Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM will , of course , supply OS/2 with its machines , but its market share has fallen rapidly with the advent of low-cost clones , so the number of users out there may not be as high as might have been the case a few years ago . |
| 2 | The Economist a few years ago conceded that the new system had some merits , but carried with it some important disadvantages ; on the positive side The nomination process is certainly very costly , yet trying to engage the attention of a mass electorate scattered across a huge and diverse country is bound to be expensive . |
| 3 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 4 | I know you can , I have been ice skating on er the rink a few years now |
| 5 | ‘ The enterprise of the Leeds City management in securing Speirs would have staggered those responsible for the club a few years ago , ’ observed the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 6 | I am sure members will be aware speed speedway received financial assistance from the Council a few years ago when they ran into difficulties . |
| 7 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 8 | And the finding of the suit a few years ago was the start of the hunt that they now have every year , ’ she explained matter-of-factly as though it were the most usual thing in the world . |
| 9 | The BBC put on a programme about the event a few years ago , harping particularly on the fact that it had been hushed up until then . |
| 10 | In that advocacy , he was subsequently to acknowledge he had been unaware of the problems arising from the Cambridge Board 's maturing plans for such appointments and the issue of providing powers which were to become particularly difficult and threatening to the District a few years later . |
| 11 | Now the advice a few years er be from the s solicitor was not in quite the the th precisely these words but if somebody was leaving , I mean if the wife was leaving the husband , the instructions were basically Love , get your furniture out , hide it somewhere , and argue about who owns what afterwards . |
| 12 | He remembers driving up the road a few years ago and accosting a stranger who was dabbling in a stream with what looked like a frying-pan . |
| 13 | It 's much like the ‘ proper ’ animators flicking the acetates like one of those flick books that were all the rage a few years ago ( or the ‘ What the Butler Saw ’ machines at the end of the pier ) to see how the work has progressed . |
| 14 | Seems he bought a small-holding on the moor a few years back and set up these classes . |
| 15 | This represents an improvement over the situation a few years earlier , since in 1970 women earned only 63 per cent of men 's hourly rate , and only 55 per cent of men 's gross weekly pay . |
| 16 | says the Marquis ' ‘ They were not convinced , but the Japanese took up the idea a few years ago and they are now industry leaders . ’ |
| 17 | This sombre event , which was reported in the London Times , may have stimulated the construction a few years later of a strange mausoleum in Paisley . |
| 18 | Alford , a former councillor , broke away from the party a few years ago , and has stood as an independent Labour candidate in local elections since . |
| 19 | One of those trees had blown over in a storm a few years later ; the other survived as a diseased and sterile relic . |
| 20 | He got me a ring a few years ago . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | On the mantelshelf behind him there was a photograph of a pretty , smiling , dark-haired woman , a boy of about ten and a girl a few years younger . |
| 23 | You , you did give once to a group a few years ago . |
| 24 | I recall going into such a shop a few years ago to replace my survival bag . |
| 25 | At a parade a few years before the war , when the Crown Prince was a major rising thirty , the Kaiser had shown him up before all his men by calling out to the Brigadier , ‘ teach the boy how to ride ! ’ , and now their relationship was as distant and difficult as ever . |
| 26 | Well , I take as I find , and can only say that I was happy to do Toshack a favour a few years back when a friend , an international fixer with contacts in Portuguese football , rang to ask if anyone might be available to Sporting Lisbon . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah , ’ he said at the finish , ‘ there was a rumour a few years ago that some Russo had managed to get to the top of the mountain . ’ |
| 28 | He writes a letter a few years later when he remembers : |
| 29 | Once upon a time a few years ago it was realised that the costs of circuits from the Post Office to broadcast choral evensong ‘ live ’ easily outstripped the courtesy fees paid to the participants . |
| 30 | And there was an instance a few years ago I think where they were going somewhere in Glasgow and a toilet was put in |