Example sentences of "few years [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father encouraged her desire to learn navigation and other aspects of seamanship , and after a few years her proficiency was obvious to everyone who sailed with her . |
| 2 | In a few years her shame , and she herself , would be forgotten . |
| 3 | The last few years her mother had been waging a war on all vermin , including bed bugs . |
| 4 | Perhaps too the journey had reminded her of the dreadful certainty that within a few years her beauty would fade , and all these inflated hopes and fears had combined to produce a mood of abandon utterly foreign to her that had found its culmination in that jungle storm . |
| 5 | From 1926 to 1930 she shared her ideas about colour with the painter Christopher Wood and for those few years their work looked similar . |
| 6 | In a few years their needs were very different , the young one needed to be in bed and the older one wanted to play music with his friends . |
| 7 | In the last few years our understanding of pillow lavas has advanced dramatically , due almost entirely to some remarkable observations made by diver-geologists of pillow lavas actually in the process of formation in the sea off Hawaii . |
| 8 | During the last few years our strategy has been clearly focused on those businesses where we have significant competitive advantage . |
| 9 | This he did with such success that within the next few years his name became a byword throughout Spain . |
| 10 | He used to say that in a few years his uncle would retire ; then he would be in control . ’ |
| 11 | Captain French died in 1854 and within a few years his wife was confined to a mental home . |
| 12 | Bourdieu 's articles on markets preceded by a few years his pieces on ‘ fields ’ . |