Example sentences of "few years [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |
| 2 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 3 | Payments terminated on 31 May 1753 , but evidently no ill feeling marred the end of Miller 's contract as a few years later he dedicated to the Duke the beautiful Figures of Plants ( 2 vols. ) which had been published in parts from 1755–60 . |
| 4 | A few years later he discovered , to his fury , that the painters ' prices had soared and the paintings that he despised would have been immensely valuable . |
| 5 | But a few years later he was up and ready to go to Ulster . |
| 6 | ( A few years later he was to complain about Eden wearing himself out by this frivolity . ) |
| 7 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |
| 8 | A few years later he accepted it himself . |
| 9 | A few years later he was accused of having speculated on the Paris Bourse , using official information . |
| 10 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 11 | In the late seventeenth century he came to India , gained a prominent post in the Imperial army and married into the Mughal aristocracy ; a few years later he succeeded his father-in-law as Nawab ( Governor ) of Oudh . |
| 12 | And then the next time , a few years later he 'd got it back |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A few years later I told him how much I loved his way of telling stories . |
| 15 | I got quite good ones actually cos I got two children next to each other and a few years later I got them to do it again but I do n't know if I can find them all . |
| 16 | A few years later it would be Elizabeth 's brother Samuel who would step into the breach at a time of crisis , as we shall see , but in 1808 it was Thomas Hasted , as the newly-weds skirted round the northern edge of the Tower and established themselves just inside the parish of St Mary Whitechapel . |
| 17 | A few years later it 's chocs away for Rovers ' new regime at Wolves on Saturday . |
| 18 | Somebody said , well a few years later it was Charles Manson and I said , who ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yes a few years ago yu were seen as a weirdo |
| 21 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 22 | ‘ Only a few years ago they were plenty of colliers playing rugby in Wales . |
| 23 | These are the new boys on the stylish restaurant scene — a few years ago they were few and far between . |
| 24 | Companies are keen to adopt the ‘ open ’ moniker simply for that purpose : how many suppliers these days describe themselves as open systems companies , when just a few years ago they would probably have sneered at the term . |
| 25 | Indonesia has large industries , recently developed in the country , and are exporting large quantities to saw mills , whereas a few years ago they were exporting to lots , they are now exporting saw wood and ply wood . |
| 26 | ‘ A few years ago we realised we had lost our way , ’ says The Economist UK marketing manager Chantal Hughes . |
| 27 | ‘ A few years ago we 'd be down the piano bar listening to … ’ |
| 28 | A few years ago we had rows all the time about politics but more recently we kept off the subject most of the time . |
| 29 | A few years ago we bought a company called who manufacture all the filters that we use . |
| 30 | A few years ago we hoped that a footpath would have been incorporated in the flood protection scheme . |