Example sentences of "[art] few years [prep] [art] [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 We may hold them again at a price a hundred times their worth to us , for a few months , a few years at a pinch , but French they will still be , and in the end we must leave go of them .
9 Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time .
10 A few years down the road and along come the fitness men with their clipboards and stop-watches .
11 However , a few years down the line , a heavily discounted car might not look quite such a good bargain .
12 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 .
13 In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas .
14 How the serious issues emerged within a few years of the miracle of Heliodorus is the question .
15 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 .
16 Although , if we wish to test the depth of these mid-Victorian fears and also to judge the constancy of the vocabularies of reaction , then we must edge back a few years to an episode that would bring back flogging as a judicial punishment almost as soon as it had been abolished .
17 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 ) .
18 It dates from about 1390 BC , just a few years before the fall of the Labyrinth on the plain below .
19 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 .
20 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 ?
21 This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things .
22 ‘ D'ye know what it is , ’ he growled , ‘ a few years in the army would do some of those boyos a power of good .
23 Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making .
24 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 .
25 Similar criteria have often applied to the education officer who , after a few years in the classroom .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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