Example sentences of "a few years [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came to know and admire Beethoven 's ‘ Pastoral ’ symphony for the scenes depicted ; I enjoyed Saint Saens ' ’ Carnival of the Animals ’ , Prokofieff 's ‘ Peter and the Wolf ’ , and Benjamin Britten 's ‘ Guide to the Orchestra ’ as well as ‘ Ein Heldenleben ’ ( A Hero 's Life ) by Richard Strauss , the symphonies of Brahms , Haydn and Tschaikowsky , and especially , for a few years at any rate , the latter 's ‘ 1812 Overture ’ . |
| 2 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 3 | Originally ascribed to the 1660s it now seems highly likely that they date from the 1630s and were made within a few years of each other . |
| 4 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
| 5 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 6 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 7 | Within a few years of this edition Hopkins was firmly established in the canon of English poetry . |
| 8 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 9 | There was never a more astonishing Revolution accomplished in the internal system of any country than there has been within the compass of a few years in that of England … |
| 10 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 11 | Seismic data were returned to Earth over a period of a few years from these five stations , though they were reduced to four when the Apollo 11 station stopped working . |
| 12 | And a few years after that his sticky career came to an end when he and a friend called Gentle ( who was anything but ) murdered a woman called Josephine Chipperfield at her home in Easterhouse and wounded several of her family . |
| 13 | But I was n't into heroin on a full scale for a few years after that . |
| 14 | And er course , that where the restrictions was on see at the and of course , after that , a few years after that , of course take no notice of it now . |