Example sentences of "the [noun] [prep] a few years " in BNC.
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| 31 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 32 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |
| 33 | as he reflects the situation of a few years ago . |
| 34 | Many young people are attracted by the idea of a few years teaching EFL overseas on the basis of a minimal qualification , and the employment situation is therefore an essentially transient one . |
| 35 | The root form has the ability to reproduce itself by parthenogenesis several times throughout the year for a few years without passing into another form . |