Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] years [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 2 | After a few years of indecision Nero finally chose military glory . |
| 3 | After a few years of management experience gained in clay-making departments and a brief spell as a studio artist with Johnson Matthey , Roy felt the need for further managerial training . |
| 4 | Frequently , the newer and more expensive designs prove , after a few years of use ( and a few hundred hapless patients ) , to give results substantially worse than this and are quietly withdrawn from the market despite initial optimism over their theoretical advantages . |
| 5 | After a few years in management , you know who they are , and it will be put right . ’ |
| 6 | Others want it to become a museum , preserving forever a taste of a thousand years of incarceration |
| 7 | Mind you , with a hundred years of refinement and improvement behind it , you still ca n't afford to ignore good old ‘ Sutton Globe ’ . |
| 8 | I continued donating until late 1987 when the pressures of my early twenties swept me into a few years of self neglect by alcohol and all those unhealthy things that young people do . |
| 9 | Entrants then work in a variety of units and can expect promotion within a few years to lance-corporal and corporal . |
| 10 | As the article correctly acknowledges , generally magnox fuel must be reprocessed within a few years of discharge from a reactor , from an advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) , fuel may be stored underwater for somewhat longer periods and for much longer in a dry store . |
| 11 | ‘ Citation frequency within a few years of publication is a reliable indicator of a paper 's lifetime citation expectancy . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ His former students will within a few years of graduation be earning a salary twice that of his , ’ the report says . |
| 13 | Within a few years of transfer to the South Metropolitan system , all these cars had the headlamps moved from the canopy front to the usual position on the dash , one reason being that it enabled them to carry advertisements in the same positions as the rest of the fleet . |
| 14 | Under the legislation this was not in fact required ( only the Boards as a whole were required to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ ) , but Citrine and his senior colleagues believed that it was a desirable principle that each Board should break even , and within a few years of nationalisation this was also tacitly accepted by the Boards . |
| 15 | The bank is looking for someone canny — not to say extremely gifted — who has developed the right skills in a reasonably sized corporate environment within a few years of qualifying . |
| 16 | Within a few years of closure , the mill pond was filled in and much of the mill 's machinery removed . |
| 17 | In A Hundred Years of Solitude we even sense that the writer wants to take us back into childhood , into the time when ‘ the world was … recent . ’ |
| 18 | In the unblinking black eyes were a thousand upon a thousand years of survival . |
| 19 | It is true that the quality of most waters runs in cycles ; a few years of mediocre fish followed by a few years of quality fish . |
| 20 | This is sound we hear with ears tuned by a billion years of evolution . |