Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 2 | At present , the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods . |
| 3 | Although walls can be initially quite expensive , they require very little maintenance , little or no staffing and draw in many user visits ( 10,000 per year in Glasgow , 6,000 per year in Fort William ) thus paying for themselves after only a few years . |
| 4 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 5 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 6 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 7 | In the space of only a few years , they regularly flitted around Manchester . |
| 8 | It is particularly appropriate for young patients with diabetes of only a few years ' duration and without complications . |
| 9 | Yet within the space of only a few years , all this optimism , not for the first time , was in tatters — against a world backdrop that was also changing : the waning of American economic strength ; the rise of Japan ; the rapid expansion of decolonialisation ; new superpower hostility with the Cuban missile crisis ; the slowing down of economic growth and indications of problems to come . |
| 10 | But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject . |
| 11 | ‘ Those men are his friends of quite a few years … ’ |
| 12 | A poll showed that Mr Da Silva won it , burying the myth that as an ex-factory worker with only a few years schooling he is unqualified for the presidency . |
| 13 | Are these words to use about an ally you stood shoulder to shoulder with only a few years back ? ’ |
| 14 | Data on accelerated soil erosion in the tropics is generally derived from small experimental plots , with only a few years of data . |
| 15 | But it might be as well for those of you with just a few years to go before you have to repay your loan to check with your insurance company that there 's going to be enough in the kitty to repay it . |
| 16 | So there are some new facets to catering in the RAF today compared with even a few years ago . |
| 17 | Within only a few years the company was exporting its products to central Europe , Russia and the US . |
| 18 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 19 | The fords at first included were later replaced by some 40 bridges , many of which still stand , and many miles of the original road were in use until only a few years ago . |
| 20 | Even in our own lifetime , within just a few years , the destruction of the Earth 's natural forests , as well as man 's industry , is increasing the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide , so subtle is the balance . |
| 21 | That seems a far cry from just a few years ago when the only diesels were lorries , buses and the occasional taxi . |
| 22 | In just a few years , Chilean fishermen have inflicted damage on dolphin stocks which will take decades , if not centuries , to repair . |
| 23 | And when it is burnt in large amounts , then the CO 2 that was taken up in the ancient world over a period of , say , a million years , may be released into the modern world in just a few years . |
| 24 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 25 | Clarify , however , is positioning itself against the others as the most ‘ haute couture ’ of the breed , the kind of house that could easily mushroom into a $100m enterprise in just a few years . |
| 26 | I see it as asking : ‘ What reasons do governments feel justify their vast spending on weapons and equipment , which are more important than : a ) public opinion , and b ) the knowledge that such armaments are bound to become obsolete in just a few years ’ time ? ’ |
| 27 | In its first annual report , it pointed to the difficulties in some areas particularly in the south-east and the west midlands where the available land was limited to only a few years ' supply . |
| 28 | Christians of different denominations feel much closer together now — at the parish level — than they used to even a few years ago . |
| 29 | We went with Alec for quite a few years , and sometimes Mother would come too . |
| 30 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |