Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] few years and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice . |
| 2 | Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament . |
| 3 | : Ma for a few years and recently we 've reassessed the doses and also we 've reassessed the risks so those two things together have caused us to express our concern and to advise the government what to do about it . |
| 4 | The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period . |
| 5 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
| 6 | New sayings are on everyone 's lips for a few years and then for no reason they disappear , becoming as dead and as dated as the dodo . |
| 7 | Because I think it was Tommy that said it was really after the one finished and there was nothing else round about that there was a gap of a few years and then you got started again here . |
| 8 | Does n't he say something about there 's gon na be ten thousand small schools in a few years and erm |
| 9 | But it was also the beginning of the split between law-abiders and law-breakers which was to cripple the movement within a few years and lead to its decline . |
| 10 | He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence . |
| 11 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 12 | Darwin settled down in London for a few years and became an active member of the Geological Society . |
| 13 | For this reason , the Institute will restrict the examination to candidates who have been trained by holders of the Dip CITT. for a few years and then review the situation to see whether the professional structures have developed enough to sustain new entrants . |
| 14 | He remained at sea for a few years and probably visited the United States . |
| 15 | We went into Street for a few years and then we came up here in nineteen twenty eight . |