Example sentences of "only a [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a hundred years ago , costmary could be found in almost any cottage garden , in fact in most gardens throughout Britain . |
| 2 | This process , which can take several decades in open country , may be contrived in only a few years in a garden by reversing the natural scheme of things . |
| 3 | Normal tissue paper , like most paper , contains acid which encourages fading and decay , including the gradual yellowing of white fabrics , a process which may be seen after only a few years . |
| 4 | Society responds with oppression , which it justifies by again invoking myths , scriptures ( quoted or misquoted ) and proverbs , some ancient and some only a few years old , thrown up by the needs of everyday life . |
| 5 | In addition , he has pursued his own passion for the painted interior decoration of this particular kind and scale of East Anglian yeoman farmhouse — a type of house that , only a few years ago , was hardly considered worthy of notice , so complete was the obsession of historians with work by named architects . |
| 6 | Where tropical forest grew only a few years ago , a vast desert is now rapidly engulfing inland Brazil spreading at a rate of several miles a year . |
| 7 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 8 | What appeared an important strand in forward-looking European defence planning only a few years ago — when the new Europe sought a measure of independence from the US defence umbrella — looks more questionable now . |
| 9 | A poll showed that Mr Da Silva won it , burying the myth that as an ex-factory worker with only a few years schooling he is unqualified for the presidency . |
| 10 | Hence the burgeoning popularity of the Bharatiya Janata Party : a fringe party of Hindu extremists only a few years ago , it looks as though it could be part of a government after the election . |
| 11 | Economists and politicians are already celebrating the disappearance of these huge external imbalances — even those who only a few years ago claimed that current-account deficits did not matter . |
| 12 | Rightly , because there was no easy link to be made and only a few years previously the best criminologists were explaining the increase in crime as an inevitable consequence of prosperity . |
| 13 | Sadly , the old bitches his mother lined up were only a few years younger than him . |
| 14 | At present , the executive takes decisions to release some murderers after only a few years and to keep others in prison for extremely long periods . |
| 15 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 16 | Within only a few years the company was exporting its products to central Europe , Russia and the US . |
| 17 | The people which only a few years previously had committed brutal genocide and waged a terrible war of destruction suddenly found themselves in the role of the great advocate of justice . |
| 18 | Yet only a few years later , the Royal Commission of 1954–1957 recommended radical changes with a new policy of community integration . |
| 19 | Are these words to use about an ally you stood shoulder to shoulder with only a few years back ? ’ |
| 20 | She and Herbert had enjoyed only a few years of happiness together . |
| 21 | In the space of only a few years , they regularly flitted around Manchester . |
| 22 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 23 | It is particularly appropriate for young patients with diabetes of only a few years ' duration and without complications . |
| 24 | With the addition of the large numbers of children and teenagers who have had only a few years of schooling , rates of illiteracy of well over 50 per cent seem entirely credible ( see Chapter 16 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The fact is , ’ he went on , ‘ there are only a few years remaining for your Aunt Emily and myself . |
| 26 | He did however , have a fateful attraction for some of the ladies as he delivered the bread , for as a result the partnership of Shipsey and Sheppard lasted only a few years . |
| 27 | AVCs are a very efficient way of saving , especially if you have only a few years to go before you retire . |
| 28 | It has now been restored to a superb family home by the present Lord and Lady Feversham and it is hard to imagine that only a few years ago the house was little more than an empty , echoing shell . |
| 29 | As it happens , in the early days of computers it was thought that it would be only a few years before computers would be able to understand natural language . |
| 30 | His geographically-based nomenclature was however superseded by that devised only a few years later by Giovanni Riccioli , a Jesuit priest . |