Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] a [det] year " in BNC.

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1 There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account .
2 As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’
3 Pupils can come to identify with the students — sometimes the age difference is not more than a few years — and ask how they can emulate them .
4 The theme for the ITV series ‘ Van Der Valk ’ , called Eye Level , which got to number one more than a few years ago , was from a production library disc .
5 Scriptwriter Tony Warren never expected his creation , played by William Roache , to last for more than a few years .
6 Posterity stretches ahead without limit whereas disc and tape manufacturers , when they are prepared to commit at all , are reluctant to do so for more than a few years .
7 If it 's more than a few years old .
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