Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few years [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
| 2 | After a few years this scheme was pronounced a failure . |
| 3 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
| 4 | They were just what their case needed , and for a few years these texts became the foundation of the Canterbury case . |
| 5 | In the West Riding there was " hardly anything above a few years old , but its hands are sufficient to itself " . |
| 6 | Third , there was the severe deterioration of industrial relations in the few years prior to 1914 which brought with it violent strikes and syndicalism . |
| 7 | Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops . |
| 8 | Within a few years firm and formal contacts with the Board of Education had been established . |
| 9 | Within a few years other reformers , including Wilberforce and Clarkson , recognised that their belief in virtually automatic improvement in the population and condition of slaves was naïve . |
| 10 | Within a few years four species of Plasmodium had been recognized , responsible for clinically distinct variants of malaria . |
| 11 | But in the 1880s a successful means of refrigerating meat cargoes was found , and within a few years Australian and Argentine beef , New Zealand lamb , and American pork were flooding into the country . |
| 12 | Within a few years some observers even began to sense in his reforms the triumph of capitalism over Communism , in that the USSR seemed to be adopting Western methods . |
| 13 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
| 14 | Within a few years most chemists had adopted the anti-phlogistic theory . |
| 15 | Within a few years most of its nominal 100 ships of the line were unfit for sea , although by 1770 a new conflict with Spain over the Falkland Islands seemed likely . |
| 16 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
| 17 | The grim alternative is that in a few years many more specialties will be in the position of thoracic medicine and more junior doctors will spend even longer in the training grades . |
| 18 | in a few years this er , they 're not building houses so these houses are gon na go , rocket again |