Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lay brother was quiet , contenting himself with the dry comment that he had done enough penance to wipe a thousand years of purgatory from the debt his soul owed God . |
| 2 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 3 | Betty and George had both worked and were able to enjoy a few years of their retirement together before he had a major stroke . |
| 4 | Probably the priestesses systematically brought the peak sanctuaries and other rural shrines under their control , just as Solomon was to do a thousand years afterwards , building an urban temple and then extending his power over the high places . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe we should breed men an inch high so as to live a million years . ’ |
| 6 | We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd like to live a hundred years with the ones I 've got now , ’ he said . |
| 8 | to lie a thousand years |
| 9 | Your family would n't hold you back , and you have a professional qualification that 's highly in demand wherever you go , if you wanted to stay a few years and work . |
| 10 | We have to think a hundred years ahead , not just for the next year or two . |
| 11 | Thus Lizzie F. was able to take a few years out of work to nurse her mother , an auctioneer 's widow , before returning to work after her mother 's death . |
| 12 | There is a pattern in which women are likely to leave the labour market at the birth of their first child , and to return a few years later , typically when the last child has entered school . |
| 13 | After all , now that women in particular live longer , middle age might be assumed to begin a few years later too . |