Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] a [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 2 | It is part of a rather complicated arrangement that has been going on for a few years now . ’ |
| 3 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 4 | Cider and culinary apple orchards have gone the same way , all helped along until a few years ago by government grants to grub up the old trees and replace them with easy to spray , prune and pick bush types . |
| 5 | By such standards both footballers and cricketers , provided they were among the minority who avoided injury and played in the first team , were quite well off for a few years . |
| 6 | to consult the landed and trading interest of the nation , by lessening its incumbrances and public debts , and putting them in a method of being paid off in a few years ; which could not have been done , unless a way had been found to make the Annuities for long terms redeemable ; which had been happily effected by the South-Sea Scheme , without a breach of parliamentary faith . |
| 7 | He found it incredibly rewarding and had a couple of momentous experiences of such excitement that he tried to recreate the excitement instead of going back to what caused it ( the old Orgasmic-Goal orientation — see Dr Ruth , pages 12 to 461 ) , so he gave up for a few years . |
| 8 | Each centre aims to build up in a few years the basis for energy conservation throughout industry , transport and construction — an ambitious target , which Chandler feels is achievable . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 10 | It broke up within a few years of Anselm 's death under the impact of forces which were too strong for it . |
| 11 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 12 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 13 | Incidentally , the last I heard , that weekly coach to the Upper Witham was still running — under the name of Heeley Angling Club and , even more surprising , I understand that ’ Jock ’ was still driving them up to a few years ago . |
| 14 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 15 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 16 | Production of the Japanese industry 's two principal profit earners — the F-15J fighter and the P-3C anti-submarine aircraft , both built under licence from the United States — will peter out in a few years ' time . |
| 17 | And this information will be linguistically analyzed , and then used to help compile the new dictionary which will be coming out in a few years . |
| 18 | He 'll be out in a few years time . |
| 19 | So all them hassles what you 're gon na get in the future when they they 're gon na fall out in a few years time . |
| 20 | Yet in most of the cases they present , the hoaxer was found out within a few years and promptly punished with significant disgrace . |
| 21 | Come back in a few years , eh ? ’ |
| 22 | think back to a few years back when I was in training about a job and you might still think it now , but I could n't give , put ideas over to somebody on one-to-one training . |
| 23 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 24 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 25 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 26 | Coda has published its report and accounts each year since 1987 because , Turner says , its products are generally sold to the financial directors of large corporations and they always want the security of knowing how a firm is doing and if it will still be around in a few years . |