Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | After a ten years I 've in consequence of the ill state of my nephew . |
2 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
3 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
4 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | For a dozen years it was a vintage period in all respects . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | For a few years he was a lecturer in divinity at Hertford College and in 1911 published A Gospel Monogram . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
13 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
14 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
15 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
23 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
24 | Merceron 's political career began in 1787 , and within a few years he had became a vestryman , a tax commissioner , and a justice of the peace . |
25 | Cavan 's biggest problem is tradition according to Reilly , so much so that if a manager does n't deliver the goods within a few years he 's gone and a new one comes along . |
26 | Yet within a few years she won the County Bronze and Silver Championships in two successive seasons , almost certainly a unique feat . |
27 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
28 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
29 | In a few years he 'll have developed a big enough ass to occupy my chair . ’ |
30 | In a few years I 'd be just like mammy , cleaning for toffs ; and I 'd have weans and it 'd be too late then , and my man 'd be just like daddy was before he died , working a' week and getting drunk on Friday nights and a' day Saturdays . ’ |