Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] few year " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd will close parts of three ageing plants in the Tokyo area due to restructuring : plants in eastern Tokyo , Hachioji and Takasaki , both in northwestern Tokyo , will be partly closed within a few years , and construction of a new plant in Shimizu , west of Tokyo , due to open in 1995 , has been postponed , too . |
| 32 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 33 | The book was a success : 500,000 copies were sold in a few years , and it was translated into all the major European languages . |
| 34 | The fact is that diesel engines are produced in huge volume compared with a few years ago , reducing costs considerably , while petrol engines have grown ever more complex . |
| 35 | I 'm amazingly affluent compared with a few years ago , especially when I was on the dole for three years . |
| 36 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 37 | When told by them that the sales of budgerigar seed were disastrous and the market might easily disappear within a few years , Mrs Franklin came back with what you may think was a simple answer — but it was profound in terms of changing British public opinion — she said , " Breed your own consumers . " |
| 38 | And though the objects of our gaze have been varied , the experience has been a unified one , for they were the result of one artistic mood , erected within a few years almost 2,500 years ago . |
| 39 | In spite of an inauspicious beginning , Laura and Bernard succeeded within a few years in developing an absorbing private life in their adopted country . |
| 40 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 41 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 42 | Yes , this is what big shops , particularly in America , have now been doing for a few years , in that the till that takes your order as it were is also a computer terminal on line to large computers somewhere else , and every time your tin of baked bins is checked out by the girl on the till , it is adjusting the stocks on its large computer and saying , ‘ Hey , we 're going to run out of baked beans at approximately ten o'clock tomorrow morning . |
| 43 | In the early fifties after the war the Home Guard was reformed for a few years and some of us , having been demobbed from the forces rejoined , but somehow the spirit of the " Dads ' Army " had gone and one felt the enthusiasm was not there . |
| 44 | Wooderson continued running for a few years , winning the European 5,000 metres and stretching his span of achievement from world record breaker at half-mile to national cross-country champion over nine miles in 1949 . |
| 45 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 46 | I think she felt that nothing much would happen for a few years . |
| 47 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 48 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 49 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 50 | Conceivably the entire lake could die within a few years . |
| 51 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
| 52 | It 's very easy for young people to come into politics , full of enthusiasm and full up of get up get up and go and many of them get up and go after a few years . |
| 53 | The effervescent executive is likely to be gone in a few years , many of the employees will be gone , and the owners may be different as well . |
| 54 | The latter part of the decade saw St Owens Mill start up , followed within a few years by the Island Street and Victoria Street Mills , Luker also involved with the latter . |
| 55 | However , if excavations do not take place the cemetery and its treasures are likely to be destroyed by ploughing within a few years . |
| 56 | and in one of the rooms he used to have these girlie pin-ups of the dame , these portraits of all these women he used to fancy in a few years time . |
| 57 | It is true that the quality of most waters runs in cycles ; a few years of mediocre fish followed by a few years of quality fish . |
| 58 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |
| 59 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 60 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |