Example sentences of "few years [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in the past few years long term nursing care beds in the NHS have been progressively reduced and district health authorities have made little effort to improve their remaining accommodation . |
| 2 | In the last few years many policy analysts , professional organizations , charitable bodies and government-funded bodies have made recommendations on how the NHS and local authority structures should be changed in order to develop community care more effectively . |
| 3 | Within a few years that mill housed a gig mill , four fulling stocks , as well as picking , shearing and press shops . |
| 4 | Many codecs already developed are designed to be upgradeable when such standards become widely accepted and it is therefore likely that within a few years dial-up videoconferencing will be possible between a wide range of different proprietary systems . |
| 5 | However , complete accuracy is not important , as a few years either way make little difference to its value or collectability ; placing it in the right quarter of the appropriate century will nearly always suffice . |
| 6 | Over the past few years foreign telephone companies , and the Baby Bells , have been snapping up stakes in newly privatised telephone companies in New Zealand , Mexico and Argentina , and mobile-telephone franchises even in rich countries such as Britain and Germany . |
| 7 | It is therefore no surprise that local opposition to the LDDC has continued for over eight years now , even though the first chairman of the LDDC , Nigel Broackes of Trafalgar House , predicted that within a few years local opposition ‘ will not exist ’ . |
| 8 | The structure of this is interesting as over the last few years most software house have added default actions , verbs or options to their interface — Sierra have almost taken the opposite course by simplifying their system which now has a basic choice of some half a dozen actions . |
| 9 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
| 10 | After a few years this scheme was pronounced a failure . |
| 11 | In the last few years this pattern has ceased as most papers carry these reports and , curiously , the News of the World has nearly stopped . |