Example sentences of "than a [noun sg] [prep] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is equivalent to five days ' trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange , 2.5 times more than a couple of years ago . |
| 2 | The gestation period from first inquiry to first completed shipment is rarely less than a couple of years . |
| 3 | Probably the best advice is to be wary of any project that is more than a couple of years old , and to be extremely wary of any that were published more than five years ago . |
| 4 | Insiders reckon the notion of slimming the government machine carries even less credibility within City Hall now than a couple of years ago — and even then it was only talk . |
| 5 | Losers £100 million fortunes just dribbled away to nothing in no more than a couple of years |
| 6 | He has never stayed in any one place longer than a couple of years and prides himself on knowing when to go . |
| 7 | The only people who did keep in touch with Ken for more than a block of years in which they were extremely close , only for it all to fade away , were Stanley Baxter and Gordon Jackson . |