Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] a few year " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
| 2 | And what has happened before a few years have passed ? |
| 3 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 4 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years . |
| 7 | He continued to work until a few years ago and from then on passed much of his time in London . |
| 8 | Wooderson continued running for a few years , winning the European 5,000 metres and stretching his span of achievement from world record breaker at half-mile to national cross-country champion over nine miles in 1949 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 11 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |