Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | An investigation by the Building Research Establishment a few years ago identified over a thousand different kinds of faults in new homes under construction . |
| 2 | Sheldon Glashow writing his thesis at Harvard University a few years later , and Abdus Salam and John Ward independently in Imperial College , London , took this similarity seriously . |
| 3 | The problems faced by Britain 's loudspeaker industry a few years ago , when political upheavals in Zaire disrupted cobalt supplies , highlight the crucial nature of the strategic metals . |
| 4 | Jan Turner says that he helped organise an evererst marathon a few years ago and one sad thing about that was the local runners could not afford the right equipment or did n't have the money to tarin … so he 's here to help them |
| 5 | The Strozzi-Sacrati collection achieved celebrity status a few years ago when a forged will was discovered in a bureau in the palace , placed there by an antique dealer sporting a false moustache who had gained entry on the pretext of checking items in the collection . |
| 6 | He was actually in on the design and setting up of this hospital when Ocean Empress was still in the commissioning stage a few years back . |
| 7 | Bill joined the BBC as a radio engineer 's assistant in 1932 and went to the fledgling Television service a few years later . |
| 8 | Mr Dixon , friend of Mrs Murphy and conductor , in his spare time , of the amateur orchestra , had accidentally launched Hank on his writing career a few years earlier by encouraging him to enter an essay competition sponsored by a service club . |
| 9 | The 75 Ross employees in Austin , Texas will transfer to Fujitsu when the deal is completed — it should go through next month if Uncle Sam does not put up the kind of objections that thwarted Fujitsu 's desire to buy Fairchild Semiconductor Corp a few years back . |
| 10 | The 75 Ross employees in Austin , Texas will transfer to Fujitsu when the deal is completed — it should go through next month if Uncle Sam does not put up the kind of objections that thwarted Fujitsu 's desire to buy Fairchild Semiconductor Corp a few years back . |
| 11 | I was in the air force a few years later . ’ |
| 12 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
| 13 | The stables of the castle had been bought from the Sanvitale family a few years before by a family from Milan ( but of Fontanellato origin ) called the Gandini . |
| 14 | When the recession and falling prices hit the oil industry a few years later Caltex was able to ‘ shake out ’ the workforce with ease . |
| 15 | She argued that if women were paid the same as men " it would result in many women being dismissed from many trades " , and also accepted without demur , when giving evidence to the Fair Wages Committee a few years later , the proposition that women were satisfied with less money because they were earning " pin money " if married , and " pocket money " if not.38 With such pessimism about equal pay entrenched in the mind of their organizers , with such low evaluation being set on their work , one might argue that it would have been surprising if a militant women 's union could really be organized in the prevailing atmosphere . |
| 16 | When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams . |
| 17 | A newspaper report that Lord Glenconner had spent over £500,000 on entertaining the rich and famous at his 60th birthday party a few years ago , must have made his hard-working forebears turn in their graves . |
| 18 | The media commentator Michael Leapman , writing in the Independent on Sunday , observed that ‘ she has not usually done well in other roles … her Panorama programme on TV violence a few years ago was not judged a critical success . ’ |
| 19 | Submerged plants rarely attract attention except when they are a nuisance as in the rotting infestation of sea lettuce a few years ago that produced enough hydrogen sulphide gas to discolour housepaint and tarnish silverware in the unfortunate town of Deale , in Maryland . |
| 20 | Trainer Ian Duncan , whose stable is on the shores of Lough Neagh , was also scoring his first win in this historic race although he had gone close when Camlin River was beaten by Phillipinetown Lad a few years ago . |
| 21 | Even John Major , who is a friend of Wigley 's , turned up at a Plaid party a few years ago . |