Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] years " 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 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 4 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 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 | For some reason the thought that he seriously did n't care one way or another what her opinions were wounded her pride more than she would ever have admitted in a million years . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's told me things that you 'd never have admitted in a hundred years . ’ |
| 8 | The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years . |
| 9 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 10 | The Zombie ( played by a well-known Horror Film Specialist ) had walked for a thousand years in a subterranean cavern which was broken open by an earthquake in Lisbon . |
| 11 | We 've known for a hundred years that there were Roman burials in this area . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 14 | In the eighteenth century Aragon , where agriculture was prospering and olive groves had doubled in a hundred years , had become an industrially depressed region . |
| 15 | ( 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 . ) |
| 16 | The hurricane , the flood or the tsunami may do more in an hour or a day than the ordinary processes of nature have achieved in a thousand years . |