Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] year [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
| 2 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 3 | If you lose the same amount of money for a second year you 're down to a position where one small slip would take the business into insolvency . |
| 4 | For a dozen years it was a vintage period in all respects . |
| 5 | For a few years he was a lecturer in divinity at Hertford College and in 1911 published A Gospel Monogram . |
| 6 | Having worked at Billingham for a few years he was appointed as a commissioning engineer for an ammonia plant in Canada before moving in 1985 to manage the leading concept ammonia [ LCA ] plant at Severnside , Avonmouth . |
| 7 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
| 8 | The cost of unsold or unconsumed stocks will have been incurred in the expectation of future revenue , and when this will not arise until a later year it is appropriate to carry forward this cost to be matched with the revenue when it arises . |
| 9 | In an average year it 's about six to eight weeks actually expeditioning . |