Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
2 | Such obtuseness would have been common enough a few years ago . |
3 | It is one sign of the rise of semi-literacy that the descendants of the nineteenth-century civic worthies who took pride in the libraries they opened genuinely can not see any problem in closing them down a hundred years later , or authorising the ruthless dispersal of their stocks built up during that period . |
4 | The whole school was closed down a few years ago . |
5 | I think I settled down a few years back . |
6 | The new methods of mass production , were unsuccessful and was closed down a few years later . |
7 | I think they closed it down a few years later . |
8 | Dollar interest rates cracked the price of gold down a dozen years ago when they were hoisted to 20 per cent . |
9 | The age that Flavia gave her was Constanza 's , perhaps a few years more . |
10 | The statue can not have stood long in the weather , and one would guess it one of the last set up before the Persians came , the girl perhaps a few years earlier . |
11 | Actually , Cole was n't proposing donations to aid agencies as the ‘ solution ’ to mass starvation any more than Stuart Weir and I were doing so a few years ago . |
12 | Only a hundred years ago , costmary could be found in almost any cottage garden , in fact in most gardens throughout Britain . |
13 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
14 | Normal tissue paper , like most paper , contains acid which encourages fading and decay , including the gradual yellowing of white fabrics , a process which may be seen after only a few years . |
15 | Society responds with oppression , which it justifies by again invoking myths , scriptures ( quoted or misquoted ) and proverbs , some ancient and some only a few years old , thrown up by the needs of everyday life . |
16 | In addition , he has pursued his own passion for the painted interior decoration of this particular kind and scale of East Anglian yeoman farmhouse — a type of house that , only a few years ago , was hardly considered worthy of notice , so complete was the obsession of historians with work by named architects . |
17 | Where tropical forest grew only a few years ago , a vast desert is now rapidly engulfing inland Brazil spreading at a rate of several miles a year . |
18 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
19 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
20 | A poll showed that Mr Da Silva won it , burying the myth that as an ex-factory worker with only a few years schooling he is unqualified for the presidency . |
21 | Hence the burgeoning popularity of the Bharatiya Janata Party : a fringe party of Hindu extremists only a few years ago , it looks as though it could be part of a government after the election . |
22 | Economists and politicians are already celebrating the disappearance of these huge external imbalances — even those who only a few years ago claimed that current-account deficits did not matter . |
23 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
24 | Sadly , the old bitches his mother lined up were only a few years younger than him . |
25 | At present , the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods . |
26 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
27 | Within only a few years the company was exporting its products to central Europe , Russia and the US . |
28 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
29 | Yet only a few years later , the Royal Commission of 1954–1957 recommended radical changes with a new policy of community integration . |
30 | Are these words to use about an ally you stood shoulder to shoulder with only a few years back ? ’ |