Example sentences of "a [adj] years [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 2 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 3 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 4 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 5 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 6 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 7 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |
| 8 | In a few years he 'll have developed a big enough ass to occupy my chair . ’ |
| 9 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 11 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 12 | In a few years I 'd be just like mammy , cleaning for toffs ; and I 'd have weans and it 'd be too late then , and my man 'd be just like daddy was before he died , working a' week and getting drunk on Friday nights and a' day Saturdays . ’ |
| 13 | But once the technology becomes more refined , I definitely think that in a few years you 'll have a lot of people who do n't touch chemicals at all . |
| 14 | But once the technology becomes more refined , I definitely think that in a few years you 'll have a lot of people who do n't touch chemicals at all . |
| 15 | " After all , in a few years you can leave the convent . |
| 16 | Holiday parks in which you can camp , or stay in a chalet or caravan are now remarkably good — so much so that if you have n't tried this kind of holiday for a few years you could be in for a very pleasant surprise . |
| 17 | Emma is always asking when we will go back , and our only worry now is that in a few years she will probably be waking us up at dawn on icy mornings , saying : ‘ Shall we go down the black run first ? ’ |
| 18 | We reckon in about four and a half years I should have gone up at least a grade , so , allowing for the usual increments , and assuming that the mortgage rate does n't rise above the present eleven per cent , I should think we could afford to let Juliet stop work then . ’ |
| 19 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 20 | We should make a habit of not crossing roads , for instance , for if you crossed a road every day for half a million years you would undoubtedly be run over . |