Example sentences of "a few years [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few years firm and formal contacts with the Board of Education had been established . |
| 2 | Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops . |
| 3 | Within a few years other reformers , including Wilberforce and Clarkson , recognised that their belief in virtually automatic improvement in the population and condition of slaves was naïve . |
| 4 | The grim alternative is that in a few years many more specialties will be in the position of thoracic medicine and more junior doctors will spend even longer in the training grades . |
| 5 | Within a few years four species of Plasmodium had been recognized , responsible for clinically distinct variants of malaria . |
| 6 | Just a few years younger , the Pullman Astoria still looks as grand as when Churchill stayed there , though the neighbourhood has certainly lost some of its sparkle ( Upper Town , 103 Rue Royale , telephone 02/2176290 , cost 6,000 fr ) . |
| 7 | Sadly , the old bitches his mother lined up were only a few years younger than him . |
| 8 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 9 | On the mantelshelf behind him there was a photograph of a pretty , smiling , dark-haired woman , a boy of about ten and a girl a few years younger . |
| 10 | It was difficult to believe that she was only a few years younger than his mother ; both mentally and physically she belonged to a different generation . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I think a few years younger . ’ |
| 12 | Although his friend must be a few years younger than Alice , he was fancy-free , and Alice was so lovely to look at these days , the age difference would n't be noticed . |
| 13 | ‘ If I was a few years younger , I 'd be a hooker , ’ said Constance , stretching . |
| 14 | What a shame that Andy Nicol is not a few years younger , for he too showed himself to be of world class in last year 's celebration of New Zealand 's centenary , when he played for the World XV in Christchurch . |
| 15 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
| 16 | Within a few years most chemists had adopted the anti-phlogistic theory . |
| 17 | Within a few years most of its nominal 100 ships of the line were unfit for sea , although by 1770 a new conflict with Spain over the Falkland Islands seemed likely . |
| 18 | They were just what their case needed , and for a few years these texts became the foundation of the Canterbury case . |
| 19 | Within a few years some observers even began to sense in his reforms the triumph of capitalism over Communism , in that the USSR seemed to be adopting Western methods . |
| 20 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
| 21 | After a few years this scheme was pronounced a failure . |
| 22 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
| 23 | in a few years this er , they 're not building houses so these houses are gon na go , rocket again |
| 24 | However , complete accuracy is not important , as a few years either way make little difference to its value or collectability ; placing it in the right quarter of the appropriate century will nearly always suffice . |
| 25 | In practice , the vast majority of reported offences of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl of 16 involve young men of a similar age or a few years older , and the general trend is to administer a formal caution to such persons rather than to prosecute them . |
| 26 | ‘ I would hate it to go down in Conservative mythology that we always had to have a gaggle of young men running every campaign , ’ he said , ‘ although if we had the same bunch at the next election at least they 'd be a few years older . ’ |
| 27 | Peter was a few years older and shared David 's passion for gambling and the good things in life . |
| 28 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 29 | ( If her son enters when he is a few years older , he will surely be unique in being able to say he has been taking part since before he was born . ) |
| 30 | Now 43 , he 's a few years older than Super Mario who made his screen debut in a 1980 arcade game . |