Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] year [conj] " in BNC.

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1 However , the whole matter was another aspect of one of the storms in a set of teacups that accompanied the whole unhappy Profumo matter and has continued to do so for the many years since it was first raised .
2 I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first .
3 If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely .
4 He gave up farming and opened a restaurant in Glasgow but his new businesses failed after a few years and he left Scotland to live in Rugby until his death in 1937 .
5 It was not until the end of the same year that Henry and Philip of France followed suit .
6 In the summer of the same year that saw the first air mail service across Western Canada I met Hollick-Kenyon by arrangement in New York .
7 Indeed of the only two Bölkow 207s to have previously appeared on the UK register , G-ARYN ( first registered 3/62 ) returned swiftly to Germany in November 1963 as D-EHUK , while G-ASAY ( first registered 6/62 ) was damaged in Belgium of the same year and rebuilt in — you 've guessed , Germany — becoming D-EGLU .
8 A similar sister coach B16 of the same year and vintage was restored some two years ago by the same Birkenhead company .
9 Because I think it was Tommy that said it was really after the one finished and there was nothing else round about that there was a gap of a few years and then you got started again here .
10 As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen …
11 And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again .
12 They used the mill for silk manufacture for a few years but by 1860 ownership had passed to Samuel Long , who was also running Charfield Mills .
13 Jean or Jeannie Symonds was still working in Skinners in 1913 , left the trade for a few years but was readmitted in 1927 , so it seems safe to assume that she spent much of her working life in the printing trade and did not marry .
14 No I can understand her not having , not wanting kids for a few years but , ca n't you ?
15 Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team .
16 ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret .
17 Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely .
18 Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’
19 I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away .
20 Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it .
21 It was a difficult period for a few years until the market caught up with us . ’
22 The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters .
23 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 .
24 The first cultivators in Africa , as in all parts of the world , would farm a field for a few years and then , when its fertility began to drop , move on to an adjacent , or occasionally distant , area where high yields could be maintained for a similar period .
25 Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records .
26 He retired from public life for a few years and then returned to full prominence .
27 ‘ After the Smiths I had been playing the guitar for a few years and I was listening to things like Aztec Camera and Orange Juice .
28 New sayings are on everyone 's lips for a few years and then for no reason they disappear , becoming as dead and as dated as the dodo .
29 He remained at sea for a few years and probably visited the United States .
30 Darwin settled down in London for a few years and became an active member of the Geological Society .
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