Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] a few years " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Kevin sponsored a friend of mine a few years ago and took over his wife . |
2 | He saw them at their home , talked with them , wrote to them , received letters from them — and all the time heard blow-by-blow accounts of their sexual activities , all of which a few years earlier would have had them rotting away in jail for life . |
3 | It 's worth shopping around for one a few years old , after the initial sharp depreciation ( which can be as much as 70% over three years ) has levelled . |
4 | If you 're with a bank and you 've been with them a few years , they 'll give you all kinda loans . |
5 | ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’ |
6 | PAGE 3 girls apparently are feeling the chill and quite unable to earn the sort of mega money available to them a few years ago . |
7 | The competitive nature of public examinations was brutally brought home to me a few years ago when I was first impressed by the instructional potential of programmed learning . |
8 | To him a few years ago : You are my finest invention . |
9 | This happened to us a few years back . |