Example sentences of "of years [adv] a " in BNC.
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1 | By 1953 , the refusal that such dressiness displayed had spread to a hitherto unexpected and unexplained location : the working-class boys and girls who , congregating around various London centres , had assumed what had been up until a couple of years previously a homosexual style , the Edwardian Look . |
2 | A couple of years previously a letter had been sent to Keswick suggesting as much . |
3 | Walking past Bull Pot of the Witches was a sad occasion for me , as a couple of years ago a very fine caver friend of mine died while diving Bull Pot . |
4 | As I say I , a couple of years ago an authority did do that , it swapped . |
5 | Within a couple of years only a few hundred of them survived . |