Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] [art] [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would rather continue earning this money for a few years with the hope of becoming financially independent , thus broadening their options and opportunities . |
| 2 | Though the unit still has responsibility for keeping ministers informed of developments in the UK oil and gas industry , most of the 86 staff working for OSO now focus on worldwide developments , including opportunities in the former Soviet republics and other areas which were closed markets to British exporters until a few years ago . |
| 3 | Such a person should , I think , be prepared to act in this capacity for a few years to ensure continuity . |
| 4 | Although the endless state visits to Harare or Mauretania always climaxed with the publication of pompous declarations and assertions that trade was going to increase by generous percentages within a few years , the consequences of these visits were negligible apart from providing a few more exhibits for the trophy rooms in Bucharest . |
| 5 | He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence . |
| 6 | At the same time , the social benefits in the few years since 1979 have been significant . |
| 7 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 8 | We could learn much from CPRE which has been administering a Campaign Fund for this purpose for a few years . |
| 9 | The bank is looking for someone canny — not to say extremely gifted — who has developed the right skills in a reasonably sized corporate environment within a few years of qualifying . |
| 10 | No I can understand her not having , not wanting kids for a few years but , ca n't you ? |
| 11 | Many Glaswegians were to join the International Brigade within a few years , Scots like James Robertson Justice , pointing rifles upwards at the Heinkel 111 and Junkers 52 of Adolf Hitler 's Luftwaffe . |
| 12 | Even putting by a relatively small sum on a regular basis can lead to a healthy nest-egg after a few years . |
| 13 | After she had finished midwifery and two years as a Benedict 's junior sister she had joined the Royal Navy as a nursing sister for a few years . |
| 14 | The company 's chief executive , Dr David Horrobin , said that employment could be expected to increase if progress continues and the products are licensed by the Government for clinical use in a few years ' time . |
| 15 | But I was n't into heroin on a full scale for a few years after that . |
| 16 | The results come hard on the heels of a forecast by the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency , who says he is confident that a series of factors will lead to a ‘ relaunch ’ of nuclear power in a few years ' time . |
| 17 | Does n't he say something about there 's gon na be ten thousand small schools in a few years and erm |
| 18 | That is still a far cry from the several years of falling output that would be needed to justify the term ‘ depression ’ . |
| 19 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 20 | In Kufra the police and , so far as it is possible to know , the secret police , were all Kufrans ; in Ajdabiya the officers reflected the tribal composition of the local population ( although their deputy chief was an outsider on temporary assignment for a few years ) . |
| 21 | Third , there was the severe deterioration of industrial relations in the few years prior to 1914 which brought with it violent strikes and syndicalism . |
| 22 | If the pattern holds , Europe will have thriving private-placement markets within a few years . |
| 23 | It was a difficult period for a few years until the market caught up with us . ’ |
| 24 | Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy . |
| 25 | There are very few of those artists of the 1980s whom I think will have any standing in a few years . |
| 26 | ‘ Is there a potential on the Earth now , ’ Tooley asked , ‘ for catastrophic , subglacial floods raising sea level by 23cm in a few weeks or several metres in a few years ? ’ |
| 27 | If your memories are stirring uneasily around thoughts of the odious and contemptible graverobbing expedition of a few years back to try and recover Mallory and Irvine 's ‘ camera and other remains ’ , forget it . |
| 28 | Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it . |
| 29 | I was growing , but I 'm now , I never got much higher than about five foot one and I weighed eight stone for a many years . |
| 30 | On Nov. 27 James Chin , head of WHO 's AIDS forecasting unit , had warned that AIDS would be the main cause of death among young women in western Europe within a few years . |