Example sentences of "[coord] a few years " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |
| 5 | The only difference between Tina Turner today and a few years ago is her material . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Calcium ions turn on the zygote at fertilisation , and a few years back were named the ‘ final common pathway ’ in cell death . |
| 9 | And a few years after that his sticky career came to an end when he and a friend called Gentle ( who was anything but ) murdered a woman called Josephine Chipperfield at her home in Easterhouse and wounded several of her family . |
| 10 | In 1951 , for example , the Boards had been asked by the Minister to cut their spending on rural electrification , and most did so ; the South Western Board , by contrast , pressed on and a few years later were praised by the same Minister for pursuing this uneconomic development . |
| 11 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 12 | Purcell declared that in his first set of trio sonatas he had ‘ faithfully endeavour 'd a just imitation of the most fam 'd Italian Masters ’ , and a few years later a French writer , Le Cerf de La Viéville , complained bitterly of ‘ cette fureur de composer des sonates á la manière italienne ’ . |
| 13 | Whether they were poor because they were lame , or lame because they were poor , was perhaps a matter for sociologists , and a few years later , when their dwellings were swept away and replaced by council flats with rents much higher than they could afford , it must be assumed that they disappeared from the face of the earth . |
| 14 | Bristol was poised here on a cusp between two styles , and a few years later ( 1754–55 ) in the sadly lost Assembly Rooms on Prince Street , Thomas was able to press his Rococo leanings even further . |
| 15 | In A.D. 324 Constantine moved his capital to Byzantium and a few years later the Empire was divided into two parts , eastern and western . |
| 16 | The sporting world is full of fairy tales … but if the name of Samantha Raeisi ever reaches the headlines its going to be quite a story … she 's from Swindon … she 's a mum … she 's a model … and a few years ago she was given just a few weeks to live … |
| 17 | I got quite good ones actually cos I got two children next to each other and a few years later I got them to do it again but I do n't know if I can find them all . |
| 18 | The V8 was put on ice when Lotus went through one of its regular periods of financial cramp in 1981 — but a few years later its key features were sold to GM in the shape of the LT5 engine for the Corvette ZR1 . |
| 19 | At the time he said never again , but a few years have gone by and he has a different perception . |
| 20 | But a few years later , in 1970 the Hawker Siddeley management decided to shift the production of the robots to Hawker Siddeley 's factory in Lostock , Lancashire . |
| 21 | I usually make my own curtains but a few years ago I decided to make use of a free making-up service offered by a large department store . |
| 22 | But a few years later he was up and ready to go to Ulster . |
| 23 | Haines assured me that everything at his end would remain secret , but a few years later I was both surprised and vexed to find that he had retailed the story in his memoirs without any indication of his pledge of confidentiality . |
| 24 | Somewhere there would be a tutor waiting to see him — some easy-going , amiable man , not old , but a few years older than himself , with whom he could drink sherry on slightly deferential terms , and to whom he could apply for permission to hold parties , keep a car , and ride to hounds . |
| 25 | But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short . |
| 26 | Akroyd Stuart was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1901 , but a few years previously he had emigrated to Australia , where he involved himself in the design and manufacture of the Akroyd patent down-draught gas producer . |
| 27 | New agers are a little vague about how the Age of Aquarius actually happened , but a few years ago , at the end of the selfish age of Pisces , there was , according to Margo , ’ a lot of planetary alignment ’ . |
| 28 | But a few years now . |
| 29 | But a few years ago , there 's no way Ray and his leggy friends would have been flatmates . |
| 30 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |