Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the sites under consideration may be of the same date and status , but they may be occupied for part of the year , or for a few years only . |
| 2 | But by the time I had reached middle age , the Ordnance Survey had switched the names after an inconclusive local census , and for a few years the eastern stream appeared on their maps as the River Doe before being changed again — this time to the River Greta , having no doubt decided that the eastern stream was the principal of the two and really the source of the parent river . |
| 3 | They were just what their case needed , and for a few years these texts became the foundation of the Canterbury case . |
| 4 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 5 | Halling had to wait until the 1939–45 war when a military bridge was erected and a road laid down and for a few years the people of Wouldham and Halling were able to move freely between the villages , which was a great asset to the people of Wouldham who used the bridge to get to work on this side of the river , but it was certainly the death knell of the ferry . |
| 6 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 7 | Carl moved into agency at NEMS in the late 1970s and after a few years was instrumental in the formation of the PAN agency . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Eventually James Wyllie married Mrs. Kay 's sister and after a few years the Wyllie family took over the firm , retaining the name , Andrew Kay & Company . |
| 10 | I was lucky to get a job at Highgate , and after a few years was able tor educe my teaching to three days a week . |
| 11 | The first adult Scout troop formed was the 1st Duke of Grafton 's Own ( Clapham St. Bede 's ) which was formed in 1913 , and within a few years there were also Scouters and Guiders established in London at West Ham , Green Lanes ( St. John of Beverley 's ) , North Clapham and Stoke Newington . |
| 12 | These inspired the Chinese people and within a few years , there had been major efforts to move away from the centralised , planned economic system which was typical of communist regimes . |
| 13 | Under the legislation this was not in fact required ( only the Boards as a whole were required to break even ‘ taking one year with another ’ ) , but Citrine and his senior colleagues believed that it was a desirable principle that each Board should break even , and within a few years of nationalisation this was also tacitly accepted by the Boards . |
| 14 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 15 | Tace , describing the orchid in his novel , had also told where it was to be found , and within a few years every tuber and plant of leuchorchis albida had been stripped from the moor . |
| 16 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But in the 1880s a successful means of refrigerating meat cargoes was found , and within a few years Australian and Argentine beef , New Zealand lamb , and American pork were flooding into the country . |
| 19 | Remember that any such feature is simply a vehicle for the plants to be grown over it , and in a few years the structure becomes incidental to the glory of the climber that smothers it . |
| 20 | Quitting England , the two moved into the abandoned eighteenth-century château Castille in Provence which they renovated The pictures were Douglas 's and the furniture was mine ’ , says Richardson and in a few years , Cooper and Richardson made the place a private museum and shrine to Cubism and its creators , and where Picasso , Leger and Braque were frequent visitors . |
| 21 | The rate for waggoning increased and in a few years up to about 11/ per 100 kibbles was paid for ore brought out to the Bonsor Mill . |
| 22 | Let them run down just so much every year , remember your low outgoings , and in a few years ' time have them towed away for their break-up value . " |
| 23 | These lovely plants may take time to form large flowering clumps but after a few years are a sight to behold and are worth every bit of effort you expend . |
| 24 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
| 25 | It is clear that the bunched replacement of fixed capital requires a considerable growth in the rate of the production of fixed assets , but after a few years the need for such replacement will decline rapidly . |
| 26 | Margo went from strength to strength , with bigger and better parts , but after a few years turned to acting and much later married an Australian singer/actor , Rod McLennon , and went to live in Melbourne . |
| 27 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 28 | But after a few years I discovered I was not earning enough money from my patients . |
| 29 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 30 | But within a few years , before the majority of LEAs could submit their schemes for departmental approval , a combination of factors forced the closure of the half-dozen or so schools which had opened . |