Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] few year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 2 | He continued to work until a few years ago and from then on passed much of his time in London . |
| 3 | Wooderson continued running for a few years , winning the European 5,000 metres and stretching his span of achievement from world record breaker at half-mile to national cross-country champion over nine miles in 1949 . |
| 4 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 5 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |