Example sentences of "of a [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not even the dehumanizing process of Soviet medical training could eradicate the myths and legends of a thousand years of Russian Christianity . |
| 2 | Others want it to become a museum , preserving forever a taste of a thousand years of incarceration |
| 3 | As a personal evaluation of a hundred years of Jewish-Greek contacts this was a remarkable statement . |
| 4 | Marine and Quaternary Geology : This group is concerned with the study of fundamental physical , chemical and biological processes which enable Quaternary climatic and environmental changes and their causes to be inferred on timescales of a million years to less than one year . |
| 5 | His spoken English was perfect , as was his comprehension , the result of a few years at Oxford studying languages — four in all . |
| 6 | An early hostility to capitalist oppression and a refusal to contemplate co-operation with social democratic reformers was transformed in the space of a few years into a wide-ranging crusade against fascism in which geniune sympathisers of whatever creed were welcome participants . |
| 7 | Seismic data were returned to Earth over a period of a few years from these five stations , though they were reduced to four when the Apollo 11 station stopped working . |
| 8 | For one thing , the war was only a matter of a few years in the past and the number of potential suitors must have been severely limited , especially of the right intellect and calibre . |
| 9 | There was never a more astonishing Revolution accomplished in the internal system of any country than there has been within the compass of a few years in that of England … |