Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the 1965 Immigration Act , Mirpuri and Bengali families would send their sons to England for a few months or a few years at a time . |
| 2 | In A.D. 324 Constantine moved his capital to Byzantium and a few years later the Empire was divided into two parts , eastern and western . |
| 3 | Polls show American voters more willing to pay taxes than a few years ago . |
| 4 | He said it demonstrated how much more acceptable Northern Ireland now was as a business venue than a few years ago . |
| 5 | And the encouraging thing was that they 're all things that a few years ago in the Green Party sort things out they 're all there . |
| 6 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 7 | I got quite good ones actually cos I got two children next to each other and a few years later I got them to do it again but I do n't know if I can find them all . |
| 8 | In practice , the vast majority of reported offences of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl of 16 involve young men of a similar age or a few years older , and the general trend is to administer a formal caution to such persons rather than to prosecute them . |
| 9 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 10 | I usually make my own curtains but a few years ago I decided to make use of a free making-up service offered by a large department store . |