Example sentences of "[vb -s] a few year [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago . |
2 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
3 | The development of what we still see as the modern corporation began with Pierre S. du Pont 's restructuring of his family company in the early twenties and continued with Alfred P. Sloan 's redesign of General Motors a few years later . |
4 | Fox appears a few years later at Churches Mill . |
5 | The same charge will apply to the north and south car parks in Victoria Road , which were made short stay car parks a few years ago . |
6 | The Mexico–Australia , Paraguay–USA , and Paraguay–France matches a few years ago were other notorious examples . |