Example sentences of "a few years [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 3 | An early hostility to capitalist oppression and a refusal to contemplate co-operation with social democratic reformers was transformed in the space of a few years into a wide-ranging crusade against fascism in which geniune sympathisers of whatever creed were welcome participants . |
| 4 | The branch line had survived for a few years as a single line until its final demise . |
| 5 | Support for my ailing home town club extends a few years before the glorious 1964 10–0 victory over Darlington , part of Belle Vue folklore . |
| 6 | No-one ever spends much time thinking about the longest holiday of their lifetime — retirement — until a few years before the big day actually arrives . |
| 7 | Decent people moved out if they could , and the born-squalid moved in : the swamp of the slums spread a few years behind the speculative builder everywhere . |
| 8 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 9 | Hugh began as a chargehand in the Teasing Department , where he returned to become foreman after a few years in the Dyed Wool Blending Department . |
| 10 | It opens a few years after the final English conquest of Wales in 1282/3 ; it closes with the outbreak of the last great Welsh revolt . |
| 11 | One of the sharpest recessions came a few years after the Conservative government , sensitive to the enormous profits made in earlier years , had imposed ( in 1963 ) a variable levy rising to 45 per cent on the companies ' advertising revenue ( as distinct from their profits ) . |