Example sentences of "[pron] a few year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Kevin sponsored a friend of mine a few years ago and took over his wife . |
| 2 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
| 3 | On the other hand , there are certainly some Conservatives I could not bring myself to vote for — such as Mr Jack Aspinwall in my neighbouring seat of Wansdyke , who a few years ago was one of an all-party group of MPs who spoke far too warmly about the Ceausescu regime on a visit to Romania , and who lists as his only publication Kindly Sit Down ! , a collection of ‘ after-dinner stories from both Houses of Parliament ’ . |
| 4 | One might make the assumption that these are the same son of people who a few years earlier had enjoyed and had been moved by the pageantry of George V 's Jubilee and by George VI 's Coronation . |
| 5 | Joint third prize was won by London-based Allies and Morrison , two Edinburgh University architecture graduates who a few years earlier won the Edinburgh Mound Competition : one short-listed design from Midlothian was that by Duffy and Batt which stood the Glasgow salmon on its tail . |
| 6 | You might find architects who a few years ago were working on major projects , but are now making a living from loft extensions . ’ |
| 7 | Harry Kroto is a chemist at the University , who a few years ago , in collaboration with a colleague and a student , discovered something about interstellar space that has forced scientists to reconsider their views . |
| 8 | The competitive nature of public examinations was brutally brought home to me a few years ago when I was first impressed by the instructional potential of programmed learning . |
| 9 | ‘ You only have them a few years , after all , ’ his mother cried . |
| 10 | PAGE 3 girls apparently are feeling the chill and quite unable to earn the sort of mega money available to them a few years ago . |
| 11 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |
| 12 | If you 're with a bank and you 've been with them a few years , they 'll give you all kinda loans . |
| 13 | ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’ |
| 14 | Did n't we give him one a few years ago ? ’ |
| 15 | It 's worth shopping around for one a few years old , after the initial sharp depreciation ( which can be as much as 70% over three years ) has levelled . |
| 16 | To him a few years ago : You are my finest invention . |
| 17 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
| 18 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 19 | They also did it a few years ago with their then hottest act , Alexander O'Neal . |
| 20 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 21 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 22 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 23 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 24 | mm , have you had it a few years ? |
| 25 | I fell victim to the thought-rather-than-action syndrome myself a few years ago and gave up a demonstrably worthwhile job as a doctor in order to write a novel called A Paper Mask . |
| 26 | Victoria , aged 12 , made a beeline for the reconstituted orange juice and sandwiches prepared by a pair of stout volunteer ladies who arrived from Russia themselves a few years back , and two-year-old Oleg was soon roaring about wildly on a plastic fire-engine in the playroom . |
| 27 | This happened to us a few years back . |