Example sentences of "in a [noun sg] of years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At last we are getting the reward for our hard work and we will be challenging for the world title ourselves in a couple of years , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The kitchen at Pentonville was built in 1977 , but a new one is planned for installation in a couple of years . |
| 3 | The Llanelli and Wales lock Phil May believes that in a couple of years Cardiff will become pre-eminent in Welsh club rugby both because of their magnetic appeal and because of Wales 's economic geography . |
| 4 | TIE Rack , whose expansion into America has been described as ‘ attempted suicide ’ by chairman Roy Bishko , is aiming to break even in its American shops ‘ in a couple of years ’ after a better performance in the year to February . |
| 5 | According to Magnet Applications , the Berkhamsted-based Cookson subsidiary , the number of magnets used in cars has risen from a handful 20 years ago to about 80 now , rising to perhaps 200 in a couple of years ' time as automatic windows and sunroofs etc become more widespread . |
| 6 | John is fourteen next term and would normally leave school in a couple of years time . |
| 7 | France would like its own ‘ Mr Space ’ , Hubert Curien of the French space agency CNES , to take over the reigns of ESA when he retires in a couple of years . |
| 8 | I 'm brilliant , I 'll be manageress in a couple of years . |
| 9 | You could then sell it off in a couple of years once everything 's tickety-boo again . |
| 10 | ( Console yourself with the certain knowledge that she too will have a dimpled bum in a couple of years ! ) |
| 11 | In a couple of years we 'll be outnumbered . ’ |
| 12 | Unlike Laurie Connell who formed an instant collection in a couple of years , Bond 's collection was still in the making and aimed to be a balanced historical survey . |
| 13 | What do you hope to be doing in a couple of years ' time ? |
| 14 | In a couple of years ' time , if things have n't improved , doctors plan more test , including a bone marrow analysis and a liver and bowel biopsy . |
| 15 | So I think that I 'll do a little more work on camera in a couple of years ’ time , and then see if I can become a proper writer . ’ |
| 16 | So hopefully , erm if any ladies are interested in a couple of years , their children , and even themselves if they want to come along and play . |
| 17 | It will do now in a couple of years time . |
| 18 | One must n't give in to pessimism , and it 's pointless to look too far ahead , but in a couple of years she wo n't even be legal . |
| 19 | He likes the flexibility of his endowment loan : ‘ I will probably move in a couple of years , and then who knows ? |
| 20 | And then you can you know , I mean , technically we have expanded cos if you look in in a couple of years there was me and you doing it was n't there ? |
| 21 | ‘ Only that I thought I might move house in a couple of years . |
| 22 | Micros are astonishingly powerful , and it may well be that in a couple of years time they will provide the most attractive solution — but they do not provide it yet . |
| 23 | If we 'd been forced like myself I believe in a couple of years ' time , I will not be able to enjoy the pension fund that I 'm in at the moment we will have a problem , and we need to deal with that problem , and we need to raise the issue now and have a strategy , and I think it 's the G M B's to take a leading role in looking at this . |
| 24 | My Sophie , for example — if she were in Darcy 's Utopia and in a couple of years were to become a teenage primigravida , which is perfectly on the cards — I reckon the neighbours would know better than Lou or me if she was fit to be a mother or not . |
| 25 | This salinates the surrounding land , reducing its fertility and rendering it completely unfit for rice cultivation in a couple of years . |
| 26 | ‘ I only moved in a couple of years ago . |
| 27 | ‘ In a couple of years I 'll have an even better horse than Grye . ’ |
| 28 | If we were just gon na bolt together the two unions then that may be able to be done in a couple of years or so , but if we 're trying to build something better , then we 're talking about a project that takes place over several years . |
| 29 | Because we 've also been told we 're probably going to lose our jobs in a couple of years unless we 're prepared to move to Glasgow . |
| 30 | I think we 'll be actually be friends in a couple of years ’ time . ’ |