Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [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 | Such a person should , I think , be prepared to act in this capacity for a few years to ensure continuity . |
| 3 | He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence . |
| 4 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 5 | We could learn much from CPRE which has been administering a Campaign Fund for this purpose for a few years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even putting by a relatively small sum on a regular basis can lead to a healthy nest-egg after a few years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But I was n't into heroin on a full scale for a few years after that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | It was a difficult period for a few years until the market caught up with us . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There are very few of those artists of the 1980s whom I think will have any standing in a few years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It is for this reason that the CDP has advocated direct government funding , an advocacy which seems extremely unlikely to succeed as the government will surely want to try out the new system for a few years before sanctioning any radical alteration . |
| 22 | The rhizome ( rootstock ) will remain in the heated tank for a few years producing fresh plants after periodic overwintering . |
| 23 | It is quite impossible to believe that he will fade from the scene on formal retirement in a few years ' time . |
| 24 | Saying that it would be a year of difficulties , with China entering the peak repayment period of domestic and foreign debt , he further stated that people would have to " live an austere life for a few years " . |