Example sentences of "[art] few years [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tace , describing the orchid in his novel , had also told where it was to be found , and within a few years every tuber and plant of leuchorchis albida had been stripped from the moor . |
| 2 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 3 | Only a few years a go the coal board was proud of the work of the pit deputy . |
| 4 | After a few years a department may be left with serious gaps in its library and a load of superannuated computing equipment . |
| 5 | Within a few years the organisation was divided by decision of Annual Conference into seven districts , each covering between two and seven branches and each electing one representative to the Executive , except London , which was given two . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Within only a few years the company was exporting its products to central Europe , Russia and the US . |
| 8 | But , as Action on Smoking and Health predicted that within a few years the majority of companies will have smoking policies , Roger Stubbs , deputy managing director of MORI , warned a confrontation is looming between ‘ green consumers ’ and ‘ smoking civil libertarians ’ who insist aggressively on their right to smoke in public places or at work . |
| 9 | In the space of a few years the word ‘ hooligan ’ had outstripped its humble local origins and its specific reference to London gang life ( it had also begun to lose its capital ‘ H ’ ) and had come to be understood and feared as a much more general affliction among the nation 's youth . |
| 10 | After a few years the axiom had taken upon itself the shape of practical reality . |
| 11 | Finishing only , and er then after a few years the manufacturing side of the industry adopted the cost of living different from ours but they adopted a cost of living bonus in in a degree rather different from our . |
| 12 | For a few years the child population remained at pre-war size and existing facilities could match demand . |
| 13 | In a few years the number of BSE infected cattle is expected to drastically fall . |
| 14 | Bad today , the situation will get worse when in a few years the number of potential recruits begins to decline . |
| 15 | Each centre aims to build up in a few years the basis for energy conservation throughout industry , transport and construction — an ambitious target , which Chandler feels is achievable . |
| 16 | It is clear that the bunched replacement of fixed capital requires a considerable growth in the rate of the production of fixed assets , but after a few years the need for such replacement will decline rapidly . |
| 17 | Every few years the gap is filled with a useful directory , but handy as they are such titles rarely survive for more than three editions : witness the demise of the Antique Collectors ' Club 's sadly missed Guide to Specialist Nurseries . |
| 18 | Every few years the industry begins a campaign , backed in medical journals , for release from its shackles . |