Example sentences of "few years [prep] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It broke up within a few years of Anselm 's death under the impact of forces which were too strong for it . |
| 2 | Japan 's Matsushita and Sony have each invested more than $5 billion over the past few years in America 's entertainment business , while Time and Warner have merged in the belief that big companies can best exploit a proliferating array of new media . |
| 3 | A few years after Coleman 's death it contained dried specimens under an accumulation of discoloured varnish , plus an incomplete horse skeleton , but there was no catalogue . |
| 4 | A few years after Lanfranc 's arrival , Eadmer described the English monks as living the lives of earls rather than monks , ‘ in all worldly glory , with gold and silver , with changes of fine clothes and delicate food , not to speak of the various kinds of musical instruments in which they delighted , and the horses , dogs and hawks with which they sometimes took exercise ’ . |
| 5 | And yet , a few years after Gromyko 's death , Marshka had proved himself to be an even greater survivor . |