Example sentences of "[noun sg] for a few years and " in BNC.

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1 ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice .
2 Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament .
3 The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period .
4 I had lived in a motor car for a few years and the rediscovery of my legs was painful .
5 He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence .
6 He remained at sea for a few years and probably visited the United States .
7 We went into Street for a few years and then we came up here in nineteen twenty eight .
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