Example sentences of "[num ord] few years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few years they were happy together . |
| 2 | In his first few years he did more to establish the Hellenism of Smirke and Wilkins as ‘ the modern style of architecture ’ in Scotland than anyone else . |
| 3 | Because HAI was in its infancy , in every job he filled during the first few years he had an American opposite number , sometimes with 30 years ' experience of the industry . |
| 4 | For the first few years I rested my chin on the concrete wall separating the spectators from the players and saw many wondrous things . |
| 5 | For the first few years I romped to cover up the new loneliness . |
| 6 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 7 | The twins were demanding — in the first few years she thought she would go mad from lack of sleep and overwork — but at least they touched her and hugged her and kissed her and loved her . |
| 8 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 9 | For the next few years they stay in these fresh waters but even at this stage in their lives , their wanderings do not cease . |
| 10 | Over the next few years we want to see a major reform which will help provide what the public wants and needs : a visible , local police presence . |
| 11 | I believe it is quite possible that within the next few years we might see European legislation which will not only follow that of the UK in prohibiting lead fishing weights but also outlaw the use of lead in cartridges . |
| 12 | Over the next few years we were to see the terminal in all its stages of construction on our various visits to Scapa Flow and we were to become very familiar with Flotta not only in the earlier days , but later when the terminal was operational and our crews began their real work of checking the large tankers . |
| 13 | I would hope over the next few years we actually do move towards increasing towards that but I think we will have some severe difficulties , particularly with the planning department where large numbers of members of the public do visit the area . |
| 14 | Over the next few years we are projecting very high rates of growth , not less than double and up to three times the rate of inflation . |
| 15 | Despite this somewhat unstable basis the Company did quite well until 1630 when trade was dislocated by a famine in Gujerat , and in the next few years its legal position was undermined because Charles I allowed the Courteen family — whose interests in the West Indies had suffered because he had given away their rights in certain islands inadvertently — to trade with India without any regard for the Company 's charter . |
| 16 | With the growth that seems likely over the next few years one can not help asking what the future holds . |
| 17 | This he did with such success that within the next few years his name became a byword throughout Spain . |
| 18 | Over the next few years his local reputation spread , and in 1953–54 he joined Sydney grade club Petersham , catching the overnight train to the match each Saturday and returning home that evening . |
| 19 | In the next few years there will be fewer young people and these tend to make up the majority of staff in many outlets , so caterers — and particularly the large chains — will come to rely more on automation in the near future . ’ |
| 20 | It is likely that in the next few years there will be pressure to bring into production the remaining hectares of delimited land , although economics and the overall strategy of the Champagne market will also play their part . |
| 21 | Over the next few years there will be changes in the structures of Lothian and Borders Police and Regional Council Departments which will affect various elements of the delivery of the road safety function . |
| 22 | La Plata , the administrative centre of Buenos Aires province , had undergone economic vicissitudes at the end of the century , but with the upturn in its fortunes in the next few years it acquired a station of striking originality , an overall shed flanked by a staggeringly ornate pentagonal building covered in statuary and surmounted by a dome . |
| 23 | While the Camphill Development Project will naturally take up time and energy and demand much sacrifice over the next few years it must not become our only goal . |
| 24 | ’ It is already possible to apply ( gene analysis ) methods for the early foetal diagnosis of these disorders ( haemophilia and other anaemias ) , and over the next few years it may even be possible to replace defective genes ’ , wrote the geneticist David Weatherall in an article on the new Institute for Molecular Medicine in Oxford . |
| 25 | Accreditation was not a concept that had gained currency in Britain at this time , and in developments over the next few years it was to receive a variety of interpretations in British further and higher education . |
| 26 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |
| 27 | During the next few years I developed new mathematical techniques to remove this and other technical conditions from the theorems that proved that singularities must occur . |
| 28 | Over the next few years you may find the following : |
| 29 | And they will go by what you want from it for the o , over the next few years you know ? |
| 30 | During the next few years he drew up a similar body of monastic observances for use in his cathedral church . |