Example sentences of "few years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With improved personal relationships , however , steps have been taken in the last few years towards closer links . |
| 2 | A few years down the road and along come the fitness men with their clipboards and stop-watches . |
| 3 | However , a few years down the line , a heavily discounted car might not look quite such a good bargain . |
| 4 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 5 | Since he was also responsible for teaching a weekly class of seven young women at Lady Margaret Hall ( a women 's college in North Oxford ) and for teaching philosophy to the undergraduates of Magdalen , his first few years at the College were strenuous . |
| 6 | A few years at work in a friendly tax climate might give you the chance to build up capital , and to keep it somewhere out of harm 's way . |
| 7 | Missionary Kate McBeth wrote : ‘ For a few years at first Joseph was afraid to come down upon the Nez Perce reserve — afraid of the surrounding whites and because of the many indictments against him — but this fear wore off . |
| 8 | I came to know and admire Beethoven 's ‘ Pastoral ’ symphony for the scenes depicted ; I enjoyed Saint Saens ' ’ Carnival of the Animals ’ , Prokofieff 's ‘ Peter and the Wolf ’ , and Benjamin Britten 's ‘ Guide to the Orchestra ’ as well as ‘ Ein Heldenleben ’ ( A Hero 's Life ) by Richard Strauss , the symphonies of Brahms , Haydn and Tschaikowsky , and especially , for a few years at any rate , the latter 's ‘ 1812 Overture ’ . |
| 9 | In the first few years at Rangers , he was sent off for striking five different opponents . |
| 10 | But once that 's been accepted you ca n't argue with the price and this jacket 's certain to keep you warm for a few years at least . |
| 11 | These years , like the first few years at the Secondary School , see Burton relapsing quite cheerfully into that boyo-larrikin-rugby-skiving coast through life : not a care , it appeared , in the world — Tom Jones at large . |
| 12 | The first few years at school I learnt nothing — |
| 13 | These days he has plenty of time to run the legs off his dog Quintus in nearby Richmond Park , just outside London , to indulge his hobby of stamp collecting and just to read novels , something that went by the board during his last few years at the Foreign Office , familiarly known as the FO . |
| 14 | We think they should be able to get jobs and hope they will stay for a few years at least . |
| 15 | For the next few years at least , the real messy world is likely to be unpredictable . |
| 16 | The hunting of game meat , particularly in Africa , was a vital support system for the builders of the lines and , for a few years at least , for those who ran them . |
| 17 | This project attempts to answer these questions , concentrating on computer programmers and systems analysts and building on the base of information gathered during the past few years at Bristol . |
| 18 | His spoken English was perfect , as was his comprehension , the result of a few years at Oxford studying languages — four in all . |
| 19 | We may hold them again at a price a hundred times their worth to us , for a few months , a few years at a pinch , but French they will still be , and in the end we must leave go of them . |
| 20 | We had screens on wheels in latter years at , last few years at school and er he used to go down to the tea room for a cup of tea half way down the stairs , the teachers ' room and perhaps go toilet as well , and er the one at the back was a foot out from the screen and every now and then he 'd have a look to see if he was coming and er we , what had had a big case with birds in and the lads who were doing it looked in this , saw the reflection and shh he 's coming . |
| 21 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 22 | One of my favourite memories of her goes back a few years to when she was playing Martina Navratilova in New England . |
| 23 | Dataquest Japan forecasts that while the office computer market at $4,600m is currently double the size of the workstation market , the market will decline at 7% annually over the next few years to 1996 , while Unix workstation shipments will grow at 29% a year over the period . |
| 24 | The partnership of Müller and Völker dates back a few years to the Bayreuth Festival — we have extracts of their portrayals there of these roles in 1936 ( but studio-made ) on Telefunken ( available on a variety of labels on LP ) . |
| 25 | Although , if we wish to test the depth of these mid-Victorian fears and also to judge the constancy of the vocabularies of reaction , then we must edge back a few years to an episode that would bring back flogging as a judicial punishment almost as soon as it had been abolished . |
| 26 | Entrants then work in a variety of units and can expect promotion within a few years to lance-corporal and corporal . |
| 27 | A trip to the blood donors may seem like a strange topic to write about in a staff magazine but it is one that took my mind back a few years to the first time my mum persuaded me to go . |
| 28 | But , even with all this sophisticated support , the final few years to the point of consumption continue to defy mechanisation . |
| 29 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 30 | So in the past few years since Big Bang we have seen dealers chasing every hare , especially since dealing volumes declined and firms have been more desperate to do business . |