Example sentences of "[adj] years [conj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that employee numbers have been reduced by around an eighth over the last few years but only as a by-product of the printer 's massive £130m capital investment programme . |
| 2 | And although it is not clear what was meant by ‘ real ’ crime , it is evident that certain kinds of common theft , damage and injury were regarded as wholly commonplace in pre-war years and hardly worth a moment 's thought . |
| 3 | Such an event might be theft , fire , illness or even death ; within the next year , the next many years or even within a lifetime . |
| 4 | Move forward seventy years or so to a different household in another part of France . |
| 5 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 6 | He does n't correspond to any of the multiple fictions produced over the last hundred years or so by a long line of social reformers and slum missionaries of what the working class should be . |