Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] a [adj] 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 | It has been a major political and cultural force for a hundred years . |
| 3 | Such a person should , I think , be prepared to act in this capacity for a few years to ensure continuity . |
| 4 | Bards would sing of this moment for a thousand years . |
| 5 | All of which makes the Jorvik Viking Centre not just the journey of a lifetime , but the most exciting journey in a thousand years . |
| 6 | He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence . |
| 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 dissolution of the monasteries by the French in 1809 was the violent culmination of a twenty years ' campaign . |
| 10 | The training committee was wound up by Vic Machin , the chairman and the BMC secretary Derek Walker some months ago — but they have yet to inform the committee : a clear snub to the many volunteers who banged their heads against a wall with only limited success for a dozen years in a genuine attempt to impart some credibility to the BMC 's involvement in mountain training . |
| 11 | As a personal evaluation of a hundred years of Jewish-Greek contacts this was a remarkable statement . |
| 12 | The remainder included words such as ‘ oshac ’ and ‘ ae ’ , which have not been used in standard English for a hundred years — nice try snatched the £1O longest word prize with his beautifully simple nine letter word , ‘ refollows ’ . |
| 13 | Built in 1820 it ground corn for a hundred years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Even putting by a relatively small sum on a regular basis can lead to a healthy nest-egg after a few years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And I could n't tell a triple Axel from a double Salko in a million years , let alone perform one ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But I was n't into heroin on a full scale for a few years after that . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Annamese were part of the Chinese empire for a thousand years , Paul , remember . |
| 23 | Even then it has been calculated , taking systems as a whole , that the maximum rate of sedimentation would have been something like one foot in a thousand years . |
| 24 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | In just under two hours time Oxford Prison will close down , leaving the city without a gaol for the first time in a thousand years . |
| 27 | The result was to leave London without an elected representative body for the first time in a hundred years , and all the metropolitan areas without an authority responsible for producing an overall strategic plan . |
| 28 | One of Oxford 's two remaining women-only colleges has tonight decided to admit men for the first time in a hundred years . |
| 29 | It was a difficult period for a few years until the market caught up with us . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |