Example sentences of "his [noun] [art] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has had the great distinction of having to deny past intelligence experience — when the former Cabinet Secretary made his allegation a few years ago . |
| 2 | De Gaulle 's known views — fashioned by his interpretation of the collapse of France in 1940 and his resentment over the refusal of Britain and the United States to treat him as an equal in prosecuting the war effort , on the failings of the Fourth Republic , on reforming NATO , on the need for France to acquire greater international prestige , along with his ambition to affect a lasting reconciliation between France and West Germany ( ideally on French terms ) — all influenced his decision to terminate the Maudling Committee negotiations , and all were still influential in his rejection a few years later of the British application to enter the EEC . |
| 3 | When he had written his autobiography a few years earlier , he had started it with the verse : — |
| 4 | Hill House , the new home which Harry Pascoe had had built for himself and his family a few years before , stood in solitary grandeur on the high ground out towards Townsend 's Farm . |
| 5 | But he 's still mainly known either for having had Grace in his face a few years back , or as the third meatboy in line after Stallone and Scharzenegger ; one of that strange Eighties breed of actors who can manage all kinds of complicated weapons , but have trouble with lines of dialogue longer than ten words . |