Example sentences of "[verb] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think the political climate on that changed a few years ago , when there was the big influx of heroin onto the market … . |
| 2 | His work affects me the same way — which is why I bought that painting a few years ago . |
| 3 | Salmon , who was an intimate friend of Picasso 's at this time , described a few years later his restless state of mind : ‘ Picasso was unsettled . |
| 4 | All that vanished with the invention of the printing press a few years later , but many of the books in the Corviniana were made in Italy at that time . |
| 5 | Although the large Gothic window of the chapel was replaced by a smaller one , and bay windows were added a few years later , it is still , in Pugin 's own words , ‘ the only modern building that is complete in every part in the ancient style ’ . |
| 6 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 7 | Properties they say a few years ago are down by 25 to 30% , that with lower mortgage rates gives them a tremendous boost . |
| 8 | Willie 's story starts a few years before his first Open triumph , and bears out his theory that his golf destiny was ‘ written in the stars ’ . |
| 9 | One classic er case that only occurred a few years ago and it was way before bonfire night , but erm , people working from home to try and make a little bit of pin money , a young lady had taken on the task of putting sparklers into five into a little bag for a particular manufacturer . |
| 10 | Kevin tried a few years ago and failed this time … he aims to make history … and if he does we 'll be there … |
| 11 | Child benefit is the only benefit which is in fact available to women , even then the government tried a few years ago to change that and to make it paid to the man . |
| 12 | They all know that the Bill has been brought to the House in this form only because of the catastrophe of what happened on the Bills that were guillotined a few years ago — the poll tax Bills . |
| 13 | He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago . |
| 14 | For the Nineties , it 's safe to predict that the nostalgia boom has a few years left to run , that Neneh Cherry , Roland Gift and Terence Trent D'Arby will become as big as they want to be , and that Bobby Brown 's crafty commercialisation of rap , soul and a vast ego will give Wacko a run for his money quite soon . |
| 15 | He has a few years on me — maybe ten — and sometimes he treats me like the son he never had . |
| 16 | They have a very special significance , and how I wish I had known how to press flowers when I was given my first red roses by my husband , but unfortunately I learnt a few years too late ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 19 | And he had the article written a few years ago about the missing Tsarist treasures . |
| 20 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
| 21 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 22 | Mr Creme believes Christ has already come again — came a few years ago actually — and is now residing in the Asian community in London , waiting for a more receptive attitude from the press before He shows Himself on worldwide television , when ‘ He wo n't actually speak , but His thoughts , His ideas , His call to humanity , will take place silently , telepathically . ’ |
| 23 | In 1752 Horace Walpole instructed his brother , Ned , to collect tea seed ; Gilbert White came a few years later to discuss difficulties over growing melons at Selborne ; and Charles Hatton selected two pots of passion flower , ‘ lusty and strong ’ in April 1760 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | But she liked the money , and the new house , and the new dresses — and the six fields of apple trees and the big farm north of Stratford that came a few years later . |
| 26 | Circulation , which peaked at more than 100,000 at the height of Ulster 's violence , had fallen to around 20,000 after the rival Sunday Life , owned by Thomson Regional Newspapers , started publishing a few years ago . |
| 27 | Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing . |
| 28 | Frederick II himself had argued a few years earlier that ‘ useful hard-working people should be guarded as the apple of one 's eye , and in wartime recruits should be levied in one 's own country only when the bitterest necessity compels ’ . |
| 29 | Some make preliminary enquiries then wait a few years but many feel it is so desperately important to know where they came from and who they belonged to that they go ahead . |
| 30 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |