Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] years [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few years this scheme was pronounced a failure . |
| 2 | A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers . |
| 3 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
| 4 | Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops . |
| 5 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
| 6 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
| 7 | From 1066 to 1558 France had been the country that England would fight if she was going to fight anyone , but for over a hundred years that role of the perpetual enemy had been taken by Spain or — in the minds of a few people — by the Netherlands . |