Example sentences of "few year [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few years galleries have been springing up in Berlin 's Fasanenstrasse and its surrounding district , making it the ideal starting point for a gallery tour . |
| 2 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |
| 3 | For a few years chimpanzees raised in human households learn as well as human infants of the same age , but they soon reach the limit of their ability and are rapidly overtaken by human youngsters . |
| 4 | For the last few years Pinfield had been based with the Langham Group , a somewhat elitist special projects body under Anthony Pellisier charged with producing very experimental forms of drama — using techniques like inlay , overlay and split screening ; for example , matting caption slide backgrounds over black drape stages . |
| 5 | It is thus possible that in the course of the next few years Council will assign the headship for a period to the holder of the Halford Mackinder Professorship , who will among those carrying an obligation to serve if so requested . |
| 6 | It seems likely that in the next few years funding will be increased minimally and competition will also grow . |
| 7 | For a few years funding for memory research became hard to come by . |
| 8 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 9 | One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton . |
| 10 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 11 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
| 12 | Within a few years clubs appeared all over the country . |
| 13 | observed in the Anton Piller case that orders should ‘ rarely ’ be made , within a few years Goulding J. remarked that ‘ such is the proven efficiency of that type of order and such is the extent of dishonest trading in this country at the present time , that it is a matter of weekly occurrence and sometimes of daily occurrence for the Chancery Division ’ to make such orders , which are also regularly made in the Queen 's Bench Division . |
| 14 | As Mr Gladstone has pointed out , in the last few years progress has been far more rapid because improved education has created in all classes of the community an increased desire and appetite for literature which did not formerly exist , and that can only be supplied by means of such public libraries in which we are now met . |
| 15 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |
| 16 | He says that in a few years gas will become expensive , and coal will be waiting in the wings as a cheap form of energy . |
| 17 | For the last few years Weir has been one of the most consistent performers of any quoted Scottish company , with a steady improvement in sales and profits . |
| 18 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
| 19 | Surplus component boards etc. are most useful if they contain expensive semiconductors , and are probably something that are best left to those who have a few years experience of electronics behind them . |
| 20 | The last few years Sarah had practically suffocated her only daughter . |
| 21 | Mr Knight anticipates that over the next few years manufacturing capacity will expand and business may be further developed via a joint venture . |
| 22 | In the past few years interferometers have displaced scanning spectrophotometers in many applications . |
| 23 | Over the last few years work has been carried out on using machine readable dictionaries as a source of linguistic knowledge ( Amsler , 1981 ) , ( Boguraev & Briscoe , 1987 ) — thereby enabling the production of a large vocabulary lexicon for considerably less effort than was previously required . |
| 24 | In a few years things may change , I ca n't promise that , but they may . |
| 25 | All in all , however , over the next few years things in general appeared to be going well enough . |
| 26 | In the Balkans it meant that for the next few years Bulgaria under Stambouloff would look to Austria-Hungary ( and even , a little , to Turkey ) , for fear of Russia . |
| 27 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 28 | With Lindsey 's Corsair being the only one of its type in Europe , airshow organisers had to approach him if they wanted a Corsair in their flying display , and for the first few years John Allison and Lindsey flew all over Europe with the aircraft . |
| 29 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 30 | During the next few years Miloš gradually increased his influence within the administration of the pashalik , using the considerable wealth at his disposal to bribe Turkish officials . |