Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a few [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 2 | We have already quoted part of the letter to Rohde , written in December , which gives the best testimony to Nietzsche 's state of mind : " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years … |
| 3 | A Major or a Kinnock may work for decades in the hope of a few short years at the pinnacle of our political system . |
| 4 | It seems likely that yet another northward-dipping thrust will develop even further to the south in a few million years . |
| 5 | A local newspaper in Sussex recently published a reader 's letter complaining that Darwin 's evolution theory is still taught in schools and colleges instead of creation , despite ‘ scientific evidence limiting the age of the Earth and Universe to a few thousand years ’ . |
| 6 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 7 | Such is the general expectation that married couples will have children that those who do not want them , or want to put parenthood on a few more years , or sadly learn that they can not conceive , find themselves having to respond to veiled or not so veiled queries . |
| 8 | AZT does give you a chance for a few more years . |
| 9 | In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it . |
| 10 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 11 | She was too young to be away from home ; he should have been sure of her company for a few more years yet . |
| 12 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 13 | Inside , the rooms are light and panelled with elegant pedimented overdoors , and it is sad to think that the full splendour of Bullen Reynes 's house was only enjoyed by his son and his family for a few short years ; the bulk of it burned down in 1704 . |
| 14 | And Judson in Burma burying his whole family within a few short years of getting there . |