Example sentences of "[subord] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The interior , although fairly basic in its design , is roomy and much better screwed together than a few years ago . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Scriptwriter Tony Warren never expected his creation , played by William Roache , to last for more than a few years . |
| 7 | He said it demonstrated how much more acceptable Northern Ireland now was as a business venue than a few years ago . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But cars , lorries and tractors are more effective so are used more than a few years ago . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Its a reunion of two men who last teamed up at Chelsea more than a few years ago . |
| 13 | Polls show American voters more willing to pay taxes than a few years ago . |
| 14 | If it 's more than a few years old . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | All this means that building the temporal city is not simply a stage of ‘ humanisation ’ or ‘ pre-evangelisation ’ as was held up until a few years ago . |
| 17 | This was a working farm up until a few years ago and , the country atmosphere and customs have been preserved . |
| 18 | For people from a closed world , I thought dimly , they 're well-informed — if a few years out of date . |
| 19 | Was , because a few years ago the hotel burned down and has gone forever . |
| 20 | At many industrial sites , for example , workmen routinely carry portable radios , whereas a few years ago , only security guards had them . |
| 21 | The Japanese are number one in terms of imports in the US ceramics market , whereas a few years ago Wedgwood was clearly number one . |
| 22 | Whereas a few years ago a mainframe computer would have been essential to perform corpus processing , a desktop computer now suffices . |
| 23 | Indonesia has large industries , recently developed in the country , and are exporting large quantities to saw mills , whereas a few years ago they were exporting to lots , they are now exporting saw wood and ply wood . |
| 24 | One must not overlook the ‘ crisis of 1858 ‘ , when scurrilous anonymous letters appeared in the London Times complaining about the sewage in Pau , and the high price of lodgings , while a few years later another medical man , Dr Madden , publicly attacked the climate as pernicious for pulmonary cases . |
| 25 | However , complete accuracy is not important , as a few years either way make little difference to its value or collectability ; placing it in the right quarter of the appropriate century will nearly always suffice . |
| 26 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |
| 27 | It would have bothered me though a few years ago . |