Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Patten has promised enough resources for the inspectorate to solve this problem but it may be years before it is strong enough to effectively enforce its new duties . |
| 2 | It may be years , if ever , before the symbols of the three largest organisations , the Soil Association , Organic Farmers & Growers or the Scottish Organic Producers ' Association , are superseded by an EC symbol . |
| 3 | Others such as geologists or naturalists may be able to collect that information much more rapidly , but again it may be years before it can be used to produce a theory of evolution . |
| 4 | ‘ It must be years since he has ridden it . |
| 5 | The thought went through my mind , she ca n't help me ! — It must be years yet before she will come to write her masterpiece . |
| 6 | I know I have n't anything to offer her and that it might be years before I could afford to run a house and give her the kind of life style she 's used to , so I would n't expect Sir Philip to agree to it for a long while . ’ |
| 7 | For example , if a decision is made to build a factory , it might be years before the building is erected , equipped and in operation , and years more before it earns sufficient profits to pay back the investment . |
| 8 | It might be years before the lands on the other side of the Great Sea were secured . |
| 9 | It 'll be years before you 're in this position again , so do n't give it up until you 're absolutely certain you 've found the place you want . |
| 10 | But I must admit I have n't seen an I have n't seen , you know it 's years well it 'll be years |
| 11 | ‘ It could be years before overall trends are established . ’ |
| 12 | And chances are that this haglike vision is simply advance warning — it could be years before your face finally settles into the low-slung , wrinkly cast you previewed with dismay . |
| 13 | ‘ It could be years . |
| 14 | It could be years before plans to restore the River Misbourne ever come to light . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We did n't live together because I felt it would be years before I 'd be reasonable company for another human being . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But maybe it would be years before the Gunmint bothered to tell it to do anything . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | The firm reckons it will be years before it finds the system 's limits . |
| 22 | But in Kashmir the insurgency is only three years old , and while there are cases of extortion and rape by the militants , it will be years before they are rejected as were their counterparts in Punjab . |
| 23 | And she said , when she qualifies it will be years before she 's gets back to an F grade ! |