Example sentences of "a few years [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Within a few years most chemists had adopted the anti-phlogistic theory . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They were just what their case needed , and for a few years these texts became the foundation of the Canterbury case . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A small drapers , ‘ Palmers ’ , was next door but after a few years this became a Baby Wear shop . |
| 8 | After a few years this scheme was pronounced a failure . |
| 9 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
| 10 | in a few years this er , they 're not building houses so these houses are gon na go , rocket again |
| 11 | 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 . |