Example sentences of "[art] few [adj] years [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the Palaeocene , only a few million years from the Cretaceous extinction of the giant reptiles , there were representatives of many of the living mammalian orders , including , for example , the primates ( the order to which man belongs ) , the carnivores ( cats dogs , and most living predators ) and the rodents ( rats , mice ) . |
| 2 | The ring of gas in Supernova 1987A was not created in the explosion but ejected from the progenitor star a few thousand years before the explosion . |
| 3 | Later , the star evolved into a blue supergiant , just a few thousand years before the explosion . |
| 4 | A Major or a Kinnock may work for decades in the hope of a few short years at the pinnacle of our political system . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Stuart bellowed his words as if answering a court-martial and failure to enunciate perfectly at top volume would earn him a few more years in the glasshouse . |
| 8 | 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 . |