Example sentences of "few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are now due to occur in 1991 , having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years . |
| 2 | It is to be regretted that many of the Government 's measures relating to its asylum policy introduced in the past few years , have been to discourage new arrivals . |
| 3 | However , in the first few years groups did not appear to consider fundraising a priority . |
| 4 | The signs are that the next few years will see some extensive soul-searching about art history ; several books have already appeared . |
| 5 | The explosive prices for Teddy Bears in the last few years indicate how a market can be created , in this case by a mix of merit and nostalgia . |
| 6 | Kelman 's work forms part of a flowering of talent which has come about in the urban Scotland of the last few years . |
| 7 | To him a few years ago : You are my finest invention . |
| 8 | After the patience of the last few years , he wrote , why this sudden impatience ? |
| 9 | Mr Clark said legislation ensuring re-inspection could come into force within the next few years and he warned that it could result in hotels being prosecuted if they contravened their Fire Certificates . |
| 10 | Her view reflected a time when mustard was enjoying a vogue similar to that enjoyed by flavoured vinegars a few years ago . |
| 11 | A few years back , I bought an old desk at an auction and , when I got it home , found that the drawers had not been emptied by its previous owner . |
| 12 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 13 | The local authority that owned the premises was ‘ privatizing ’ it , i.e. making a quick profit while there were still a fair few years on the lease . |
| 14 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 15 | Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it . |
| 16 | I 've had this shrub for a few years now but it has been a bit reluctant to bloom . |
| 17 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 18 | During the last few years there has been an increase in swinging and ground looping accidents and these must be analysed to see if there are new lessons to be learned . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
| 21 | Lazarus 's business ambitions soon elevated him from storeman to lumber merchant , thence to a partnership in the coal industry which became his sole business — L. Cohen and Son — after a few years , and hence to a high-profile dredging company which could boast that it had kept every one of the lifelines of the young nation — the St. Lawrence tributaries between Lake Ontario and Quebec — open . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Moreover , Dudek had taken his doctorate at Columbia , and Federico Garçia Lorca had studied there a few years before Leonard was born . |
| 24 | Did he know he would die a few years later ? |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to be away increasingly in the next few years . |
| 26 | While the quality of play , and competition , at the top end of the women 's game has increased superbly in the last few years , the drop off after the first half dozen or so , is still equally evident . |
| 27 | If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States . |
| 28 | A few years ago I wanted to invest in a new spindle moulder . |
| 29 | These numbers have increased considerably over the past few years , partly because income support is available to help cover the fees of residential and nursing home care , and money to pay for care at home is not easily available . |
| 30 | Age Concern expressed reservations in its response to the Griffiths Review of Community Care that contracts for certain services might prove unprofitable to private sector providers after a few years , by which time District Health Authorities would have divested themselves of the resources to provide similar services . |