Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christians of different denominations feel much closer together now — at the parish level — than they used to even a few years ago . |
| 2 | As the appliances will be used for quite a few years , perhaps under changing circumstances as couples have children , it 's important to look ahead and not just buy the cheapest model to save a few pounds . |
| 3 | So there are some new facets to catering in the RAF today compared with even a few years ago . |
| 4 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 5 | In its first annual report , it pointed to the difficulties in some areas particularly in the south-east and the west midlands where the available land was limited to only a few years ' supply . |
| 6 | Are these words to use about an ally you stood shoulder to shoulder with only a few years back ? ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |