Example sentences of "but a few years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The V8 was put on ice when Lotus went through one of its regular periods of financial cramp in 1981 — but a few years later its key features were sold to GM in the shape of the LT5 engine for the Corvette ZR1 . |
| 2 | At the time he said never again , but a few years have gone by and he has a different perception . |
| 3 | But a few years later , in 1970 the Hawker Siddeley management decided to shift the production of the robots to Hawker Siddeley 's factory in Lostock , Lancashire . |
| 4 | I usually make my own curtains but a few years ago I decided to make use of a free making-up service offered by a large department store . |
| 5 | But a few years later he was up and ready to go to Ulster . |
| 6 | Haines assured me that everything at his end would remain secret , but a few years later I was both surprised and vexed to find that he had retailed the story in his memoirs without any indication of his pledge of confidentiality . |
| 7 | Somewhere there would be a tutor waiting to see him — some easy-going , amiable man , not old , but a few years older than himself , with whom he could drink sherry on slightly deferential terms , and to whom he could apply for permission to hold parties , keep a car , and ride to hounds . |
| 8 | But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short . |
| 9 | Akroyd Stuart was elected a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1901 , but a few years previously he had emigrated to Australia , where he involved himself in the design and manufacture of the Akroyd patent down-draught gas producer . |
| 10 | New agers are a little vague about how the Age of Aquarius actually happened , but a few years ago , at the end of the selfish age of Pisces , there was , according to Margo , ’ a lot of planetary alignment ’ . |
| 11 | But a few years now . |
| 12 | But a few years ago , there 's no way Ray and his leggy friends would have been flatmates . |
| 13 | But a few years ago we were at a session in a pub one night erm playing music and er there was about twenty of us and about two o'clock in the morning the police raided it and we all had our names taken and we were all up in court and we were all fined I think three pound for being er drinking after hours and Tony was drinking a cup of coffee . |