Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few years [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 2 | Darwin settled down in London for a few years and became an active member of the Geological Society . |
| 3 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 4 | In the few years that followed , Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing . |
| 5 | In the few years that followed , it is unlikely that you would get back as much as you paid in . |