Example sentences of "a few years [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in . |
| 2 | Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’ |
| 3 | Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it . |
| 4 | It 's closing down … declared a fire safety risk … only a few years after it was reopened . |
| 5 | A most unforeseen occurrence cut short the Revd Dr William Dodd 's participation in this crusade when , a few years after he wrote his Account , he was charged with the capital offence of forgery . |
| 6 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 7 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
| 8 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 9 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 10 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 11 | If , by any chance , you have a way of passing on messages to Frank ( via the supporters club maybe ) — Im sure all of us wish him the best … and hope to see him back here at Leeds in a few years so he can be 1st choice . |
| 12 | Chief Black Moon and a thousand braves attacked the station at Huntly , Montana , only a few years before they were appearing in a more peaceable guise there . |
| 13 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 14 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 15 | To me it was all familiar ( why , only a few years before I 'd danced there with a stiff-backed medical student by the name of Achille Flaubert ) . |
| 16 | Every nation believes that its enemies were the aggressors , and may make war again in a few years unless they are utterly defeated . |
| 17 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 18 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 19 | It was just a fantasy I nurtured for a few years as I puffed and panted my way through the ten-foots and alleyways of downtown Hull . |
| 20 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 21 | As one of the first members recalled , ‘ When we reached thirteen most of us felt we were too big for the Sunday School , and there was a gap of a few years until we were able to join the YMCA at seventeen … |