Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't toured for a few years now , apart from the World Cup and I made that an exception because I felt we could go all the way and win it . ’ |
| 2 | In 1986 , when leading , he hit a four-iron into it , his confidence seemingly shattered for a few years after . |
| 3 | This had no very radical consequences : it was dropped after a few years , Diodorus says ( xi.87 ) , because too many of the prominent citizens were thereby discouraged from engaging in political life . |
| 4 | Most of the detailed factual material learned in the sixth form is forgotten or superseded within a few years . |
| 5 | Like the books mentioned above , its specific content will be superseded in a few years ; but in meantime the book may be able to rescue some future Nobel laureates from becoming otherwise lost in cyberspace . |
| 6 | Without them the useful life of streptomycin might have been confined to a few years . |
| 7 | Bourdieu 's articles on markets preceded by a few years his pieces on ‘ fields ’ . |
| 8 | Choose an open , sunny site where brassicas have n't been grown for a few years . |
| 9 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
| 10 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
| 11 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 12 | The dilemma of whether to improve ( or not ) an old building which may not be needed in a few years ' time can last for decades . |
| 13 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd will close parts of three ageing plants in the Tokyo area due to restructuring : plants in eastern Tokyo , Hachioji and Takasaki , both in northwestern Tokyo , will be partly closed within a few years , and construction of a new plant in Shimizu , west of Tokyo , due to open in 1995 , has been postponed , too . |
| 14 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 15 | The book was a success : 500,000 copies were sold in a few years , and it was translated into all the major European languages . |
| 16 | The fact is that diesel engines are produced in huge volume compared with a few years ago , reducing costs considerably , while petrol engines have grown ever more complex . |
| 17 | I 'm amazingly affluent compared with a few years ago , especially when I was on the dole for three years . |
| 18 | And though the objects of our gaze have been varied , the experience has been a unified one , for they were the result of one artistic mood , erected within a few years almost 2,500 years ago . |
| 19 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 20 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 21 | In the early fifties after the war the Home Guard was reformed for a few years and some of us , having been demobbed from the forces rejoined , but somehow the spirit of the " Dads ' Army " had gone and one felt the enthusiasm was not there . |
| 22 | ‘ Supplies of suitable coal in the future can not be guaranteed and unless the current experiments with oil firing are successful then it is likely that steam operation on S.M.R. may have to be abandoned in a few years time . |
| 23 | The effervescent executive is likely to be gone in a few years , many of the employees will be gone , and the owners may be different as well . |
| 24 | The latter part of the decade saw St Owens Mill start up , followed within a few years by the Island Street and Victoria Street Mills , Luker also involved with the latter . |
| 25 | It is true that the quality of most waters runs in cycles ; a few years of mediocre fish followed by a few years of quality fish . |
| 26 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 29 | The ground was cropped until it was exhausted and had to be left for a few years to recuperate . |
| 30 | As originally laid there was also a single line curve from Lower Church Street towards Sutton , but it was rarely used and removed after a few years . |