Example sentences of "few years [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in the past few years long term nursing care beds in the NHS have been progressively reduced and district health authorities have made little effort to improve their remaining accommodation . |
| 2 | In the past few years two academic posts have had to be frozen to keep the photographic collection and library funded . |
| 3 | In the past few years major corporations such as BP , BT , the Post Office and IBM have cut out huge swathes of middle management to produce leaner , more competitive organisations . |
| 4 | Over the next few years increasing numbers of parents will die of diseases related to HIV and many healthy children will suffer the death of one or both parents . |
| 5 | Within a few years firm and formal contacts with the Board of Education had been established . |
| 6 | For those of you that do n't know can I remind you that in the last few years one million pounds of capital was spent on Moat Centre alone on the cost together the moment of running Moat Centre for Highfield 's youth is five hundred thousand a year . |
| 7 | In the next few years all of England 's maritime energies were concentrated on resisting Philip of Spain 's attempt at invasion , and by the time one of Raleigh 's associates was able to visit the colony again in 1590 it had disappeared . |
| 8 | Within a few years other reformers , including Wilberforce and Clarkson , recognised that their belief in virtually automatic improvement in the population and condition of slaves was naïve . |
| 9 | Every few years new technological advances , such as the improvement in silicon chip production methods , have led to a further ten times performance improvement . |
| 10 | Third , there was the severe deterioration of industrial relations in the few years prior to 1914 which brought with it violent strikes and syndicalism . |
| 11 | However , in the past few years such a model of enacting legislation after a wide-ranging commission that hears evidence from professionals in the field has not been followed . |
| 12 | During the next few years many alternative possibilities for compost making will be tried with varying degrees of success , and gardeners will be at the forefront of this revolution . |
| 13 | In the next few years many clinical experiments established the effective use of drugs to suppress immune responses . |
| 14 | The basic chemical structure common to promethazine and chlorpromazine provided a good basis from which to begin the search for compounds which were better than chlorpromazine , and in the next few years many came into clinical use . |
| 15 | In the past few years many disparate organisations have appealed to industry to improve information dissemination about R&D . |
| 16 | The grim alternative is that in a few years many more specialties will be in the position of thoracic medicine and more junior doctors will spend even longer in the training grades . |
| 17 | In the last few years many policy analysts , professional organizations , charitable bodies and government-funded bodies have made recommendations on how the NHS and local authority structures should be changed in order to develop community care more effectively . |
| 18 | Over the past few years tremendous efforts have been made to explain to the outside world just what the Olefines business is all about and the reasons for flaring . |
| 19 | Within a few years four species of Plasmodium had been recognized , responsible for clinically distinct variants of malaria . |
| 20 | Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , the donor must have been infected with the Aids virus just before his death , and over the next few years seven of his beneficiaries have become HIV positive . |
| 22 | In practice , the vast majority of reported offences of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl of 16 involve young men of a similar age or a few years older , and the general trend is to administer a formal caution to such persons rather than to prosecute them . |
| 23 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 24 | Peter was a few years older and shared David 's passion for gambling and the good things in life . |
| 25 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 26 | ( If her son enters when he is a few years older , he will surely be unique in being able to say he has been taking part since before he was born . ) |
| 27 | Now 43 , he 's a few years older than Super Mario who made his screen debut in a 1980 arcade game . |
| 28 | She was a few years older , mature , a mother . |
| 29 | Close friendships with girls a few years older or younger than oneself were actively discouraged , and it seemed to us that to be seen in earnest conversation with a girl who belonged neither to one 's own year or one 's own house was tantamount to admitting that one was engaged in a lesbian liaison . |
| 30 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |