Example sentences of "for [adv] a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 2 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 3 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 4 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 5 | We went with Alec for quite a few years , and sometimes Mother would come too . |
| 6 | I got the impression that Uncle Phil lived with Meli for quite a few years in in Brighton for a couple of years before she died . |
| 7 | Hayes Machine Knitting Club has been running for quite a few years now and welcomes new members . |
| 8 | Right erm now that 's understandable er even , even members who get stuff posted directly such as , you know , we 've had a direct mailing system for quite a few years now , when you meet them you say what about I do n't know what you 're talking about ? |
| 9 | I 've been a carer for quite a few years now , until recently , when my grandmother died . |
| 10 | I had worked as an assistant in Mothercare for quite a few years , so I took out a discount card with them when I was pregnant and I bought everything there at 20 per cent discount . |
| 11 | Dave said : ‘ I have been raising money for charities at Bidds for quite a few years . |
| 12 | As the appliances will be used for quite a few years , perhaps under changing circumstances as couples have children , it 's important to look ahead and not just buy the cheapest model to save a few pounds . |
| 13 | To be fair most of us were P C's for quite a few years without radios and we worked out extremely well did n't we , without those radios |
| 14 | I mean to our children , although they 've been away from Butchwana for quite a few years now it 's still home |
| 15 | It used to be in Bournemouth , they had it at Bournemouth for quite a few years . |
| 16 | I think I 've sat is those auditorium seats in the same format for quite a few years now . |
| 17 | Pauline Dungate has been working in the church for quite a few years , and she knows the man who lives in the cemetery from time to time . |