Example sentences of "have [vb pp] a few 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 | A term which certainly I , would n't have understood a few years ago . |
| 5 | Having spent a few years in both camps the matter was resolved in 1981 when Stoddards and Templetons were merged . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I got him a bit of coley , and it cost me what salmon would 've cost a few years back . |
| 9 | If only it had come a few years earlier . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | but I 've had a few years out |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Once you had served a few years , you might come to detest the job , but you committed yourself to the future . |
| 16 | If this had happened a few years earlier — ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I have had a few years in which to practise cooking and , somewhat immodestly , I think this cake recipe could be classed as excellent . |
| 19 | 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 . |