Example sentences of "[verb] in [art] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the books mentioned above , its specific content will be superseded in a few years ; but in meantime the book may be able to rescue some future Nobel laureates from becoming otherwise lost in cyberspace . |
| 2 | It was nothing like the transformation she would undergo in a few years time but it signalled the slow resurrection of her inner spirit . |
| 3 | But I read in an article this morning ( 'Students set to pay full fees ' , 29 September ) that if I were applying in a few years ' time , I would have to ask my parents to pay the full cost of my tuition . |
| 4 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 5 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
| 6 | The book was a success : 500,000 copies were sold in a few years , and it was translated into all the major European languages . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When the author of The Three Midshipmen reflected that his three heroes , supposed to be his former schoolfellows at ‘ dear old Eagle House ’ , had in a few years ‘ crossed swords with real red-capped or turbaned Mohammedans , fought with true Greek romantic pirates , hunted down slavers , and explored African rivers with voracious sharks watching their mouths , hungry crocodiles basking in their slimy shallows , and veritable negroes inhabiting their banks ’ , this rhodomontade , appealing to the eager youth of the mid-Victorian period , was entirely justified . |