Example sentences of "within [art] few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , if excavations do not take place the cemetery and its treasures are likely to be destroyed by ploughing within a few years . |
| 2 | But , as Action on Smoking and Health predicted that within a few years the majority of companies will have smoking policies , Roger Stubbs , deputy managing director of MORI , warned a confrontation is looming between ‘ green consumers ’ and ‘ smoking civil libertarians ’ who insist aggressively on their right to smoke in public places or at work . |
| 3 | Within a few years we will see the majority of UK companies having smoking policies . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ His former students will within a few years of graduation be earning a salary twice that of his , ’ the report says . |
| 5 | Yet , within a few years , the whole affair had degenerated into a foodies ' free-for-all . |
| 6 | ( More often than not they are women , since many elderly male refugees from East African have died within a few years of coming to Britain . ) |
| 7 | A short cork is perfectly adequate for a wine destined to be drunk within a few years . |
| 8 | Despite predictions from the FFA that drift-netting would bring about the collapse of albacore stocks within a few years , the Japanese delegation steadfastly refused to make any concessions . |
| 9 | Within a few years he could have looked almost as menacing as he did six months ago . |
| 10 | If the pattern holds , Europe will have thriving private-placement markets within a few years . |
| 11 | But it was also the beginning of the split between law-abiders and law-breakers which was to cripple the movement within a few years and lead to its decline . |
| 12 | It should also be credited with the fact that within a few years very little more was heard from politicians about the importance of the much-vaunted ‘ British independent nuclear deterrent ’ against which CND had originally campaigned . |
| 13 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
| 14 | There was a genuine dilemma and conservatives like Spurgeon could , if they had wanted , cite a famous precedent : St Francis of Assisi never disguised his hostility towards learning yet , within a few years of his death , his new Order was dominating much of Europe 's University life . |
| 15 | In most cases the hereditary wardens and foresters of fee , or their heirs , were able within a few years to recover their bailiwicks by payment of substantial fines to the Crown . |
| 16 | Peter Hall and Trevor Nunn made their reputations within a few years of leaving Cambridge . |
| 17 | Within a few years over 800 exchange lines and 300 private lines were in use operating from the new headquarters of the amalgamated telephone companies , the National Telephone Company Headquarters at 13 Royal Exchange Square . |
| 18 | Many Glaswegians were to join the International Brigade within a few years , Scots like James Robertson Justice , pointing rifles upwards at the Heinkel 111 and Junkers 52 of Adolf Hitler 's Luftwaffe . |
| 19 | This was the first record of contact with a physic garden on the continent and so , within a few years , the Apothecaries ' garden had established itself in botanical circles . |
| 20 | Conceivably the entire lake could die within a few years . |
| 21 | Yet within a few years she won the County Bronze and Silver Championships in two successive seasons , almost certainly a unique feat . |
| 22 | Within a few years it had 200 local groups , had organized the first London rally against nuclear power ( in 1977 ) , and had effectively intervened in the debate about British nuclear policy . |
| 23 | The company was set up by Mr W.C. Dann and , within a few years , had a workforce of over a hundred . |
| 24 | Within a few years both Port and Brimscombe Mills were again run together , by P.C. Evans and Sons . |
| 25 | Its equipment was removed within a few years and , by the late 1920s , it had become home to the Belvedere Upholstery Company , operated by the Tyler family . |
| 26 | Within a few years , references to Daniel disappear , and by 1814 the company was operating under the name of Jeremiah Day and Co . |
| 27 | Within a few years , he had sold on to George Ford , in whose family the mill remained for over 30 years . |
| 28 | Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops . |
| 29 | Within a few years Dunkirk Mills was under the control , although not in the complete ownership of Peter Playne , of a long-established clothier family of Flemish descent . |
| 30 | The latter part of the decade saw St Owens Mill start up , followed within a few years by the Island Street and Victoria Street Mills , Luker also involved with the latter . |