Example sentences of "[num ord] few years [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few years they were happy together . |
| 2 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 3 | Over the next few years we are projecting very high rates of growth , not less than double and up to three times the rate of inflation . |
| 4 | Over the next few years we were to see the terminal in all its stages of construction on our various visits to Scapa Flow and we were to become very familiar with Flotta not only in the earlier days , but later when the terminal was operational and our crews began their real work of checking the large tankers . |
| 5 | Accreditation was not a concept that had gained currency in Britain at this time , and in developments over the next few years it was to receive a variety of interpretations in British further and higher education . |
| 6 | Over the next few years he was active in , first , local and soon national military affairs . |
| 7 | The economy has been so strong in the last few years it 's going to take a lot to bring it down . ’ |
| 8 | For the last few years it was held up by 20 players of outstanding international standard and we did not realise that technically we were dying ’ . |
| 9 | Patricia McQuigg , the mother of one of his friends , says : ‘ Luke practically lived at my house during the last few years he was at school . |