Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a few years " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I feel staggered at being chosen as a winner , and it has made me really thrilled , even though I am a few years older than the others , ’ he said . |
2 | ‘ If I was a few years younger , I 'd be a hooker , ’ said Constance , stretching . |
3 | ‘ Not for a measly fifty , ’ William laughs , as he and Andy pull together and draw together , tottering on the seat while Andy throws the emptied bottle to someone in the crowd and is handed another full magnum by his partner in The Gadget Shop , a fellow ex-ad-man who 's a few years older than Andy . |
4 | She was a few years older , mature , a mother . |
5 | ‘ She has very little regard for other people 's property and other people 's lives now , which was n't how she was a few years ago . |
6 | ‘ We adopted her when she was a few years old but we had a difference of opinion and she left home , ’ said Mr Harrison , a policeman . |
7 | Although financial director Michael Langley said that the product is approaching the end of its life , he believes ‘ there are a few years in it yet ’ , and expects 1993 sales levels to be maintained at roughly the same as 1992s . |
8 | No , they 're a few years old them are . |
9 | The returns from farming were generally poor and land prices were below what they were a few years ago . |
10 | Despite the ‘ Britain 's ugliest group ’ tag that 's hung around their neck since the start , the Inspirals are a better band to look at than they were a few years back . |
11 | Will my right hon. Friend reflect on the fact that when he attends those international meetings and many others in the EC he will discover that Britain 's standing , authority and reputation are vastly higher than they were a few years ago ? |
12 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
13 | He also quipped that , since NT stands for New Technology , ‘ we will will have to change that when it 's a few years old . ’ |
14 | Erm it 's a few years old but it 's hardly had any use . |
15 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
16 | I mean it is a few years back but I can remember not long ago it was eighteen P |
17 | ( If her son enters when he is a few years older , he will surely be unique in being able to say he has been taking part since before he was born . ) |
18 | Now 43 , he 's a few years older than Super Mario who made his screen debut in a 1980 arcade game . |
19 | He 's a few years older than I am and was already one of the most respected members of the Weighing Room when we became friends . |
20 | His Test debut had come against India in 1978–9 aged only twenty , but , with so many other top bowlers in competition , it was a few years before his place was secure . |
21 | The political currency that underpinned the spread of UDCs is no longer so clearly in the government 's control as it was a few years ago . |
22 | ‘ It 's like it was a few years ago , when no one bothered too much about how you looked , and you did n't get any edginess or aggression . |
23 | It is a great deal more professional than it was a few years ago comparable with the standards of other types of consultancies and partnership firms , and is attracting an altogether higher quality of person than was previously the case . |
24 | With the soft detergents now in use , this trouble is not so bad as it was a few years ago , but appreciable quantities still get into some rivers , even though the bulk is removed in sewage-purification treatment . |
25 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |
26 | It was a few years back . |
27 | While he may not be collecting as actively as he was a few years ago , his name still inspires sufficient awe in most art world people for them to request complete anonymity when discussing him . |
28 | I found myself liking Henniker — he was a few years older than I am , and had served in the war as an AA gunner . |
29 | he 's better than he was a few years ago and |