Example sentences of "few more years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry had thought of taking this line , but the trouble was , he found , one became almost too jolly at Donald 's expense , the implication being that he , the jammy bastard , was well off out of it , while they , the real sufferers , were condemned to a few more years of the horrors of living in Wimbledon . |
| 2 | If we have a few more years of Georgian finance , the only attractive , the only lucrative profession left in this country will be that of a Radical Welsh politician . " |
| 3 | ‘ Mandy , getting my career off the ground is a challenge that is going to take a few more years of my undivided attention . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll play a few more years for sure . |
| 5 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 6 | Whilst it was many centuries before flint sickles were replaced with iron scythes and reap hooks , it was only a few more years before reapers , when self binders and then combines were introduced . |
| 7 | God willing , I should like a few more years in which to settle my own account . |
| 8 | Stuart bellowed his words as if answering a court-martial and failure to enunciate perfectly at top volume would earn him a few more years in the glasshouse . |
| 9 | A few more years like 1992 and IBM will be plain out of business . |