Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] years [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father encouraged her desire to learn navigation and other aspects of seamanship , and after a few years her proficiency was obvious to everyone who sailed with her . |
| 2 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 3 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 4 | In a few years her shame , and she herself , would be forgotten . |
| 5 | He used to say that in a few years his uncle would retire ; then he would be in control . ’ |