Example sentences of "[art] few years [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Extraordinary though such a testimonial may now appear , it was invaluable to Joyce in the few years before the war . |
| 2 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 3 | I spent a few years on The Scotsman and then to Thomson House to join The Guardian soon after it dropped the ‘ Manchester ’ from its title and started printing in London . |
| 4 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 5 | They would rather continue earning this money for a few years with the hope of becoming financially independent , thus broadening their options and opportunities . |
| 6 | But the British Fascisti were in earnest , though doomed to extinction in a few years with the creation of Oswald Mosley 's New Party . |
| 7 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 8 | A few years down the road and along come the fitness men with their clipboards and stop-watches . |
| 9 | However , a few years down the line , a heavily discounted car might not look quite such a good bargain . |
| 10 | Within a few years of the introduction of the Dip.AD , it became apparent that all was not well and discontent in some of the art colleges culminated in the so-called ‘ revolution ’ of 1968 which centred on the then Hornsey and Guildford Colleges of Art . |
| 11 | In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas . |
| 12 | How the serious issues emerged within a few years of the miracle of Heliodorus is the question . |
| 13 | But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control . |
| 14 | The partnership of Müller and Völker dates back a few years to the Bayreuth Festival — we have extracts of their portrayals there of these roles in 1936 ( but studio-made ) on Telefunken ( available on a variety of labels on LP ) . |
| 15 | It dates from about 1390 BC , just a few years before the fall of the Labyrinth on the plain below . |
| 16 | At a parade a few years before the war , when the Crown Prince was a major rising thirty , the Kaiser had shown him up before all his men by calling out to the Brigadier , ‘ teach the boy how to ride ! ’ , and now their relationship was as distant and difficult as ever . |
| 17 | Is Horace , at the close of a poem published only a few years before the end of his own life , talking at and through " Torquatus " , talking to Rome , to the culture whose imperial destiny was beginning to seem less and less convincing and whose traditional virtues had become a matter of pious rhetoric ? |
| 18 | ‘ D'ye know what it is , ’ he growled , ‘ a few years in the army would do some of those boyos a power of good . |
| 19 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 20 | For one thing , the war was only a matter of a few years in the past and the number of potential suitors must have been severely limited , especially of the right intellect and calibre . |
| 21 | Similar criteria have often applied to the education officer who , after a few years in the classroom . |
| 22 | It was , as the Duchess said in her speech , an exciting event because Derbyshire had so few smaller manor houses of this type open to the public — and what made it all the more special was the fact that Eyam Hall is still the family home of the Wrights , who built ( or rather rebuilt ) it , a few years after the plague , in 1671 . |
| 23 | A few years after the end of our period ( 1887 ) the German professor Ferdinand Toennies formulated the distinction between Gemeinschaft ( community ) and Gesellschaft ( a society of individuals ) , two twins now familiar to every student of sociology . |
| 24 | But to all West Germany 's neighbours , the idea of a German military force only a few years after the defeat of Hitler s armies was still repugnant . |
| 25 | A few years after the dissection , it is believed that Philip O'Kelly , brother of the deceased Denis , gave the skeleton to Bond , who kept it in his premises in Upper Brook Street until his death . |
| 26 | In A.D. 6 , a few years after the death of Herod , Judaea was annexed and incorporated into the Roman Empire as a procuratorial province with Caesarea as its capital . |
| 27 | Only a few years after the war the arts became separated from ideology in a way that enabled both artistic practice and theory to gain so-called independence . |
| 28 | At a future review conference — such conferences will occur every few years in the Community — it might be desirable to go even further and press for a clause in the Community body of law that makes it crystal clear that all powers that are not specifically allocated to the Community should remain as of right with the member states , as is the case in the American constitution . |