Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few year a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few years a department may be left with serious gaps in its library and a load of superannuated computing equipment . |
| 2 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 3 | Smith himself was for a few years a tutor at Christ Church , but in 1795 he resigned his studentship to become incumbent of Daventry ( a Christ Church living ) , returning to Christ Church as a canon in 1807 . |
| 4 | For a few years a lean-to building stood against the remaining old wall which sheltered the homeless and I have spoken to one old inhabitant of Halling who remembers coming to the village as a young child and whose parents , being unable to afford other accommodation , sheltered there . |
| 5 | Within a few years a temporary revival was on the way , however , and William Titford , grandson of William the Emigrant , was achieving a fair degree of success as a partner in the silk-manufacturing business of Cotes , Titford and Brookes , then operating in Union Street , Bishopsgate . |
| 6 | Thus in a few years a mere convenience for keyboard players had developed into a widely adopted performing practice which revolutionized musical textures and was to remain in use for two centuries . |