Example sentences of "[art] few years [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also the safety aspect : if you have bad lighting or dangerously worn carpet on part of the staircase , waiting for a few years to tackle the problem because it is all part of the grand plan could prove very false economy indeed . |
| 2 | He left for a few years to manage a national school , independent of the British system , but returned to read law . |
| 3 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 4 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 5 | After the disastrous moorland fire , it had taken Jonadab a few years to overcome the loss of both stock and crops . |