Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] few year " in BNC.
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1 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
2 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
3 | The book was a success : 500,000 copies were sold in a few years , and it was translated into all the major European languages . |
4 | Generally , the operational data ( that is the policy records ) were destroyed within a few years of their fulfilment . |
5 | If it were to happen in a few year 's time when we have the lottery money , then I think the Sutherland Collection Collection is something that anybody concerned with heritage should make the highest possible priority . |
6 | This had no very radical consequences : it was dropped after a few years , Diodorus says ( xi.87 ) , because too many of the prominent citizens were thereby discouraged from engaging in political life . |
7 | In the early fifties after the war the Home Guard was reformed for a few years and some of us , having been demobbed from the forces rejoined , but somehow the spirit of the " Dads ' Army " had gone and one felt the enthusiasm was not there . |
8 | Its equipment was removed within a few years and , by the late 1920s , it had become home to the Belvedere Upholstery Company , operated by the Tyler family . |
9 | The total cost of church , schoolroom , vestry , classrooms and minister 's residence was over 5000 , a debt which was cleared within a few years . |