Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 2 | One is brought back to the fundamental conclusion that throughout the Primary years it is the children 's activity that is the key to full development . |
| 3 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
| 4 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
| 5 | But once the technology becomes more refined , I definitely think that in a few years you 'll have a lot of people who do n't touch chemicals at all . |
| 6 | But once the technology becomes more refined , I definitely think that in a few years you 'll have a lot of people who do n't touch chemicals at all . |
| 7 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 8 | ‘ It is true that in the eighteen years she has been here I have never heard her speak . |
| 9 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |
| 10 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 11 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 12 | Merceron 's political career began in 1787 , and within a few years he had became a vestryman , a tax commissioner , and a justice of the peace . |
| 13 | Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is . |
| 14 | His highly influential study ‘ Working for Ford ’ , was published in 1973 and over the succeeding years he has continued his studies of the changing strategies of multinational corporation in a variety of different contexts . |
| 15 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 16 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 17 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 18 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 19 | In so far as war recruitment affected the labour market , by emphasising labour shortage in the brisk years it may have helped advance money wages , while in the worst years it may have limited the extent of unemployment . |