Example sentences of "be [adv] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fact is , ’ he went on , ‘ there are only a few years remaining for your Aunt Emily and myself . |
| 2 | As it happens , in the early days of computers it was thought that it would be only a few years before computers would be able to understand natural language . |
| 3 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 4 | Now that many good leasehold titles are quite a few years old , however , this might well be the time to apply to the Registry to convert a good leasehold to an absolute title . |
| 5 | been quite a few years she 's been |
| 6 | Sadly , the old bitches his mother lined up were only a few years younger than him . |
| 7 | In fact , as a result of automation and computerisation , production costs as a percentage of total cost are now considerably lower than they were only a few years ago . |
| 8 | ‘ When the meteorite landed there were big problems in Kershaw , just like there were again a few years ago . |
| 9 | It is only a few years ago that we were being warned about the arrival of another ice age , for heavens ' sake ! |
| 10 | Full multimedia interactivity , networked through cheap , standardised communications systems is only a few years away . |
| 11 | What a shame that Andy Nicol is not a few years younger , for he too showed himself to be of world class in last year 's celebration of New Zealand 's centenary , when he played for the World XV in Christchurch . |
| 12 | It is just a few years since the club — whose anthem was : ‘ We are Millwall . |
| 13 | It was only a few years since Schiaparelli had been a living pan-cultural matrix , a cosmopolitan crossroads of the solar system , where all the client races of Capella could co-exist in noisy harmony , or pass through , haggling , to the caravanserais of the south . |
| 14 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 15 | It was only a few years ago that cheques and cash were the only means of payment available . |
| 16 | Going on to the article itself which was probably a few years old , there was a part about jaundice and its treatment . |
| 17 | In essence , then , there is far less to see of the history of industrial landscapes than there was even a few years ago . |
| 18 | I believe that I will always remember it , even though it was quite a few years ago and even though it has recurred quite a few times since . |
| 19 | And er that was quite a few years ago , about the conditions and on tea estates , and er er that was partly why we switched mostly to Kenyan tea I think after that . |