Example sentences of "[adv] after a [adj] years " in BNC.

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1 New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers .
2 Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin .
3 I 'm f used to that now after a few years .
4 Even after a thousand years or more , evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches .
5 Work ended abruptly after a few years — the builders did n't even bother to take their ladder away .
6 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 .
7 That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week .
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