Example sentences of "a [noun] a few years [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | One of those trees had blown over in a storm a few years later ; the other survived as a diseased and sterile relic . |
2 | He got me a ring a few years ago . |
3 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
4 | You , you did give once to a group a few years ago . |
5 | I recall going into such a shop a few years ago to replace my survival bag . |
6 | We had no Peters , no Colins , only one David and , though there had been a Kevin a few years back , we were now understaffed in that area too . |
7 | Well , I take as I find , and can only say that I was happy to do Toshack a favour a few years back when a friend , an international fixer with contacts in Portuguese football , rang to ask if anyone might be available to Sporting Lisbon . |
8 | ‘ Ah , ’ he said at the finish , ‘ there was a rumour a few years ago that some Russo had managed to get to the top of the mountain . ’ |
9 | He writes a letter a few years later when he remembers : |
10 | ‘ He wrote a novel about a waxworks a few years ago . |
11 | Once upon a time a few years ago it was realised that the costs of circuits from the Post Office to broadcast choral evensong ‘ live ’ easily outstripped the courtesy fees paid to the participants . |