Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] a few [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems likely that yet another northward-dipping thrust will develop even further to the south in a few million years . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |