Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
| 2 | In many ways An Area of Darkness pre-empts Naipaul 's later work , India : A Wounded Civilization — about the devastation wrought by a thousand years of foreign rule . |
| 3 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 4 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 5 | This same attitude has underlain much of the industrial conflict during this century , and was to Tawney , and others , a ‘ disgrace even it was explicable in terms of the evils sown and ripened in a 150 years of capitalist morality , ( see Norman Dennis and A. H. Halsey , English Ethical Socialism , Clarendon Press , Oxford , 1988 , p. 163 ) . |
| 6 | The Zombie ( played by a well-known Horror Film Specialist ) had walked for a thousand years in a subterranean cavern which was broken open by an earthquake in Lisbon . |
| 7 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |
| 8 | The latter part of the decade saw St Owens Mill start up , followed within a few years by the Island Street and Victoria Street Mills , Luker also involved with the latter . |
| 9 | It is true that the quality of most waters runs in cycles ; a few years of mediocre fish followed by a few years of quality fish . |
| 10 | This is sound we hear with ears tuned by a billion years of evolution . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 12 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 15 | As the article correctly acknowledges , generally magnox fuel must be reprocessed within a few years of discharge from a reactor , from an advanced gas-cooled reactor ( AGR ) , fuel may be stored underwater for somewhat longer periods and for much longer in a dry store . |
| 16 | Generally , the operational data ( that is the policy records ) were destroyed within a few years of their fulfilment . |
| 17 | To split up a great State , created by a thousand years of historical development , means taking a big step backwards . |
| 18 | The V&A , we are told , set aside 50 per cent of its objects are required within a few years of their manufacture . |