Example sentences of "years be [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have a paper laying out clearly what our priorities over the next few years are to be would help to provide the firm direction that an organisation like ours needs to have . |
| 2 | The hutted wards , built more than 40 years ago with a life expectancy of 10 years are to be demolished . |
| 3 | The Japanese invasion brought an end to this initial stage of Holy Cross ; the war years were to be a severe testing of the training given . |
| 4 | If these post-war years were to be so crucial to the formation of the post-war employment structure , economic dislocation provided an atmosphere in which self-preservation was an understandable objective . |
| 5 | Local housing programmes drawn up by an intercommunal co-operation body and covering at least five years were to be established in the 13 cities with more than 350,000 inhabitants . |
| 6 | At Angle in Pembrokeshire the first new slipway and boathouse to be built for 31 years is to be constructed . |
| 7 | A gap of 10 to 12 years is to be expected . |
| 8 | A : Journalists always make the assumption that to be married for a number of years is to be happily married for those years . |
| 9 | A satellite which will monitor the earth 's ozone layer for three years is to be deployed from the US space shuttle Discovery , launched in September . |
| 10 | A section of canal derelict for forty years is to be reopened after the installation of four new lock gates . |
| 11 | A collection of vintage farm machinery built up by one man over thirty years is to be auctioned off tomorrow.The field full of equipment includes tractors shipped over from America in the nineteen forties to help the British war effort.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 12 | The principle which underlay the concept of Jubilee , ( that all land alienated during the preceding fifty years was to be returned to its original owner or his descendants ) was that each family should not find itself in a position in which it was permanently barred from owning land , the vital productive asset in that economy . |
| 13 | It was ready for the further development of Capitalism as the means of assuring the exponential increase in production which the Industrial Revolution was making possible , the phenomenal expansion which for the next forty years was to be centred on a Britain uniquely the workshop of the world and the engine of economic growth . |