Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a ten years I 've in consequence of the ill state of my nephew . |
| 2 | Her father encouraged her desire to learn navigation and other aspects of seamanship , and after a few years her proficiency was obvious to everyone who sailed with her . |
| 3 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 4 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 5 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 6 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
| 7 | The name , New Millennium , means the new period of a thousand years which will start in the year 2000–1 and it also suggests an era of peace and harmony . |
| 8 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |
| 9 | Only in recent years has it been taken over as the civic centre , and the Goose Fair relegated to the outer suburbs ; but for something like a thousand years it was the market place . |
| 10 | There is no village now , but for a thousand years there has been a manor . |
| 11 | For a thousand years there has been a manor on this site , which belonged to Hesdins , Wriothosleys , Badds and Worgans until the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | For a dozen years it was a vintage period in all respects . |
| 13 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 14 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 15 | For a few years he was a lecturer in divinity at Hertford College and in 1911 published A Gospel Monogram . |
| 16 | Having worked at Billingham for a few years he was appointed as a commissioning engineer for an ammonia plant in Canada before moving in 1985 to manage the leading concept ammonia [ LCA ] plant at Severnside , Avonmouth . |
| 17 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 18 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 19 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 20 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 21 | Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise . |
| 22 | Other nomads erupted from the deserts of Arabia in the seventh century ; within a hundred years their armies had reached the shores of the Atlantic and the borders of China but , in fascinating contrast to the Huns and Mongols , the Arabs created a new and enduring civilization and founded a faith which today numbers six hundred million adherents . |
| 23 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 24 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 25 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 26 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 27 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
| 28 | Within a few years it had evolved into the ASEA , and by 1909 there were seventeen affiliated committees in London and ten in the provinces . |
| 29 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 30 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |