Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] a few years " in BNC.

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1 Any Associate is recruited with the prospect that he or she will be eligible for partnership after a few years : business development abilities , superior counselling skills in the field and a deep commitment to the firm and its progress are qualities which will rapidly become determinant .
2 HANS Wagenknecht , 24 , is a physics student from Germany who will be looking for work in a few years .
3 Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament .
4 ‘ We could find people who wanted £3m worth of business over a few years , but failed to get any quick profit deals .
5 Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise .
6 forbidding the use of capillary fittings containing lead-based solder on pipes supplying drinking water ( see Chapter 2 ) n changing the size of flushing cisterns used with WCs ( to come into effect in a few years ' time — see Chapter 8 )
7 We went into Street for a few years and then we came up here in nineteen twenty eight .
8 In contrast to a few years ago when one would rarely hear any teaching on the Holy Spirit , it seems that some people can speak of nothing else these days .
9 Yeah , they had n't been in hospital for a few years , they have n't , I 've never known to go in .
10 Astra does not expect to make a profit on omeprazole for a few years yet , and — unfortunately for Astra — Glaxo has the resources to continue the scientific tussle .
11 But the British Fascisti were in earnest , though doomed to extinction in a few years with the creation of Oswald Mosley 's New Party .
12 Carole Ann Ford made her first film appearance at the age of eight , retired to school for a few years , and then emerged again at fifteen , working constantly thereafter until her landing of the part of Susan Foreman in the Summer of 1963 .
13 I 'd been to sea for a few years .
14 Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter …
15 He remained at sea for a few years and probably visited the United States .
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