Example sentences of "[prep] the few years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 2 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 3 | However , as you know , you must be very , very careful with the few years that remain to you . ’ |
| 4 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 5 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 6 | Even in the few years since Volumes I and II of the Supplement were published , numerous words and meanings in the range A-N have emerged which are therefore not to be found in the largest Oxford Dictionary . |
| 7 | In the few years since they have been in existence , the colleges of higher education have had little or no guidance , from the DES or anywhere else , as to the directions they might follow . |
| 8 | In the few years that followed , Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing . |
| 9 | In the few years that followed , it is unlikely that you would get back as much as you paid in . |