Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 10 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |