Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 2 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 3 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 4 | ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’ |
| 5 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
| 6 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 7 | Best wishes and thanks for making the old rag worth reading again for a few years … |
| 8 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 9 | This was the new name of a group which had already existed informally for a few years , with a number of representatives from well-known " reforming " Edinburgh families on its committee : the McLarens , Mairs and Stevensons for instance . |
| 10 | They stayed away for a few years , moving between the markets of the Sahel , exploiting differences in prices in different markets , until they had enough camels to go to Cairo . |
| 11 | Work ended abruptly after a few years — the builders did n't even bother to take their ladder away . |