Example sentences of "a few years [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd settle for a few years with four legs like a cheetah and be able to go at forty miles an hour , ’ Otley declared . |
| 2 | Missionary Kate McBeth wrote : ‘ For a few years at first Joseph was afraid to come down upon the Nez Perce reserve — afraid of the surrounding whites and because of the many indictments against him — but this fear wore off . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 5 | It is true that the quality of most waters runs in cycles ; a few years of mediocre fish followed by a few years of quality fish . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When you start working in advertising get a few years of solid experience with one agency under your belt . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The escalating cost of these tax benefits would be checked within a few years of this policy being implemented . |
| 10 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 11 | Within a few years of this edition Hopkins was firmly established in the canon of English poetry . |
| 12 | The contains no explicit stipulation that the muderris should also act as mufti of Manisa — or , alternatively , that the mufti of Manisa should act as muderris — but it would appear that by at least a few years before 944/1537–8 , if not earlier , such had become the practice . " |
| 13 | Should the soil be in need of replenishment all the vines are grubbed up and the land left to fallow for a few years before new vinestock are planted and the entire cycle begins again . |
| 14 | Unfortunately the cup was only awarded for a few years before that too disappeared . |
| 15 | The Marxists , by contrast , had only been able to build a viable organization , under the name of the British Socialist Party , for a few years before 1914 and were always bedevilled by sectarianism and schism . |
| 16 | ( This was a few years before little actors such as Al Pacino , Richard Dreyfuss or Dudley Moore became big . ) |
| 17 | They were , and the Pryces spent a few years in married bliss before the third Lady Pryce died in 1748 . |
| 18 | After a few years in atomic energy research he then discovered his vocation as teacher and enthusiast as a lecturer in chemistry at Birkenhead Technical College , where he also voluntarily taught about theatre , literature and music in a humanities section . |
| 19 | He was my foursomes partner for a few years in international golf and there is no better way to assess another 's playing ability . |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | Cheyney passed from Sandhurst into the army , buying a commission in a regiment which was ordered to India , where he spent a few years in inactive service . |
| 22 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 23 | I just wondered if someone who had spent a few years in medical school might take a job away from the field … just for a summer . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But I was n't into heroin on a full scale for a few years after that . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Even so , it took ‘ Ramshackle Mac ’ ( a sobriquet bestowed by his friend Lady Londonderry ) a few years after 1931 to achieve the full splendour of his hopelessness . |
| 29 | For a few years after 1413 a lease on the islands of Korcula , Hvar and Brac was obtained with the agreement of the Habsburg Emperor , Sigismund , but the Ragusans failed to maintain their position in face of the hostility of the islanders and the rivalries of their Venetian , Hungarian and Slav neighbours . |