Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 2 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 3 | er just one after thought , Dennis mentioned teamwork , now we we 've been together for a few years basically , but you might say , we work as a team , everyone gets on , everyone helps each other out . |
| 4 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 5 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 7 | So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses . |
| 8 | They stayed away for a few years , moving between the markets of the Sahel , exploiting differences in prices in different markets , until they had enough camels to go to Cairo . |
| 9 | Otherwise , Kovacevich was well wide of the mark and if he respects this work he might contemplate putting it away for a few years before reconsidering its interpretation . |
| 10 | Where , then , may we look for hopeful areas of peace , ways in which this new overwhelmingly destructive and readily deployable force may be contained , not just for a few years , but in our minuscule timespan , for ever ? |
| 11 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 12 | Thus in a few years a mere convenience for keyboard players had developed into a widely adopted performing practice which revolutionized musical textures and was to remain in use for two centuries . |
| 13 | It was not until a few years later that I think his talent really started to manifest itself because you could n't quite think where it was going . |
| 14 | I mean you can look back like , just over a few years , |
| 15 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
| 16 | to consult the landed and trading interest of the nation , by lessening its incumbrances and public debts , and putting them in a method of being paid off in a few years ; which could not have been done , unless a way had been found to make the Annuities for long terms redeemable ; which had been happily effected by the South-Sea Scheme , without a breach of parliamentary faith . |
| 17 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 18 | He found it incredibly rewarding and had a couple of momentous experiences of such excitement that he tried to recreate the excitement instead of going back to what caused it ( the old Orgasmic-Goal orientation — see Dr Ruth , pages 12 to 461 ) , so he gave up for a few years . |
| 19 | Temporarily for a few years trains could use that Thameslink line . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 22 | It broke up within a few years of Anselm 's death under the impact of forces which were too strong for it . |
| 23 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 24 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 25 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 26 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 27 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 28 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 29 | I 'm f used to that now after a few years . |
| 30 | Production of the Japanese industry 's two principal profit earners — the F-15J fighter and the P-3C anti-submarine aircraft , both built under licence from the United States — will peter out in a few years ' time . |