Example sentences of "[prep] a few [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the flagship has been sunk , more quickly than the Mary Rose , but unlike that ship it will not come up again , even after a few hundred years . |
| 2 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 3 | I could have told you this at the height of his reputation , just as I could have predicted his downfall after a few short years in the limelight . |
| 4 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 5 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 6 | A Major or a Kinnock may work for decades in the hope of a few short years at the pinnacle of our political system . |
| 7 | Addison has encapsulated the result by observing accurately that ‘ for a few critical years after 1945 , the home front ran on without a war to sustain it , and Britain was reconstructed in the image of the war effort ’ . |
| 8 | He says that if it 's given regular pruning there 's no reason why it should n't live for a few hundred years more . |
| 9 | Neutron stars may produce more energy than the Sun soon after they form , when they are active as pulsars , but this phase of energetic activity only lasts for a few thousand years . |
| 10 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 11 | So many religions , such as the religion of Ancient Egypt , for instance , whi which made a great fetish of this , has a belief in a judgment after death , followed by eternal retribution er , heaven effectively for the just and er , damnation effectively for the unjust , and some religions like Catholicism stick in an intermediate state pur purgatory , where you can work , work off a sentence , as it were , for a few , for a few thousand years . |
| 12 | But officials insist that Poland 's national telephone company , PTTP , will be protected only for a few more years and will then be left to go bankrupt if it can not compete against privately owned network operators . |
| 13 | ‘ Dr Strangelove ’ was not to be imagined for a few more years but it was n t reassuring to learn that nuclear submarine crews were supplied with pistols with which to shoot any shipmate who showed signs of wanting to fire an unauthorized missile . |
| 14 | If we can do that and if we can hold the dam , as it were , for a few more years , that will give us time to assemble the ethical arguments against whaling , and to get them diffused further in the world . |
| 15 | Are we going to hide the ravages of time as cleverly as we can for a few more years , or gradually make the necessary adaptations in order to create a new image that is not a faded version of the old but corresponds in an attractive and lively way to the new stage in life which we have reached ? |
| 16 | Around this time , as it was evident that the trams in London would have to be kept going for a few more years , visible external truss rods and other strengthening devices began to appear on many of the cars . |
| 17 | If feeding and antibiotics continued to be administered Tony could be expected to live for a few more years . |
| 18 | The Steady State Theory floundered on for a few more years , being continually revised , but eventually its three proponents conceded defeat . |
| 19 | When I gave it away I believe I was still playing well enough to continue for a few more years , but I had had enough , and it was time to consider the family . |
| 20 | Every broken marriage , every wrecked career must have one , in some form or another , and doubtless career and marriage might have drifted aimlessly on together for a few more years if the sea had been clear of Carlas , but it would have ended some time or other , and possibly with a lot more pain than there was now . |
| 21 | The Syracusan tyranny lasted for a few more years ; Hiero was even able to install his son Deinomenes as ruler of a new city of Etna , built to house the population of Katane and Naxos , ousted some time in the 470s ( cp . |
| 22 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 23 | We have already quoted part of the letter to Rohde , written in December , which gives the best testimony to Nietzsche 's state of mind : " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years … |
| 24 | She was too young to be away from home ; he should have been sure of her company for a few more years yet . |
| 25 | AZT does give you a chance for a few more years . |
| 26 | In or after 1147 Andrew returned to England for a few troubled years as the first abbot of Wigmore , a daughter house of St Victor in Herefordshire . |
| 27 | Inside , the rooms are light and panelled with elegant pedimented overdoors , and it is sad to think that the full splendour of Bullen Reynes 's house was only enjoyed by his son and his family for a few short years ; the bulk of it burned down in 1704 . |
| 28 | Of course , the historical analogy is not a completely valid one , for history only concerns the interactions within a single species during a few thousand years , in connection with which geological and climatological changes have played only a minor role ( as in the extinction of Carthage and of the Viking settlements in Greenland ) . |
| 29 | Stones like these began to be highly valued in India , the earliest source of diamonds , about a few hundred years BC . |
| 30 | In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it . |