Example sentences of "[prep] a few years of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few years of indecision Nero finally chose military glory . |
| 2 | After a few years of management experience gained in clay-making departments and a brief spell as a studio artist with Johnson Matthey , Roy felt the need for further managerial training . |
| 3 | Frequently , the newer and more expensive designs prove , after a few years of use ( and a few hundred hapless patients ) , to give results substantially worse than this and are quietly withdrawn from the market despite initial optimism over their theoretical advantages . |
| 4 | I continued donating until late 1987 when the pressures of my early twenties swept me into a few years of self neglect by alcohol and all those unhealthy things that young people do . |
| 5 | As the article correctly acknowledges , generally magnox fuel must be reprocessed within a few years of discharge from a reactor , from an advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) , fuel may be stored underwater for somewhat longer periods and for much longer in a dry store . |
| 6 | ‘ Citation frequency within a few years of publication is a reliable indicator of a paper 's lifetime citation expectancy . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ His former students will within a few years of graduation be earning a salary twice that of his , ’ the report says . |
| 8 | Within a few years of transfer to the South Metropolitan system , all these cars had the headlamps moved from the canopy front to the usual position on the dash , one reason being that it enabled them to carry advertisements in the same positions as the rest of the fleet . |
| 9 | Under the legislation this was not in fact required ( only the Boards as a whole were required to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ ) , but Citrine and his senior colleagues believed that it was a desirable principle that each Board should break even , and within a few years of nationalisation this was also tacitly accepted by the Boards . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Within a few years of closure , the mill pond was filled in and much of the mill 's machinery removed . |
| 12 | It is true that the quality of most waters runs in cycles ; a few years of mediocre fish followed by a few years of quality fish . |