Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [det] 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 | British waterways launched a competition to find the family which has put in the most years of work in a dock . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The calculation behind the memorial was naturally that most of the women would leave to get married within a few years . |
| 6 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 7 | There were unpaid bills , receipts and invoices , all spread around the large dog-eared ledger that Fred had used for the past-few years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 10 | ( 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 . ) |