Example sentences of "to [noun] a few years " in BNC.
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1 | Even these statistics palled to insignificance a few years later when cocaine joined with heroin in the hard drugs scene and the high value of low bulk concentrated drugs made it so profitable and easy to smuggle . |
2 | Erle returned to Dorset a few years later to become a ship-money refuser and to head the poll in the county election of March 1640 ; but he resigned the seat to George Digby , second Earl of Bristol [ q.v. ] , and served for Lyme Regis in the Short Parliament , to which he reported on innovations in religion . |
3 | More to the point , she had travelled to Italy a few years previously while in the employment of Sir Charles B. |
4 | The sixth child was taken captive but returned to friends a few years later . |
5 | When she went to Bolsover a few years ago at the time of the salmonella in eggs crisis , she went into South Normanton marketplace and met a woman there who said , ’ Hey you , are you Currie , the one about the salmonella ? ’ |