Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] for a few years " in BNC.
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1 | TESL was run as an alternative methods course for a few years , until TEFL/TESL became a combined methods course in 1986 . |
2 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
3 | They used the mill for silk manufacture for a few years but by 1860 ownership had passed to Samuel Long , who was also running Charfield Mills . |
4 | I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful . |
5 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
6 | There had been an active training group for a few years . |
7 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |