Example sentences of "only [art] [det] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together . |
| 2 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
| 3 | Data on accelerated soil erosion in the tropics is generally derived from small experimental plots , with only a few years of data . |
| 4 | But to all West Germany 's neighbours , the idea of a German military force only a few years after the defeat of Hitler s armies was still repugnant . |
| 5 | All too often , a ‘ best of all time show-stopper ’ is difficult to find only a few years after its introduction , superseded by yet another new name . |
| 6 | Only a few years after the war the arts became separated from ideology in a way that enabled both artistic practice and theory to gain so-called independence . |
| 7 | Only a few years after claiming that there were no known substitutes , the companies are discovering a wide range of alternatives — including soap and water — which are not only cheaper but in some cases better than CFCs . |
| 8 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 9 | Is Horace , at the close of a poem published only a few years before the end of his own life , talking at and through " Torquatus " , talking to Rome , to the culture whose imperial destiny was beginning to seem less and less convincing and whose traditional virtues had become a matter of pious rhetoric ? |