Example sentences of "[pers pn] a [det] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ You only have them a few years , after all , ’ his mother cried . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If you 're with a bank and you 've been with them a few years , they 'll give you all kinda loans . |
| 6 | ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’ |
| 7 | To him a few years ago : You are my finest invention . |
| 8 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
| 9 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 10 | They also did it a few years ago with their then hottest act , Alexander O'Neal . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 15 | mm , have you had it a few years ? |
| 16 | This happened to us a few years back . |