Sentence examples for years to do something from inspiring English sources

Idiom

To be/feel up to doing something.

To be capable of or fit for something.

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I would like to play in Europe and will give the club three or four years to do something.

He was so moved, he said, that "it took me two and a half years to do something about it".

Joe Trippi, a campaign adviser to Howard Dean and John Edwards, agreed: "They had eight years to do something.

Why do we have to say it takes six years to do something we know students want?' My answer to them is not that it necessarily wins you votes; I don't think you can get a hearing.

Mr Cramer, however, worries that the differences will provide opportunities for factory owners to wriggle out of complying.Foreign firms have been promising for around 20 years to do something about Bangladesh's dangerous factories, to little effect.

"You've been training for three years to do something - every single race has been building up to it - and your life feels as it's stopped after 2012," he explains.

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"It's about getting another year to do something you love," Ms. Tigelaar said.

"We have a legislature that was pounded on for a year to do something, and they did diddly," says Paul Baldwin, a prominent Maui rancher.

And, in the long run, that's going to be worth a lot more than an additional $35,000 a year to do something you hate.

There is going to be mid-season activity and he's going to be coming over in the middle of the year to do something with the squad".

In his journeys with the Giants, the Patriots and the Jets before jilting the Tampa Bay Bucs nearly a year ago, this has always been Parcells's time of year to do something, or nothing.

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