Example sentences of "[conj] a few year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 2 | In practice , the vast majority of reported offences of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl of 16 involve young men of a similar age or a few years older , and the general trend is to administer a formal caution to such persons rather than to prosecute them . |
| 3 | Although a few years since Sunday Caddies were mentioned , they were still controversial , and in 1925 the Harpsden Parish Church of St Margaret sought to ban them under 14 years of age , so as to improve the chances of their attending Sunday School and Church . |
| 4 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 5 | It is not surprising that a few years later , in 1911 , Grahame was to introduce ‘ Mouse ’ to his beloved Cornwall — and especially Fowey — before the boy began school . |
| 6 | Vincent said that a few years ago watch batteries had to be renewed every year . |
| 7 | In our July 18 issue we published an article about Olympic silver medallist , Linford Christie , which suggested that a few years ago he was a violent troublemaker who was listed by the police as ‘ dangerous ’ . |
| 8 | It seems that a few years ago Mrs Brissett 's daughter 's husband left her and she had trouble finding a job and had no money … and Harriet helped her find a job somewhere . |
| 9 | But I 've found that a few years away from something can make you realise just how much you want it — need it . ’ |
| 10 | I have , in my capacity as Senior Anatomical Pathology Technician , been called upon to collect and look at bones discovered in various places , i.e. sealed behind walls , found in shallow graves , fields , etc. and so it was that a few years ago I became very interested in some questions of osteology . |
| 11 | And the encouraging thing was that they 're all things that a few years ago in the Green Party sort things out they 're all there . |
| 12 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 13 | Pupils can come to identify with the students — sometimes the age difference is not more than a few years — and ask how they can emulate them . |
| 14 | The interior , although fairly basic in its design , is roomy and much better screwed together than a few years ago . |
| 15 | The theme for the ITV series ‘ Van Der Valk ’ , called Eye Level , which got to number one more than a few years ago , was from a production library disc . |
| 16 | Scriptwriter Tony Warren never expected his creation , played by William Roache , to last for more than a few years . |
| 17 | He said it demonstrated how much more acceptable Northern Ireland now was as a business venue than a few years ago . |
| 18 | There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account . |
| 19 | It seems as if I have been here a lot longer than a few years , and I do not think that I could ever fit into an institutional regime again . |
| 20 | But cars , lorries and tractors are more effective so are used more than a few years ago . |
| 21 | Posterity stretches ahead without limit whereas disc and tape manufacturers , when they are prepared to commit at all , are reluctant to do so for more than a few years . |
| 22 | Its a reunion of two men who last teamed up at Chelsea more than a few years ago . |
| 23 | Polls show American voters more willing to pay taxes than a few years ago . |
| 24 | If it 's more than a few years old . |
| 25 | So if we 're talking about something talking about something taking a light year to reach us in terms of light , any possibility of human contact we 're talking about millions of years , probably , rather than a few years . |
| 26 | It had a marked effect on those who read his poetry , and a few years later Leonard was to find himself tutored by one of Pound 's most sympathetic admirers and directed to the understanding of the American 's verse , somewhat to Leonard 's concern , as we shall see . |
| 27 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |
| 28 | The only difference between Tina Turner today and a few years ago is her material . |
| 29 | And a few years later , when Edwin Hubble found that nearly all other galaxies are flying away from our own , he correctly reasoned that this did not mean we were at the centre of the Universe . |
| 30 | ‘ Modernizing has , however , recently spoiled many of these buildings , and a few years more will probably see them pared and plaistered into all the monotony of the erections of the present day . ’ |