Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |
| 2 | That seems a far cry from just a few years ago when the only diesels were lorries , buses and the occasional taxi . |
| 3 | I 've been a carer for quite a few years now , until recently , when my grandmother died . |
| 4 | Clarify , however , is positioning itself against the others as the most ‘ haute couture ’ of the breed , the kind of house that could easily mushroom into a $100m enterprise in just a few years . |
| 5 | The fords at first included were later replaced by some 40 bridges , many of which still stand , and many miles of the original road were in use until only a few years ago . |
| 6 | Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time . |
| 7 | In the space of only a few years , they regularly flitted around Manchester . |
| 8 | Yet within the space of only a few years , all this optimism , not for the first time , was in tatters — against a world backdrop that was also changing : the waning of American economic strength ; the rise of Japan ; the rapid expansion of decolonialisation ; new superpower hostility with the Cuban missile crisis ; the slowing down of economic growth and indications of problems to come . |
| 9 | I think I 've sat is those auditorium seats in the same format for quite a few years now . |
| 10 | It is particularly appropriate for young patients with diabetes of only a few years ' duration and without complications . |
| 11 | And when it is burnt in large amounts , then the CO 2 that was taken up in the ancient world over a period of , say , a million years , may be released into the modern world in just a few years . |
| 12 | Right erm now that 's understandable er even , even members who get stuff posted directly such as , you know , we 've had a direct mailing system for quite a few years now , when you meet them you say what about I do n't know what you 're talking about ? |
| 13 | But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject . |
| 14 | A poll showed that Mr Da Silva won it , burying the myth that as an ex-factory worker with only a few years schooling he is unqualified for the presidency . |
| 15 | The first truly indigenous press was almost certainly that of Egypt , which began to appear during the nineteenth century ; but it predated black Africa 's press by only a few years . |