Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] years of the " in BNC.

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1 Within a hundred years of the missionaries ' arrival many English men and women had enthusiastically adopted the monasticism which was considered the purest form of the Christian life and the surest way to salvation , and which had spread throughout western Europe in the fifth and sixth centuries .
2 In any case , one or another form of ‘ Christianity ’ must have reached Britain within a few years of the time specified by Gildas .
3 But within a few years of the end of the war , responsibility for trunk roads , gas , electricity , national assistance and hospital services had been transferred from local to central government control .
4 Within a few years of the introduction of the Dip.AD , it became apparent that all was not well and discontent in some of the art colleges culminated in the so-called ‘ revolution ’ of 1968 which centred on the then Hornsey and Guildford Colleges of Art .
5 How the serious issues emerged within a few years of the miracle of Heliodorus is the question .
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