Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly not as well as her books sold a few years ago . |
| 2 | They were , and the Pryces spent a few years in married bliss before the third Lady Pryce died in 1748 . |
| 3 | Indeed , I agree entirely with what the Leader of the Opposition said a few years ago , that ’ proportional representation is fundamentally counter-democratic in any case . ’ |
| 4 | He said that Microsoft would like to have the dominant position in the industry that IBM had a few years ago ‘ but I do n't think that will happen ’ . |
| 5 | This was typical ‘ normal science ’ — the very necessary filling-in operation which had to follow the categorically original discoveries made a few years earlier by the chief . |
| 6 | The survey — ‘ mapping the universe ’ — which Geller and Huchra began a few years ago is not yet complete but they have seen enough to conclude that ‘ the size of the largest structures we detect is limited only by the extent of the survey ’ . |
| 7 | That 's what the bosses of master brewer Guinness did a few years ago . |
| 8 | Alec also owns Mooney of Kerrville , Texas , and that is where the TBM 700 story started a few years ago . |
| 9 | Kevin tried a few years ago and failed this time … he aims to make history … and if he does we 'll be there … |
| 10 | Child benefit is the only benefit which is in fact available to women , even then the government tried a few years ago to change that and to make it paid to the man . |
| 11 | No one , to my knowledge , attempted to press charges of deception against the BBC for its reporters ' filming tactics in the series Black and White Britain screened a few years ago . |
| 12 | This is the text from More Poems , where it is simply entitled " DIFFUGERE NIVES , Horace : Odes iv 7 " : This poem might best be read alongside Gladstone 's version published a few years earlier , a conjunction of Victorian styles in which Housman 's poem comes off fairly well . |
| 13 | Dad died a few years before that — I 'm not sure when . |
| 14 | The logical standard took a few years to agree but , in the late 1980s , was finalised and ratified by the International Standards Organisation as ISO 9660 . |
| 15 | Emergency wanted A few years ago I wrote a little book called Discovering Backpacking . |
| 16 | He contrasted the " long rearguard action " that EC car makers fought a few years ago against tougher emission controls with the " very encouraging " willingness by industrial producers and users of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) to phase these substances out on a largely voluntary basis . |
| 17 | In 1752 Horace Walpole instructed his brother , Ned , to collect tea seed ; Gilbert White came a few years later to discuss difficulties over growing melons at Selborne ; and Charles Hatton selected two pots of passion flower , ‘ lusty and strong ’ in April 1760 . |
| 18 | One of the sharpest recessions came a few years after the Conservative government , sensitive to the enormous profits made in earlier years , had imposed ( in 1963 ) a variable levy rising to 45 per cent on the companies ' advertising revenue ( as distinct from their profits ) . |
| 19 | John returned a few years later , but he was now an old man and the moving spirit seems to have been his daughter Virginia , who carried out experiments in the breeding of silkworms at Little Gidding for the benefit of the American colony . |
| 20 | Maybe its the same one that Leeds bought a few years back and kicked out cos they were nt good enough ? ? : - ) |