Example sentences of "a few years [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate for waggoning increased and in a few years up to about 11/ per 100 kibbles was paid for ore brought out to the Bonsor Mill . |
| 2 | Modigliani saw the potential of the boy , who ironically became Beatrice 's lover within a few years when he was 18 and she was over 40 . |
| 3 | There followed a few years when the situation looked bright . |
| 4 | I went to listen to him at the methodist church at er Newark about Oh quite a few years when |
| 5 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 6 | ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’ |
| 7 | I can just imagine what it 's gon na look like in a few years when it gets |
| 8 | But let's see what she 'll be a few years hence . |
| 9 | To him a few years ago : You are my finest invention . |
| 10 | Her view reflected a time when mustard was enjoying a vogue similar to that enjoyed by flavoured vinegars a few years ago . |
| 11 | I was given a cutting a few years ago by my sister and have subsequently passed on cuttings but have never known the proper name of it or much about it . |
| 12 | A few years ago I wanted to invest in a new spindle moulder . |
| 13 | Until a few years ago most wood dyes tended to fade in strong sunlight , but now many of them contain transparent iron oxides , which do not fade and can be used on interior and exterior woodwork . |
| 14 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 15 | A few years ago , as part of an annual round-up of critical books for Encounter , I reviewed an interestingly speculative work on modern fiction by an American academic . |
| 16 | It was sounded a few years ago by Helen Gardner in In Defence of the Imagination , by the contributors to Laurence Lerner 's Reconstructing Literature , and in America by Gerald Graff 's Literature Against Itself ( Graff 's position has shifted somewhat in his more recent Professing Literature ) . |
| 17 | The CRL tackled this problem a few years ago , developing ice-lined refrigerators : tubes of water surrounding the fridge compartment freeze ; if the power fails , the tubes keep the vaccines cool until all the ice has melted . |
| 18 | I paid a Hackney second-hand dealer £100 a few years ago for seven black plastic bags of documents dating back to the seventeenth century — the contents of tin trunks removed from the basement of a firm of solicitors . |
| 19 | ‘ A few years ago few officials spoke about it , ’ says Professor Lutz Krauskopf , the president of the Swiss committee on special legislation on money laundering . |
| 20 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 21 | He continued to work until a few years ago and from then on passed much of his time in London . |
| 22 | While he may not be collecting as actively as he was a few years ago , his name still inspires sufficient awe in most art world people for them to request complete anonymity when discussing him . |
| 23 | Emergency wanted A few years ago I wrote a little book called Discovering Backpacking . |
| 24 | So there are some new facets to catering in the RAF today compared with even a few years ago . |
| 25 | The only difference between Tina Turner today and a few years ago is her material . |
| 26 | For instance , a few years ago I studied paul Simon 's music quite extensively . |
| 27 | Prefacing Huckleberry Finn ( first read ‘ a few years ago ’ ) in 1950 , Eliot recalled his own boyhood . |
| 28 | So it was with some surprise a few years ago that our attention was drawn from the dull French film noir onscreen to the back of the cinema , where a couple were resolving a lovers ' squabble . |
| 29 | A few years ago you wrote about the merits of sarkandas reed as a waggler material . |
| 30 | He remembers driving up the road a few years ago and accosting a stranger who was dabbling in a stream with what looked like a frying-pan . |