Example sentences of "[that] [prep] a [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’
2 Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm .
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 He used to say that in a few years his uncle would retire ; then he would be in control . ’
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 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 .
8 We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves .
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 .
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