Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 2 | Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back . |
| 3 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 4 | Gene Nocon introduced me to the technique of pre-flash a few years ago and it altered the way I approach printing . |
| 5 | One critic , reviewing Field of Dreams a few years ago , claimed Hollywood was now besotted with the family . |
| 6 | Borg 's disappearance from top tennis , like Harold Wilson 's withdrawal from government a few years before , constitutes one of the great resignation puzzles of modern times . |
| 7 | He was one of the three walking brothers who had stopped their walk to admire the May-Day dance in Marlott a few years before . |
| 8 | In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say . |
| 9 | One Steiff teddy fetched £55,000 at auction a few years ago , although Stonegate 's reproduction of it is somewhat more sensible priced at £175 . |
| 10 | ‘ Was n't he involved in some sort of scandal a few years ago ? ’ |
| 11 | That Aethelbald 's position in southern England at the end of his reign was still a dominant one is suggested by the description of him in the record of this grant as ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of the surrounding peoples ’ , but it may be that a diminution of power in the early 750s played a part in exposing him to assassination in Mercia a few years later . |
| 12 | At a business seminar in Australia a few years ago , Kerry Packer described his method of obtaining loans : ‘ Make sure you get the bankers to come to your office . |
| 13 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
| 14 | We picked these up on a visit we made to the island of Haiti a few years ago , and they 've become part of our Christmas celebrations ever since . ’ |
| 15 | Mr Hill won £6,000 with Littlewoods a few years ago . |
| 16 | The National Football League was nervous about London 's reaction to the first game at Wembley a few years ago , and whether it would be profitable . |
| 17 | The dropping of the detailed prescription of hours a few years later did not disturb history 's dominant position among the core subjects of the liberal , grammar tradition . |
| 18 | The following song was broadcast on the radio and was on sale in the record shops , yet the wearing of miniskirts a few years later was denounced as improper and an example of western sexual decadence and permissiveness ! |
| 19 | Ferrasse 's low-key reaction to the incident contrasted vividly with his robust treatment of Jean-Pierre Garuet after the Lourdes prop was sent off in an international against Ireland a few years ago . |
| 20 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 21 | He talked about the bad publicity for the Russians flowing from an incident in London a few years before , when the Bulgarian secret service murdered a political exile in London . |
| 22 | He remembered how she had reluctantly sat down to play him and a couple of other men at poker a few years before . |
| 23 | Mr Hitch 's son told me that there was a lack of enthusiasm a few years ago but , with new blood on the committee , it is once again gaining in popularity . |
| 24 | Close friendships with girls a few years older or younger than oneself were actively discouraged , and it seemed to us that to be seen in earnest conversation with a girl who belonged neither to one 's own year or one 's own house was tantamount to admitting that one was engaged in a lesbian liaison . |
| 25 | United Motors had already built a component plant in Dublin a few years before , at the specific request of the Chairman , but it had never operated profitably . |
| 26 | In the very next group I chanced upon that guy , you know the one , he used to read the weather on TVS a few years back , grey hair , quite tall , you know , John something . |