Example sentences of "[noun sg] a few years [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baxter and Puskas renewed their friendship a few years later in Glasgow when Real Madrid came to play a European Cup against Rangers . |
| 2 | I was in the air force a few years later . ’ |
| 3 | He got me a ring a few years ago . |
| 4 | The media commentator Michael Leapman , writing in the Independent on Sunday , observed that ‘ she has not usually done well in other roles … her Panorama programme on TV violence a few years ago was not judged a critical success . ’ |
| 5 | He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago . |
| 6 | One Steiff teddy fetched £55,000 at auction a few years ago , although Stonegate 's reproduction of it is somewhat more sensible priced at £175 . |
| 7 | ‘ The enterprise of the Leeds City management in securing Speirs would have staggered those responsible for the club a few years ago , ’ observed the Yorkshire Evening Post . |
| 8 | Pioneering research a few years ago by American chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Ponns , was dismissed as a false dawn and ‘ con fusion ’ . |
| 9 | Jan Turner says that he helped organise an evererst marathon a few years ago and one sad thing about that was the local runners could not afford the right equipment or did n't have the money to tarin … so he 's here to help them |
| 10 | Officials said that , had Labour won , there would have been a period of uncertainty , although Mr Kinnock 's policies had changed and he was no longer the frightening prospect he seemed to the US administration a few years ago . |
| 11 | When the recession and falling prices hit the oil industry a few years later Caltex was able to ‘ shake out ’ the workforce with ease . |
| 12 | The problems faced by Britain 's loudspeaker industry a few years ago , when political upheavals in Zaire disrupted cobalt supplies , highlight the crucial nature of the strategic metals . |
| 13 | The township got electric light a few years ago , yet for as long as anyone could remember power-station cooling stacks had blasted out steam day and night ; the power went to white Johannesburg a few miles down the road . |
| 14 | Even these statistics palled to insignificance a few years later when cocaine joined with heroin in the hard drugs scene and the high value of low bulk concentrated drugs made it so profitable and easy to smuggle . |
| 15 | She had been , before her second marriage a few years ago to Mr Alderley , Baroness to Lord Switham , who owned all the land round about , with the exception of Merchiston Lodge and other hunting boxes in the vicinity belonging to various members of the haut ton . |
| 16 | Pioneering work a few years ago by Keith Waters at Middlesex Polytechnic experimented with a computer-generated version of Spitting Image . |
| 17 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 18 | She argued that if women were paid the same as men " it would result in many women being dismissed from many trades " , and also accepted without demur , when giving evidence to the Fair Wages Committee a few years later , the proposition that women were satisfied with less money because they were earning " pin money " if married , and " pocket money " if not.38 With such pessimism about equal pay entrenched in the mind of their organizers , with such low evaluation being set on their work , one might argue that it would have been surprising if a militant women 's union could really be organized in the prevailing atmosphere . |
| 19 | I am sure members will be aware speed speedway received financial assistance from the Council a few years ago when they ran into difficulties . |
| 20 | Submerged plants rarely attract attention except when they are a nuisance as in the rotting infestation of sea lettuce a few years ago that produced enough hydrogen sulphide gas to discolour housepaint and tarnish silverware in the unfortunate town of Deale , in Maryland . |
| 21 | They had been dominant there since the late fourteenth century , played an important part in Henry IV 's usurpation in 1399 but were forfeited for revolt a few years later . |
| 22 | It brought onto Chinese territory Russian forces whose reluctance to withdraw from the province of Manchuria sparked off the Russo-Japanese War a few years later . |
| 23 | I recall going into such a shop a few years ago to replace my survival bag . |
| 24 | They went into a quiet period a few years ago it was very quiet erm but er yes they 're they 're going strong . |
| 25 | Trainer Ian Duncan , whose stable is on the shores of Lough Neagh , was also scoring his first win in this historic race although he had gone close when Camlin River was beaten by Phillipinetown Lad a few years ago . |
| 26 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |
| 27 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |
| 28 | Spencer Stuart went through this process a few years earlier in a more effective way . |
| 29 | You , you did give once to a group a few years ago . |
| 30 | An investigation by the Building Research Establishment a few years ago identified over a thousand different kinds of faults in new homes under construction . |