Example sentences of "few years [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property . |
| 2 | Later , Margaret stopped playing for a few years so she could concentrate on squash but three years ago she returned to the sport and now plays outside hitter for the Balerno team . |
| 3 | ‘ The plant has been neglected for a few years so I thought I 'd give it some plant food and water and to my astonishment this was the result , ’ said Margaret . |
| 4 | If , by any chance , you have a way of passing on messages to Frank ( via the supporters club maybe ) — Im sure all of us wish him the best … and hope to see him back here at Leeds in a few years so he can be 1st choice . |
| 5 | In the few years that followed , Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing . |
| 6 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 7 | IT HAS become clear these past few years that London 's investment houses are rather worse at managing their own affairs than their clients ' . |
| 8 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 9 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 10 | It was over the next few years that he started to produce his finest work . |
| 11 | In the few years that followed , it is unlikely that you would get back as much as you paid in . |
| 12 | Although the pied flycatcher 's adultery has been known about since 1950 , it is only in the last few years that the scientist Rauno Alatalo and his colleagues , studying pied flycatchers in Sweden , have begun to unravel the finer details . |
| 13 | In this climate , it was only within these last few years that serious restoration work was initiated . |
| 14 | And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better . |
| 15 | Within a few years that same young man had determined that things could be put right and that he was the man to do it . |
| 16 | Such has been the rate of change in the last few years that the 1981 Census has become woefully outdated . |
| 17 | However , as you know , you must be very , very careful with the few years that remain to you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The few years that remain to me ? |
| 19 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 20 | There are likely to be a number of crucial calculations within the next few years that have the possibility of showing that the theory is no good . |
| 21 | And to eat there — how she longed to , to drop the few years that made her different from Cad , to lose the ripeness and rotundities that would always make her different from Cati , who was , really , almost boy-like with her stringbean limbs , yet not quite boyish either , angelic rather ; she was not afflicted with the need Rosa felt , the gap opening inside her , where a longing for something other than what lay within her sights sat in occupation , banging her drum and marking out a new rhythm and new steps for Rosa 's spinning wants , calling down the corridors of Rosa 's body to her innermost inguinal life , till her blood rang to the beat . |
| 22 | The impression has been strengthened in the past few years that macro-economic developments and policies are now essentially international in character . |
| 23 | It is only in the past few years that a good understanding of these types of collision has emerged , and it is only a year since Tiesinga et al . |
| 24 | I vote that this a good point other activities for the County Council in a few years that you that you will find er people anxious to support , thank you gentlemen |
| 25 | He he 's arguing I think on a basis of , of the experience of the past few years that the situation now in China was a , was a rather variable one , that land reform had proceeded at different rates in different areas and because areas where different that had to be taken into account and Mao explicitly was going back to the idea that in the newly liberated areas the policy would be one of rent reduction , interest rate reduction and that rent and interest rate reduction had to be established for some time until the position had consolidated around rent reduction , around interest rate reduction and once that had happened you would then be able to go into land reform itself . |
| 26 | Well Mr never been before at least I 've done it for the first few years that I was there . |
| 27 | It is just a few years since the club — whose anthem was : ‘ We are Millwall . |
| 28 | It is a good few years since most of them were serving , and the memories will soon be flooding back . |
| 29 | So she knew that in the few years since she had last been in England great changes had begun to take place from some of which she might clearly benefit . |
| 30 | Although a few years since Sunday Caddies were mentioned , they were still controversial , and in 1925 the Harpsden Parish Church of St Margaret sought to ban them under 14 years of age , so as to improve the chances of their attending Sunday School and Church . |