Example sentences of "it be [adv] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just a few years since the club — whose anthem was : ‘ We are Millwall . |
| 2 | It is only a few years ago that we were being warned about the arrival of another ice age , for heavens ' sake ! |
| 3 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 4 | It was only a few years since Schiaparelli had been a living pan-cultural matrix , a cosmopolitan crossroads of the solar system , where all the client races of Capella could co-exist in noisy harmony , or pass through , haggling , to the caravanserais of the south . |
| 5 | It was only a few years ago that cheques and cash were the only means of payment available . |