Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] [art] few years " in BNC.

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1 I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home
2 To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios
3 It used to be in Bournemouth , they had it at Bournemouth for quite a few years .
4 That seems a far cry from just a few years ago when the only diesels were lorries , buses and the occasional taxi .
5 I 've been a carer for quite a few years now , until recently , when my grandmother died .
6 I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount .
7 Clarify , however , is positioning itself against the others as the most ‘ haute couture ’ of the breed , the kind of house that could easily mushroom into a $100m enterprise in just a few years .
8 The fords at first included were later replaced by some 40 bridges , many of which still stand , and many miles of the original road were in use until only a few years ago .
9 Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time .
10 ‘ Those men are his friends of quite a few years … ’
11 In the space of only a few years , they regularly flitted around Manchester .
12 Yet within the space of only a few years , all this optimism , not for the first time , was in tatters — against a world backdrop that was also changing : the waning of American economic strength ; the rise of Japan ; the rapid expansion of decolonialisation ; new superpower hostility with the Cuban missile crisis ; the slowing down of economic growth and indications of problems to come .
13 I think I 've sat is those auditorium seats in the same format for quite a few years now .
14 It is particularly appropriate for young patients with diabetes of only a few years ' duration and without complications .
15 And when it is burnt in large amounts , then the CO 2 that was taken up in the ancient world over a period of , say , a million years , may be released into the modern world in just a few years .
16 Right erm now that 's understandable er even , even members who get stuff posted directly such as , you know , we 've had a direct mailing system for quite a few years now , when you meet them you say what about I do n't know what you 're talking about ?
17 We went with Alec for quite a few years , and sometimes Mother would come too .
18 At present , the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods .
19 But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject .
20 A poll showed that Mr Da Silva won it , burying the myth that as an ex-factory worker with only a few years schooling he is unqualified for the presidency .
21 The first truly indigenous press was almost certainly that of Egypt , which began to appear during the nineteenth century ; but it predated black Africa 's press by only a few years .
22 Dave said : ‘ I have been raising money for charities at Bidds for quite a few years .
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