Example sentences of "few years [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |
| 2 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 3 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |
| 4 | And then the next time , a few years later he 'd got it back |
| 5 | In the late seventeenth century he came to India , gained a prominent post in the Imperial army and married into the Mughal aristocracy ; a few years later he succeeded his father-in-law as Nawab ( Governor ) of Oudh . |
| 6 | A few years later he discovered , to his fury , that the painters ' prices had soared and the paintings that he despised would have been immensely valuable . |
| 7 | A few years later he accepted it himself . |
| 8 | Payments terminated on 31 May 1753 , but evidently no ill feeling marred the end of Miller 's contract as a few years later he dedicated to the Duke the beautiful Figures of Plants ( 2 vols. ) which had been published in parts from 1755–60 . |
| 9 | A few years later I told him how much I loved his way of telling stories . |
| 10 | I got quite good ones actually cos I got two children next to each other and a few years later I got them to do it again but I do n't know if I can find them all . |
| 11 | Akroyd Stuart was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1901 , but a few years previously he had emigrated to Australia , where he involved himself in the design and manufacture of the Akroyd patent down-draught gas producer . |
| 12 | ‘ A few years ago we realised we had lost our way , ’ says The Economist UK marketing manager Chantal Hughes . |
| 13 | A few years ago we had rows all the time about politics but more recently we kept off the subject most of the time . |
| 14 | A few years ago we hoped that a footpath would have been incorporated in the flood protection scheme . |
| 15 | ‘ A few years ago we thought the Butter Market could have been made into a little museum but it would have been difficult to cross the roads into it . ’ |
| 16 | A few years ago we bought a company called who manufacture all the filters that we use . |
| 17 | A few years ago you wrote about the merits of sarkandas reed as a waggler material . |
| 18 | My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail . |
| 19 | A few years ago I attended , along with my husband , a dinner given in honour of an American diplomat to celebrate his retiral and long association with Edinburgh . |
| 20 | Emergency wanted A few years ago I wrote a little book called Discovering Backpacking . |
| 21 | A few years ago I saw a modification with two small hydraulic servos , one fitted to the front and one fitted to the rear brake pipes , ahead of the brake failure device . |
| 22 | A few years ago I saw a catalogue offering Scotch , sometimes called ‘ Burnett ’ , roses . |
| 23 | A few years ago I saw a couple of Eastenders stars come in erm and Ross whatever his name forget his name there were two young girls standing in front of me scraping pennies out of their purse to get in though we loved that character they wanted to come that night we 've got to get girls like that youngsters like that interested to come on other nights and then come again that 's what needs doing . . |
| 24 | He says a few years ago I asked my father 's test pilot Geoffrey Quill about this business of the seagulls and he told me your father was a hard-headed engineer and if he was stuck for inspiration he would never have wasted time watching bloody seagulls ! |
| 25 | I have , in my capacity as Senior Anatomical Pathology Technician , been called upon to collect and look at bones discovered in various places , i.e. sealed behind walls , found in shallow graves , fields , etc. and so it was that a few years ago I became very interested in some questions of osteology . |
| 26 | For instance , a few years ago I studied paul Simon 's music quite extensively . |
| 27 | A few years ago I wanted to invest in a new spindle moulder . |
| 28 | I usually make my own curtains but a few years ago I decided to make use of a free making-up service offered by a large department store . |
| 29 | When I read Mary Gordon 's Final Payments a few years ago I shuddered with relief at having broken the spell of what had been wished on me . |
| 30 | ‘ A few years ago I gave a lecture at Preston Polytechnic and afterwards nine black girls , some of them with toddlers , stayed behind and we began to talk . |