Example sentences of "a [adj] years [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | observed in the Anton Piller case that orders should ‘ rarely ’ be made , within a few years Goulding J. remarked that ‘ such is the proven efficiency of that type of order and such is the extent of dishonest trading in this country at the present time , that it is a matter of weekly occurrence and sometimes of daily occurrence for the Chancery Division ’ to make such orders , which are also regularly made in the Queen 's Bench Division . |
| 2 | In the course of a few years Hider had managed to undo a thousand-year-long German expansion eastwards . |
| 3 | Within a few years Dunkirk Mills was under the control , although not in the complete ownership of Peter Playne , of a long-established clothier family of Flemish descent . |
| 4 | ‘ Margaret I hope you do n't mind my saying this , but are n't you forgetting that in a few years Dickie 'll be grown up ? |
| 5 | But within a few years Browne 's fortunes were restored : he acquired monopolies of the manufacture and sales of both iron and bronze ordnance , as well as iron pots , kettles , chimney backs , and iron weights ‘ in the French manner ’ . |
| 6 | His success was short-lived and within a few years Ivan had to accept Turkish suzerainty . |
| 7 | For two and a half years Peggy Kirby has needed to use a kidney machine . |
| 8 | Over the next four and a half years Burton , like a young shark eating all before it , devoured the sport , the small-town adventure life , the clubs and choirs and outings available . |
| 9 | Even more puzzling is why , throughout the five and a half years Blake was in Wormwood Scrubs , no action was taken to move him to a more secure establishment . |
| 10 | Within a dozen years Philadelphia , its capital , was among the half-dozen largest English towns in North America and , although it had a population of only a few thousand people , very few towns in England apart from London were much larger . |