Example sentences of "[art] few years [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But let's see what she 'll be a few years hence . |
| 2 | To him a few years ago : You are my finest invention . |
| 3 | Her view reflected a time when mustard was enjoying a vogue similar to that enjoyed by flavoured vinegars a few years ago . |
| 4 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 5 | A few years ago I wanted to invest in a new spindle moulder . |
| 6 | Until a few years ago most wood dyes tended to fade in strong sunlight , but now many of them contain transparent iron oxides , which do not fade and can be used on interior and exterior woodwork . |
| 7 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 8 | A few years ago , as part of an annual round-up of critical books for Encounter , I reviewed an interestingly speculative work on modern fiction by an American academic . |
| 9 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 10 | The CRL tackled this problem a few years ago , developing ice-lined refrigerators : tubes of water surrounding the fridge compartment freeze ; if the power fails , the tubes keep the vaccines cool until all the ice has melted . |
| 11 | I paid a Hackney second-hand dealer £100 a few years ago for seven black plastic bags of documents dating back to the seventeenth century — the contents of tin trunks removed from the basement of a firm of solicitors . |
| 12 | ‘ A few years ago few officials spoke about it , ’ says Professor Lutz Krauskopf , the president of the Swiss committee on special legislation on money laundering . |
| 13 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 14 | He continued to work until a few years ago and from then on passed much of his time in London . |
| 15 | While he may not be collecting as actively as he was a few years ago , his name still inspires sufficient awe in most art world people for them to request complete anonymity when discussing him . |
| 16 | Emergency wanted A few years ago I wrote a little book called Discovering Backpacking . |
| 17 | So there are some new facets to catering in the RAF today compared with even a few years ago . |
| 18 | The only difference between Tina Turner today and a few years ago is her material . |
| 19 | For instance , a few years ago I studied paul Simon 's music quite extensively . |
| 20 | Prefacing Huckleberry Finn ( first read ‘ a few years ago ’ ) in 1950 , Eliot recalled his own boyhood . |
| 21 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 22 | A few years ago you wrote about the merits of sarkandas reed as a waggler material . |
| 23 | He remembers driving up the road a few years ago and accosting a stranger who was dabbling in a stream with what looked like a frying-pan . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ A few years ago , many thoughtful men , in no way given to utopian ideas , had begun to hope that Western Europe would never again be the scene of the awful horrors of war . |
| 27 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ A few years ago I gave a lecture at Preston Polytechnic and afterwards nine black girls , some of them with toddlers , stayed behind and we began to talk . |