear that membership of the European Monetary System will not prevent a resurgence of inflation in coming years should examine the virtues of index-linked gilts . |
| 26 | The next few years should see the following developments in SCOTVEC 's provision : |
| 27 | But investors who have clung on grimly for the past five years should hang on a while longer . |
| 28 | b ) As visitor facilities at YBG Younger , Logan and Dawyck are further developed , future campaigns over the next 5-10 years should highlight these sites specifically , as appropriate . |
| 29 | It is the cast of mind which decrees that Henry Cotton , the most successful British golfer of the last fifty years should get an MBE rather than a knighthood , the same level of honour as a shorthand note-taker in the House of Commons or the draftsman of regulations governing haddock quotas . |
| 30 | Increases in consumption of all energy sources but oil over the next fifteen years should reduce Spanish oil dependence to some 52% by 1990 and to 41% by the year 2000 . |