Example sentences of "a [det] years they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give or take a few years they are contemporaries , and yet historically people place Brian Way very much earlier . |
| 2 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 3 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 4 | There was a lovely tree outside old Boots shop there they took all them away and put these little ones down the middle and I also brought it up when they did Weekday Cross they took the trees which had only been there a few years they took them all down and put put some others up some little twiggly things you know . |
| 5 | For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided them by even a single strike . |
| 6 | Apart from the ‘ Hands off Russia ’ campaign of 1920 he feels that the British working class had never thought or acted internationally and , ‘ For two and a half years they watched their comrades in Spain slowly strangled , and never aided even with a single strike . ’ |
| 7 | In the course of three and a half years they were able to recover over fourteen thousand ounces of gold , three quarters of it fine , from the single cemetery of Sinú . |