Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | With 20 : 20 vision , hindsight is very easy , but if only some of the things that are now happening at Asfordby had been accepted more readily a few years ago , we might well have been having a very different debate today . |
| 2 | When his father died in 1933 Dawson inherited the family property in Yorkshire and went to live at Hartlington Hall , but stayed there only a few years because of his frail health . |
| 3 | If the battle in which Penda fought Cwichelm and Cynegils at Cirencester , dated to 628 in the Chronicle A ( s.a. 628 ) ( which is almost certainly a few years too early ) , can be safely placed before 633/4 , Penda was already a formidable force before Hatfield , but even if it were to date to a little after 633/4 it still reveals the wide-ranging character of Penda 's early activities . |
| 4 | Yet only a few years later , the Royal Commission of 1954–1957 recommended radical changes with a new policy of community integration . |
| 5 | Looking forward just a few years , multimedia is clearly going to become a standard , highly influential feature of a vast range of computer applications in all sectors of our personal , professional and business lives . |
| 6 | One of the points we made was that even a few years in multimedia development is a very long time . |