Example sentences of "a [adj] years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father encouraged her desire to learn navigation and other aspects of seamanship , and after a few years her proficiency was obvious to everyone who sailed with her . |
| 2 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 3 | In a few years her shame , and she herself , would be forgotten . |
| 4 | In a few years their needs were very different , the young one needed to be in bed and the older one wanted to play music with his friends . |
| 5 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 6 | And now what they 're saying is , well we 'll buy out those appeals , if you had your appeal running for a few years we 'll give you five hundred pound ex gratia payment . |
| 7 | In the space of a few years we had Eldon Square in Newcastle , the Cleveland Centre in Middlesbrough , Milburngate in Durham , where you could stroll heedless of weather and traffic . |
| 8 | Certainly over the years the the major proportion of our fire fighting , in terms of secondary fires , what we term secondary fires , the bonfires , was always concentrated around this period and going back quite a few years we used to have special appliances put on standby , extra crews and so on . |
| 9 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
| 10 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 11 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 12 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 13 | We decided to draw our internal auditors from operational staff across the board so that over a few years everyone would have the opportunity to be an auditor as well as being audited themselves . |
| 14 | The first adult Scout troop formed was the 1st Duke of Grafton 's Own ( Clapham St. Bede 's ) which was formed in 1913 , and within a few years there were also Scouters and Guiders established in London at West Ham , Green Lanes ( St. John of Beverley 's ) , North Clapham and Stoke Newington . |
| 15 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 16 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 17 | He used to say that in a few years his uncle would retire ; then he would be in control . ’ |
| 18 | Bourdieu 's articles on markets preceded by a few years his pieces on ‘ fields ’ . |
| 19 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 20 | Within a few years it was the Guns Mill Paper Company . |
| 21 | Within a few years it had evolved into the ASEA , and by 1909 there were seventeen affiliated committees in London and ten in the provinces . |
| 22 | For a few years it would undoubtedly be more expensive to cable Britain with optical-fibre links directly into the home . |
| 23 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
| 24 | And for a few years it had just about done so . |
| 25 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 26 | For a few years it has a monopoly in world markets and a good order book . |
| 27 | League is concerned , is the amount of money coming into the game and the danger that over a few years it could widen the division between the haves and the have-nots . |
| 28 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 29 | After a few years he was able to believe that guilt itself was an indulgence , that he did n't need to suffer it unless he chose . |
| 30 | In a few years he 'll have developed a big enough ass to occupy my chair . ’ |