Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [adv] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we moved round every three or at the most four years , and er we we 've been up in Scotland and er Yorkshire , Lancashire , and down East Anglia . |
| 2 | They were thirteen or at the most fourteen years old , but to me they were very grand grown-ups . |
| 3 | It seemed like a good idea at the time , but that time , I could feel , was running out , and I could see that in a very few years it would have run . |
| 4 | To become a member during that brief period demanded a lower level of commitment than in the more repressive years which preceded and followed it , and intelligenty members were now heavily outnumbered . |
| 5 | In Mr Coleman 's early career , and even until within a very few years , the veterinary art , so far as regards its application to cattle , sheep , swine , dogs , etc. , was in the lowest state of barbarism and degradation . |
| 6 | The railway pushed on to Birmingham , the army of navvies departed , the convulsion subsided , and within a very few years |