Example sentences of "a [adj] years we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 6 | So you could say for exactly a hundred years we 've had a basic law designed to give us rights every time we go shopping . |