Example sentences of "[noun] a few years [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She married a chap called Parkes a few years back but he went off and left her . |
| 2 | When I was in college in the States a few years back , we read about the pre-feminist lives of the middle-class young women in the 50s and early 60s . |
| 3 | It did this in Tuscany a few years back , when Chianti was in the doldrums . |
| 4 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 5 | ‘ Linfield were drawn against a better team than the one we defeated — and I know from playing in Cyprus with Shamrock Rovers a few years back that Bangor were up against it , too . |
| 6 | A painting by Brueghel the elder was lifted from the Courtauld a few years back . |
| 7 | The first here were from an assart only cut from the woods a few years back , it was a godsend indeed to them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | This show is a kind of extension of club events I did in LA a few years back which used computer graphics , big projections , dance music and crowds . |
| 11 | In the very next group I chanced upon that guy , you know the one , he used to read the weather on TVS a few years back , grey hair , quite tall , you know , John something . |
| 12 | He seems to like getting rid of the crowd pleasers , look at his history Cantona last year , Vinny a few years back , John Sheridan before that and now Batty . |
| 13 | I know he has done some bar work , ( hardly surprising for a pisshead like Harvey ) I remember seeing him in the Three Cups at Stamford Bridge a few years back . |
| 14 | Then yeah well then things a few years back we 'd got archway , you see , and we used to tie the bullocks in the archway . |
| 15 | We had no Peters , no Colins , only one David and , though there had been a Kevin a few years back , we were now understaffed in that area too . |
| 16 | Ever since Bob Haboldt opened his Paris gallery on the faubourg Saint Honoré a few years back , things have been relatively quiet at his New York offices . |
| 17 | Nahh … what I 'd really like to do is come back as the guy who shot Reagan a few years back , only I would n't miss ! |
| 18 | Television 's ‘ Hammer ’ found himself in the slammer when he tried smuggling cocaine into Britain a few years back . |
| 19 | Well , I take as I find , and can only say that I was happy to do Toshack a favour a few years back when a friend , an international fixer with contacts in Portuguese football , rang to ask if anyone might be available to Sporting Lisbon . |
| 20 | Seems he bought a small-holding on the moor a few years back and set up these classes . |
| 21 | ‘ I believe the Breadalbane men were up in arms against their commanders down at Glasgow a few years back . |
| 22 | In Sri Lanka a few years back , shortly before the elections , he wandered through the frightened crowds at political rallies , despite warnings that danger was imminent . |
| 23 | Akai tried a similar idea a few years back with their U4 phrase trainer , but that was , surprisingly , a flop . |
| 24 | These devices hit the headlines a few years back when two cars in the United States collided at a closing speed of some 70 miles per hour . |
| 25 | But he 's still mainly known either for having had Grace in his face a few years back , or as the third meatboy in line after Stallone and Scharzenegger ; one of that strange Eighties breed of actors who can manage all kinds of complicated weapons , but have trouble with lines of dialogue longer than ten words . |
| 26 | Geoff , an old fashioned sort of polliss , retired on health grounds a few years back and we still have n't bought him a pint . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | FORMER Darlington mayor Jimmy Whelan , expelled from the Labour Party a few years back for alleged municipal disloyalty , is strolling the town with a ‘ Vote Alan Milburn ’ badge in his lapel . |