Example sentences of "a [adj] years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local information suggests that it was occasionally worked for a few years after this , but by the 1950s had stopped completely . |
| 2 | We had tourist visitors of every age and family , and some quaint scenes were witnessed on the upgoing — many of the native children ( and one who in a few years after might be called an old man ) found it a profitable , and I doubt not , too , a pleasurable work , leading the tourists to the top . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 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 | It 's closing down … declared a fire safety risk … only a few years after it was reopened . |
| 10 | Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Moreover , Dudek had taken his doctorate at Columbia , and Federico Garçia Lorca had studied there a few years before Leonard was born . |
| 15 | His Test debut had come against India in 1978–9 aged only twenty , but , with so many other top bowlers in competition , it was a few years before his place was secure . |
| 16 | The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark , a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable . |
| 17 | As it happens , in the early days of computers it was thought that it would be only a few years before computers would be able to understand natural language . |
| 18 | Jenner had begun to make use of cowpox for human vaccination in 1798 , but it would be a few years before its use was widespread , and 1840 before it was available free . |
| 19 | ‘ It took a few years before one saw that the contact with , and knowledge of , industry , the dialogue , needed to be restored . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Only a few years before alcohol prohibition was repealed in the United States in 1933 , public sentiment was similarly dominated by the opinions of the country 's prohibitionist leaders . |
| 22 | Dad died a few years before that — I 'm not sure when . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Heinrich and Martha walked through this world , which was fated to last only a few years before the spell was broken , like a prince and princess . |
| 26 | The Matson Sentinel had died , too , just a few years before and the bound copies of its back numbers were also in the library . |
| 27 | He won a £20,000 prize for the invention just a few years before he died in 1776 at the age of 83 . |
| 28 | Every nation believes that its enemies were the aggressors , and may make war again in a few years unless they are utterly defeated . |
| 29 | Within a few years that same young man had determined that things could be put right and that he was the man to do it . |
| 30 | I vote that this a good point other activities for the County Council in a few years that you that you will find er people anxious to support , thank you gentlemen |