Example sentences of "few years [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It seems likely that in the next few years funding will be increased minimally and competition will also grow . |
| 3 | For a few years funding for memory research became hard to come by . |
| 4 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 5 | One of the wonder boys we sold a few years back was Ian Snodin , to Everton . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Mr Knight anticipates that over the next few years manufacturing capacity will expand and business may be further developed via a joint venture . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But over the past few years fashion for men has experienced something of a silent revolution , with smoother lines and looser fits becoming ever more popular . |
| 13 | In the town itself over the next few years Class meetings were formed in West Street , Corcrain , Edenderry , Levaghery , Lisniskey and Kernan . |
| 14 | Over the past few years wind generators and solar panels have become cheaper . |
| 15 | In a few years time the two German states could be virtually a single economic area . |
| 16 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 17 | This is the cheaper option , but it may leave you stuck with single glazing and a recurrence of your existing maintenance problems in a few years time . |
| 18 | It 's safe to say that in a few years time they will be playing Las Vegas . ’ |
| 19 | He might , in a few years time , become one but who knows . |
| 20 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 21 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 22 | In a few years time the fundholders may have very little room to manoeuvre but will still have to cope with the burden of administering their fund . |
| 23 | That contrasts with what some policies will lead to in a few years time if we are going to have complete closure of some long stay hospitalS . |
| 24 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 25 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 26 | This particular defence was optional in the EC Product Liability Directive but has been adopted in the United Kingdom ; it seems sensible because standards of safety change over time and what might seem perfectly acceptable now might be considered grossly unsafe in a few years time . |
| 27 | He 'll be out in a few years time . |
| 28 | She said : ‘ We talked about marriage and Kirk said he did n't want to get married , maybe in a few years time . |
| 29 | In a few years time . |
| 30 | So all them hassles what you 're gon na get in the future when they they 're gon na fall out in a few years time . |