Example sentences of "[pron] would [be] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began to be a test — the test — of whether he could still live with himself once the months ( but probably it would be years ) of imprisonment were over . |
| 2 | He began to think it would be years before he escaped until the day he bumped into Wednesday , who was now Sunday , as he tip-toed back to Nettles . |
| 3 | We did n't live together because I felt it would be years before I 'd be reasonable company for another human being . |
| 4 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 5 | But maybe it would be years before the Gunmint bothered to tell it to do anything . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not kidnap young females , even for financial reward , and also , if you were to disappear without trace , it would be years , I suspect , before my mother had her home to herself . |