Example sentences of "a few years [conj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |
| 2 | Dad died a few years before that — I 'm not sure when . |
| 3 | Within a few years that same young man had determined that things could be put right and that he was the man to do it . |
| 4 | Some make preliminary enquiries then wait a few years but many feel it is so desperately important to know where they came from and who they belonged to that they go ahead . |
| 5 | It matters not ; within a few years and many fast and furious films later , he was being heralded not as the king of exploitation but as something of a genius , to which description he again did not object . |
| 6 | In the early fifties after the war the Home Guard was reformed for a few years and some of us , having been demobbed from the forces rejoined , but somehow the spirit of the " Dads ' Army " had gone and one felt the enthusiasm was not there . |