Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [prep] [art] [det] years " in BNC.
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1 | A great deal is going on in those regions , and people in the south who have not been north of Watford Gap for a few years should go and see what is happening there . |
2 | An unknown writer observing at the restoration work of 1887 says of the nave , the walls were found to be covered with old surface paintings , and Fielding in his Memories of Malling , writes , " In Halling Church until a few years ago existed the uncouth painting over the chancel arch , variously described as the tale of the unfaithful wife and the emblematic representation of the seven deadly sins . |
3 | This comment may have drawn attention to Mary Leapor for a few years . |
4 | I have not seen Brian Way for a few years now , since he went to work in America , but if he is continually developing his philosophy and practice at the rate Dorothy Heathcote is refining hers , then there is the added danger that anything written about them is out of date as it leaves the press . |
5 | Example 1 is the hook riff from a well known Huey Lewis tune from a few years back . |
6 | ‘ PhD STUDENTS will flock to Sri Lanka in a few years ’ time and write learned theses on the inappropriateness of high technology aid for poor countries ’ , predicts a Sri Lankan lawyer , Gamini Iriyagolle , a specialist on the Mahaweli Programme , one of the world 's biggest development schemes under way anywhere . |
7 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
8 | Living with his mother Kiefer stayed in Los Angeles for a few years before moving back to Bridgewater Canada . |
9 | Oswaldston 's going to be living off Walter Machin for a few years . ’ |