Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | er just one after thought , Dennis mentioned teamwork , now we we 've been together for a few years basically , but you might say , we work as a team , everyone gets on , everyone helps each other out . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 3 | So in a few years ' time mobile phones will be brought to the masses . |
| 4 | They stayed away for a few years , moving between the markets of the Sahel , exploiting differences in prices in different markets , until they had enough camels to go to Cairo . |
| 5 | Otherwise , Kovacevich was well wide of the mark and if he respects this work he might contemplate putting it away for a few years before reconsidering its interpretation . |
| 6 | Where , then , may we look for hopeful areas of peace , ways in which this new overwhelmingly destructive and readily deployable force may be contained , not just for a few years , but in our minuscule timespan , for ever ? |
| 7 | And er he was there for quite a number of years and then went to just for a few years , and came back to Galashiels to work with the same firm and then he started business on his own . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I mean you can look back like , just over a few years , |
| 10 | Alcoholism may progress quickly over a few years but commonly progresses over twenty years or even more from first intoxication until terminal chronic disease . |
| 11 | Temporarily for a few years trains could use that Thameslink line . |
| 12 | I was doing things I knew that I would be doing properly in a few years . |
| 13 | I 'm f used to that now after a few years . |
| 14 | Oh , they 've been here about a few years now . |
| 15 | ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’ |
| 16 | During the war I worked for the women 's voluntary service and shortly afterwards I went abroad for a few years , returning in the late 1940s , divorced with three children . |
| 17 | For most women , working and childbearing are alternatives , at least for a few years . |
| 18 | And I think the most I 'll get out of it , at least for a few years , is local portrait photography . |
| 19 | In contrast to some other low-income countries in Africa , most children do eventually get to primary school and stay there for a few years . |
| 20 | The owners of Land 's End are experts at the game and my friend Des Hannigan , who 's been working as a journalist down there for a few years , tells me they spray press releases at the local media with mad abandon . |
| 21 | After we had lived there for a few years , we wanted to buy it and do it up , so we asked my College for a mortgage . |
| 22 | Work ended abruptly after a few years — the builders did n't even bother to take their ladder away . |
| 23 | Finishing only , and er then after a few years the manufacturing side of the industry adopted the cost of living different from ours but they adopted a cost of living bonus in in a degree rather different from our . |
| 24 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 25 | And maybe in a few years people will look back and see the things that we tried to do , and hopefully respect them . ’ |
| 26 | She said : ‘ We talked about marriage and Kirk said he did n't want to get married , maybe in a few years time . |
| 27 | Best wishes and thanks for making the old rag worth reading again for a few years … |
| 28 | Every nation believes that its enemies were the aggressors , and may make war again in a few years unless they are utterly defeated . |
| 29 | then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years . |
| 30 | Yet within a few years she won the County Bronze and Silver Championships in two successive seasons , almost certainly a unique feat . |