Example sentences of "[art] few years [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom 's latest acquisition is EMF 's Unbelievable and he makes the song as much his own as he did a few years ago with Prince 's Kiss . |
| 2 | An example of this might be the " embourgeoisement theory " which enjoyed widespread currency a few years ago in sociology , and which argued that the " working class " , in Britain , were becoming more like the " middle class " in their aspirations , consumption patterns and political views . |
| 3 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 4 | Thus Lizzie F. was able to take a few years out of work to nurse her mother , an auctioneer 's widow , before returning to work after her mother 's death . |
| 5 | For people from a closed world , I thought dimly , they 're well-informed — if a few years out of date . |
| 6 | Winter Marsh was on the Foulness side of the Roach , marked on my map — a few years out of date — as a restricted area because of the infantry training ground and firing ranges . |
| 7 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |