Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 2 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 3 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 4 | Like the books mentioned above , its specific content will be superseded in a few years ; but in meantime the book may be able to rescue some future Nobel laureates from becoming otherwise lost in cyberspace . |
| 5 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 6 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
| 7 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 8 | The effervescent executive is likely to be gone in a few years , many of the employees will be gone , and the owners may be different as well . |
| 9 | The ground was cropped until it was exhausted and had to be left for a few years to recuperate . |
| 10 | A short cork is perfectly adequate for a wine destined to be drunk within a few years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was felt that this type of exercise would probably not be repeated for a few years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The book was a success : 500,000 copies were sold in a few years , and it was translated into all the major European languages . |
| 15 | Generally , the operational data ( that is the policy records ) were destroyed within a few years of their fulfilment . |
| 16 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The V&A , we are told , set aside 50 per cent of its objects are required within a few years of their manufacture . |
| 19 | This had no very radical consequences : it was dropped after a few years , Diodorus says ( xi.87 ) , because too many of the prominent citizens were thereby discouraged from engaging in political life . |
| 20 | In the early fifties after the war the Home Guard was reformed for a few years and some of us , having been demobbed from the forces rejoined , but somehow the spirit of the " Dads ' Army " had gone and one felt the enthusiasm was not there . |
| 21 | Its equipment was removed within a few years and , by the late 1920s , it had become home to the Belvedere Upholstery Company , operated by the Tyler family . |
| 22 | The total cost of church , schoolroom , vestry , classrooms and minister 's residence was over 5000 , a debt which was cleared within a few years . |