Example sentences of "[prep] a few [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 2 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 3 | A Major or a Kinnock may work for decades in the hope of a few short years at the pinnacle of our political system . |
| 4 | Addison has encapsulated the result by observing accurately that ‘ for a few critical years after 1945 , the home front ran on without a war to sustain it , and Britain was reconstructed in the image of the war effort ’ . |
| 5 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And Judson in Burma burying his whole family within a few short years of getting there . |
| 8 | All this was to change in a few explosive years of expansion in the mid-twelfth century , shortly before Richard 's birth . |
| 9 | Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them . |
| 10 | Henry had thought of taking this line , but the trouble was , he found , one became almost too jolly at Donald 's expense , the implication being that he , the jammy bastard , was well off out of it , while they , the real sufferers , were condemned to a few more years of the horrors of living in Wimbledon . |