"I promised her we'd come for two years, just to try.
"They might just come for a year, they might come for six months, they might come for five years, but we would have people from all over".
Even so, after CiU's weak showing, a referendum may not come for four years and the question asked could be deliberately wooly.
The big tax savings would not come for five years or more, after the plan's main provisions have been fully phased in.
Even I.B.M., which plans eventually to use Linux as its unifying Unix platform (shelving AIX), says Linux's true ascendance may not come for five years or so -- until Linux is built up to become more powerful and reliable.
It needed the optical revenue that we predicted would come for five years and then saw come to fruition in the 1990s.
The students would come for four years, drive up rents and compete for some jobs in the town.
I was only going to come for two years to help my family run this shop and to make some money.
CJ has been coming for three years.
