Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] [num] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | To incorporate the various categories of course , it is proposed that the phased transition should consist of three years ' batches of courses . |
| 2 | It recommends that all planning permissions for quarrying in national parks should expire in 10 years and that permission for dormant sites be removed , or at least reviewed — even though this would require compensation for the owners . |
| 3 | But I must have aged 20 years out there . |
| 4 | Senior judges must retire at seventy-five years of age , Circuit judges at seventy-two with possible extension to seventy-five , Justices of the Peace and stipendiaries at seventy . |
| 5 | There are also professionally-applied textured coatings which are sprayed on , and should last for 10 years or more . |
| 6 | If all these factors are adequately taken into account — and drainage should be provided in any case to prevent mosquitoes and other insects breeding — mud buildings should last for 50 years and more with adequate maintenance . |
| 7 | However , payments must continue for ten years . |
| 8 | But then the hubbub starts again , and other voices ask me what I 'll do in 20 years ' time . |
| 9 | However , record contracts tend to last longer than management agreements ( a management agreement might last for three years while a record contract may go on as long as ten ) . |
| 10 | For example , the dies used to make Roman bronze medallions of the second century AD might last for ten years , and at the city of Dalisandos in Asia Minor a die survived for more than eighty years . |
| 11 | Clinical trials of the suitability of organs from these pigs may begin within 3 years . |
| 12 | In effect , according to the NERC , this suggested that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere could double within 40 years . |
| 13 | I could do with 99 years of government-subsidized living . ’ |
| 14 | Cincinnati Bell Inc reports that the Federal arm of its Cincinnati Bell Information Systems won a systems management contract that could run for five years and be worth up to $41m to support the Federal Transportation Computer Center in Washington DC : the centre supports Federal Highway Administration , US Coast Guard , Federal Transit Administration , Research & Special Programs Administration , the Federal Aviation Administration , and the Federal Maritime Administration . |
| 15 | An oil company has just started exploratory drilling in the west of the region.If they find enough oil and gas , production on a commercial scale could begin in five years time.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 16 | Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so . |
| 17 | They are usually fitted into a timber sub-frame ( hardwood , in preference to softwood ; there 's little point in fitting an indestructible door in a frame that could rot in 10 years ) , and come with either a silvery finish or a factory-applied coating in a limited range of colours . |
| 18 | They are usually fitted into a timber sub-frame ( hardwood , in preference to softwood , as there 's little point in fitting an indestructible window in a frame that could rot in ten years ) . |
| 19 | ‘ If a bed is in 365 days a year use , it could last for three years or maybe more , ’ says John Mott of supplier Airsprung Furniture . |
| 20 | Work on a multi-million pound relief road for Fordham , the only village on the busy A142 Newmarket to Ely road which is not bypassed , could start within three years . |
| 21 | Some analysts in the Philippines reckon that if the project is successful it could account within five years for at least 10% of GNP . |
| 22 | ‘ I may die in five years time — hopefully someone else will be there giving the same message . ’ |
| 23 | The Home Secretary has indicated that State-run prisons of this standard may take about 20–25 years to achieve . |
| 24 | Experts have reported that rock falls have already begun , and that the ceiling of the chamber may collapse within two years . |
| 25 | In other words we 've effectively rebuilt the island of information that we used to talk about five years ago and the key motivation behind enterprise client server is really to integrate the efforts of these two groups . |
| 26 | The interim government would rule for two years before holding elections under the auspices of the UN and the Islamic Conference Organization . |
| 27 | At one of the early Seybold conferences , I think it was back in 1986 , Steve Jobs commented that desktop publishing would disappear within two years as a stand-alone activity because all the major applications would simply absorb its capabilities . |
| 28 | According to Laurie Boorman , a scientist with the National Environment Research Council , at the present rates of degradation half the areas of coastal marshes would disappear within 50 years . |
| 29 | Alain Tamisier , the head of a French government research team , predicted that the wild areas of the Camargue would disappear within 30 years unless extensive conservation measures were taken . |
| 30 | This game is similar to games you would buy for 2–6 year olds that had Zoo animals cut out of the board with little pins on them , The child would try to fit the animal back into the right shape . |