Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | These lovely plants may take time to form large flowering clumps but after a few years are a sight to behold and are worth every bit of effort you expend . |
| 2 | Eventually James Wyllie married Mrs. Kay 's sister and after a few years the Wyllie family took over the firm , retaining the name , Andrew Kay & Company . |
| 3 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |
| 4 | These inspired the Chinese people and within a few years , there had been major efforts to move away from the centralised , planned economic system which was typical of communist regimes . |
| 5 | Quitting England , the two moved into the abandoned eighteenth-century château Castille in Provence which they renovated The pictures were Douglas 's and the furniture was mine ’ , says Richardson and in a few years , Cooper and Richardson made the place a private museum and shrine to Cubism and its creators , and where Picasso , Leger and Braque were frequent visitors . |
| 6 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
| 7 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 8 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 9 | It should also be credited with the fact that within a few years very little more was heard from politicians about the importance of the much-vaunted ‘ British independent nuclear deterrent ’ against which CND had originally campaigned . |