Example sentences of "a [adj] years in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 2 | If anyone deserved a few years in an open prison it was Beamish . |
| 3 | ‘ D'ye know what it is , ’ he growled , ‘ a few years in the army would do some of those boyos a power of good . |
| 4 | Similar criteria have often applied to the education officer who , after a few years in the classroom . |
| 5 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 6 | Maybe that 's one reason why this show has been a few years in the making . |
| 7 | For one thing , the war was only a matter of a few years in the past and the number of potential suitors must have been severely limited , especially of the right intellect and calibre . |
| 8 | For a few years in the mid-1980s this pattern was reversed , and the number of people leaving the United Kingdom fell below the number entering . |
| 9 | Hugh began as a chargehand in the Teasing Department , where he returned to become foreman after a few years in the Dyed Wool Blending Department . |
| 10 | For a few years in the Sixties , scooter clubs replaced cycling but the phase passed and the emphasis was switched again to entertainment and raising money for charity . |
| 11 | A MOTHER who waited two and a half years in a Spanish jail before being convicted on drug charges was freed yesterday after receiving remission on her sentence for being ‘ a model prisoner ’ . |
| 12 | As a man without qualifications he drifted towards a commercial career but , after two and a half years in a city shipping office , was rescued by a legacy of £1,000 from an aunt . |
| 13 | In her two and a half years in the Yemen , TRACY THOMPSON finds an almost unspoilt land to sketch , paint , and immortalise . |
| 14 | The training committee was wound up by Vic Machin , the chairman and the BMC secretary Derek Walker some months ago — but they have yet to inform the committee : a clear snub to the many volunteers who banged their heads against a wall with only limited success for a dozen years in a genuine attempt to impart some credibility to the BMC 's involvement in mountain training . |
| 15 | After a dozen years in the business Keener looks with particular affection on the recordings he has done with Leonard Slatkin , especially the Elgar and Vaughan Williams Symphonies . |
| 16 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 17 | The Zombie ( played by a well-known Horror Film Specialist ) had walked for a thousand years in a subterranean cavern which was broken open by an earthquake in Lisbon . |
| 18 | I 've worked with better material than you , but it 's either that or — have you ever spent a million years in a coal measure ? ’ |
| 19 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 20 | Within a short period , after over a hundred years in the Shurmurs ' hands , the mill was conveyed to William Humphries Bennet and , in 1806 , passed into the hands of John Knowles . |
| 21 | Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times . |