Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I accept that it has taken a few years for the process to be completed , but everyone who studies the history books will be able to trace the downfall of the Thatcher Government — as some may still call it — to the time when she was foolish enough to remove the right hon. Gentleman from the duties that he was carrying out so successfully . |
| 2 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 3 | He said he 'd played a few years before but was very out of practice |
| 4 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 5 | They might well have done a thousand years ago , but the Imperial Age converted that horizontal relationship into a vertical one so that Sri Lankan schools still teach vertical history ‘ Ceylon Under British Rule ’ and Senegal continues its cultural obsession with France . |
| 6 | A term which certainly I , would n't have understood a few years ago . |
| 7 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 8 | Moreover , CD-ROMs , the media the Data Discman plays , while hardly universally established , are by no means the radical innovation they would have seemed a few years ago . |
| 9 | We might even be able to evolve an exact reconstruction of a dodo by selectively breeding pigeons , though we 'd have to live a million years in order to complete the experiment . |
| 10 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I think I must have aged a dozen years today , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Though it was holding weekly meetings in the 1920s it was no new group , having started a hundred years previously in a London coffee house where members met to discuss debtors and exchange information about how best to deal with bad payers . |
| 13 | ‘ I got him a bit of coley , and it cost me what salmon would 've cost a few years back . |
| 14 | The Duttons had come a hundred years before to the long straggling village of Sherborne in the archaically beautiful Borne Valley , where Thomas Dutton had built the original house of Sherborne Park in 1551 . |
| 15 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 16 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |
| 17 | Frederick II himself had argued a few years earlier that ‘ useful hard-working people should be guarded as the apple of one 's eye , and in wartime recruits should be levied in one 's own country only when the bitterest necessity compels ’ . |
| 18 | but I 've had a few years out |
| 19 | His behaviour , as the Victorian constitutionalist Walter Bagehot had noted a hundred years earlier , was the prerogative of princes . |
| 20 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Once you had served a few years , you might come to detest the job , but you committed yourself to the future . |
| 23 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 24 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 25 | If this had happened a few years earlier — ’ |
| 26 | as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here . |
| 27 | Athelstan stopped to compose himself before continuing : ‘ When it was over , my brother was dead and I had aged a hundred years . |
| 28 | I have had a few years in which to practise cooking and , somewhat immodestly , I think this cake recipe could be classed as excellent . |
| 29 | Advertising is such a complicated business that you may be able to assimilate it better if you have spent a few years " knocking-around " — travelling perhaps , or working in a shop or doing different kinds of jobs . |
| 30 | We have to think a hundred years ahead , not just for the next year or two . |