Example sentences of "just a [det] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just a few years since the club — whose anthem was : ‘ We are Millwall . |
| 2 | In just a few years , Chilean fishermen have inflicted damage on dolphin stocks which will take decades , if not centuries , to repair . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | And when it is burnt in large amounts , then the CO 2 that was taken up in the ancient world over a period of , say , a million years , may be released into the modern world in just a few years . |
| 5 | Built just a few years ago it looks battle-scarred by usage and needs a good smartening up . |
| 6 | Unseasoned and untreated timber , very frequently used in the ‘ sixties and early ‘ seventies in windows and doors , will rot in just a few years . |
| 7 | They would not have been contemplated just a few years ago . |
| 8 | At the age of 20 , Gedge was willing to placate his parents by taking on such a squalid job , but just a few years later , he was more than prepared to stand up to their well-intentioned pressure . |
| 9 | Gedge recognises the irony of now being part of the property owning class he opposed just a few years ago . |
| 10 | Who would have thought , with all this talk of millions to be made by gene juggling , that just a few years ago genetic engineering was considered to be so dangerous that one small accident could unleash upon the world a virulent plague that would make the black death look like an outbreak of summer flu ? |
| 11 | On the tips it takes just a few years . |
| 12 | Even in our own lifetime , within just a few years , the destruction of the Earth 's natural forests , as well as man 's industry , is increasing the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide , so subtle is the balance . |
| 13 | Even the currently flourishing Pinnacle Distribution did a kamikaze act just a few years ago , decimating the indie scene . |
| 14 | Just a few years ago these beautiful creatures faced being clubbed to death by hunters , but thanks to pressure from wildlife organisations , they have been spared . |
| 15 | ‘ I was amazed , I could get to places with cameras which just a few years ago Russians would n't have been allowed to visit , ’ he said . |
| 16 | It dates from about 1390 BC , just a few years before the fall of the Labyrinth on the plain below . |
| 17 | But in just a few years computers have made many specialised tasks obsolete , enabling one person not only to do the work of many , but to do many different jobs at once . |
| 18 | Clarify , however , is positioning itself against the others as the most ‘ haute couture ’ of the breed , the kind of house that could easily mushroom into a $100m enterprise in just a few years . |
| 19 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 20 | Outcome in early treated subjects with phenylketonuria is not as good as was thought just a few years ago and is much more closely associated with the quality of blood phenylalanine control at all ages than previously recognised . |
| 21 | It was his soft eyes that had put her at ease the first time she met him , when she timidly knocked at his door just a few years ago , the evening when Fred employed a helper and found his future wife . |
| 22 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 23 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 24 | With LASMO producing around 185,000 barrels of oil equivalent every day of the year , our current revenues for the year are certainly lower than those anticipated just a few years ago . |
| 25 | There were two constables now in Frizingley , she 'd heard , since Sir Robert Peel had created his " peelers ' or his " bobbies ' as everybody was calling them , just a few years ago . |
| 26 | But it might be as well for those of you with just a few years to go before you have to repay your loan to check with your insurance company that there 's going to be enough in the kitty to repay it . |
| 27 | There were no hip replacements available just a few years ago . |
| 28 | Just a few years ago he complained about the exact opposite — that the provisions for the community charge in Scotland were in a separate Bill from those for England and Wales . |
| 29 | Some of them have been empty for the 20 years since they were built , others have been empty for just a few years . |
| 30 | To achieve industrial competitiveness normally requires decades of persistent activity , not just a few years , but it can be thrown away very quickly and very easily . |