Example sentences of "[art] few years [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few years ago a minute fossil only about 2 mm long was recovered from limestones of Ordovician age , and christened Janospira . |
| 2 | A few years ago a friend told me that he once started counting them . |
| 3 | Occasionally the enquiry becomes public knowledge ; a few years ago a copy of the authority for an enquiry into a well-known high street retailer appeared on the front page of a national newspaper . |
| 4 | However , there is a great deal of public confusion about the nature of black holes : only a few years ago a television serial depicted astronauts landing on the surface-of one ! |
| 5 | I remember a few years ago a lady bought a jumper to the knitting club , displaying it proudly and saying : ‘ it 's just some out of the washing machine ’ . |
| 6 | Only a few years ago a drug 's prospects were easy to calculate . |
| 7 | Whereas a few years ago a mainframe computer would have been essential to perform corpus processing , a desktop computer now suffices . |
| 8 | Purcell declared that in his first set of trio sonatas he had ‘ faithfully endeavour 'd a just imitation of the most fam 'd Italian Masters ’ , and a few years later a French writer , Le Cerf de La Viéville , complained bitterly of ‘ cette fureur de composer des sonates á la manière italienne ’ . |
| 9 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |