Example sentences of "few years in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 2 | After a few years in atomic energy research he then discovered his vocation as teacher and enthusiast as a lecturer in chemistry at Birkenhead Technical College , where he also voluntarily taught about theatre , literature and music in a humanities section . |
| 3 | Latin American art has been undergoing such a review both from within Latin America itself and from elsewhere , with several exhibitions and books on the subject in the last few years in Europe and the US . |
| 4 | There have been several cases in the last few years in which police and Immigration Officers have raided factories and taken workers away . |
| 5 | Japan 's Matsushita and Sony have each invested more than $5 billion over the past few years in America 's entertainment business , while Time and Warner have merged in the belief that big companies can best exploit a proliferating array of new media . |
| 6 | Many beekeepers have been examining their bees carefully for the past few years in efforts to find the mite . |
| 7 | After a few years in management , you know who they are , and it will be put right . ’ |
| 8 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 9 | ‘ D'ye know what it is , ’ he growled , ‘ a few years in the army would do some of those boyos a power of good . |
| 10 | Similar criteria have often applied to the education officer who , after a few years in the classroom . |
| 11 | At the same time levels of public expenditure on the railways have been declining steadily over the past few years in the run-up to an expected privatisation and are now well below those of Britain 's Continental neighbours . |
| 12 | Although this may be unwelcome , particularly if you are very fond of the place in which you live , the alternative may be that you spend the next few years in a state of anxiety and misery because of money worries . |
| 13 | After his release from prison , Wilde went to spend his final few years in France . |
| 14 | A few years in Leeds will broaden her horizons , even if she does n't find a husband . |
| 15 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 16 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 17 | Most of them , however , left Romania before the last few years in an attempt to capitalise on what 's left of their playing careers . |
| 18 | They were , and the Pryces spent a few years in married bliss before the third Lady Pryce died in 1748 . |
| 19 | Henley Forecasting believe that interest in sports activity will experience positive growth over the next few years in response to a rise in income levels and an increasing awareness of the importance of regular exercise in maintaining good health . |
| 20 | In my first few years in the London activist network I was several times courted ( it seems the only appropriate word ) to join currently all-male organizations as a token lesbian but none of them offered , alongside the assumption that this would be a privileged or welcome position , the incentive that Switchboard did : the callers . |
| 21 | I have had a few years in which to practise cooking and , somewhat immodestly , I think this cake recipe could be classed as excellent . |
| 22 | On the whole , those first few years in North Cornwall were very happy times for me . |
| 23 | Although financial director Michael Langley said that the product is approaching the end of its life , he believes ‘ there are a few years in it yet ’ , and expects 1993 sales levels to be maintained at roughly the same as 1992s . |
| 24 | His party , though divided over Macedonia and the economy , is entitled to claim that its record includes nothing as bad as the Socialists ' foolish first few years in power in the 1980s . |
| 25 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |
| 26 | Prince Charles argued that they should be brought up initially by Mabel Anderson , his childhood nanny , and then a governess employed to educate the boys for the first few years in the privacy of Kensington Palace . |
| 27 | The majority of reported decisions over the next few years in other State courts took the Californian position , that first resort was to be had to the Convention procedures . |
| 28 | The American embassy in Seoul reviewed the history of guerrilla activity over the past few years in April 1950 . |
| 29 | In the first few years in a district the officer learns about his territory as thoroughly as possible . |
| 30 | This had begun to develop significantly in the past few years in terms of quality . |