Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would rather continue earning this money for a few years with the hope of becoming financially independent , thus broadening their options and opportunities . |
| 2 | Such a person should , I think , be prepared to act in this capacity for a few years to ensure continuity . |
| 3 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 4 | We could learn much from CPRE which has been administering a Campaign Fund for this purpose for a few years . |
| 5 | Thus , we have : For two main reasons , economists are usually quite happy to work with ‘ gross ’ rather than ‘ net ’ figures : first , depreciation tends to change only slowly over time so that the ‘ gross ’ and ‘ net ’ figures move closely together over any period of a few years ; and secondly , depreciation figures are notoriously difficult to estimate with any accuracy . |
| 6 | There are very few of those artists of the 1980s whom I think will have any standing in a few years . |
| 7 | ‘ Is there a potential on the Earth now , ’ Tooley asked , ‘ for catastrophic , subglacial floods raising sea level by 23cm in a few weeks or several metres in a few years ? ’ |
| 8 | Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it . |