Example sentences of "of [adv] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the space of only a few years , they regularly flitted around Manchester . |
| 2 | It is particularly appropriate for young patients with diabetes of only a few years ' duration and without complications . |
| 3 | Yet within the space of only a few years , all this optimism , not for the first time , was in tatters — against a world backdrop that was also changing : the waning of American economic strength ; the rise of Japan ; the rapid expansion of decolonialisation ; new superpower hostility with the Cuban missile crisis ; the slowing down of economic growth and indications of problems to come . |
| 4 | But any minister of even a few years ' experience of Christian leadership will be able to tell you of Godly issues which were debated in his Church with a bitterness and rancour totally out of harmony with their subject . |
| 5 | ‘ Those men are his friends of quite a few years … ’ |