Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | To be accepted as member there really would cap a memorable few years . |
| 2 | Since then I have spent a solid twenty years in the service , with posts at the U. K. Delegation to N. A. T. O. , Bonn , Peking , and now Oslo … |
| 3 | She will now return to the court on May 25 where she faces a possible two years in prison or an unlimited fine . |
| 4 | The offer , from ABC , came shortly after the last episode was screened and would have required him to make twenty-four programmes a year for a possible five years . |
| 5 | The Conservative Party , in various guises , was in government for eighteen out of a possible twenty-one years . |
| 6 | A scant 100 years before there had been none of these things , and the world was powered by horses and lit by candles . |
| 7 | He coughed , embarrassed and a little pompous , very much conscious of his new status as a father , while McLeish remembered that he was a scant four years older than the delinquent Tristram . |
| 8 | It is perhaps only incidental that one of the most distinguished fathers of modern political thought , Tom Paine , spent a turbulent six years in Lewes ; he came to the town in 1768 as an excise officer , a job he combined with a local tobacco business . |
| 9 | Pat Kennedy and Gordon Brailsford , regulars at the Arsenal Tavern , have supported the club for a combined 80 years and believe a swoop for Wimbledon pair Robbie Earle and Warren Barton is the answer . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ It 's been a fabulous two years for me at Leeds and the lack of goals has been my only disappointment . |
| 11 | By the end of the Palaeocene , only a few million years from the Cretaceous extinction of the giant reptiles , there were representatives of many of the living mammalian orders , including , for example , the primates ( the order to which man belongs ) , the carnivores ( cats dogs , and most living predators ) and the rodents ( rats , mice ) . |
| 12 | To do this will involve discussion of concepts which you may not immediately associate with volcanoes : the fact that Africa and South America were once joined and later drifted apart ; that the direction which is customarily thought of as ‘ north ’ would , a few million years ago , have appeared to be ‘ south ’ on an ordinary magnetic compass . |
| 13 | by no means all rhyolite lavas are associated with obsidian — the majority are not — and , as one goes further back through the geological record , obsidian becomes progressively more and more scarce , due to devitrification , and none at all is found in rocks more than a few million years old . |
| 14 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 15 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 16 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 17 | It can hardly be coincidental that these remarkable evolutionary events , taking place within only a few million years , correspond so closely in time with an episode of exceptional igneous and urogenic activity ( Larsen & Pitman , 1972 ) , the rapid disintegration of Pangaea ( Hallam , 1980 ) and the biggest marine transgression since the mid-Palaeozoic , apparently produced either by a phase of accelerated sea-floor spreading or by a dramatic increase in the length of the ocean ridge system . |
| 18 | We also know that the specialization took place very early in the evolution of mammals and that the ancestors of the main groups that are alive today all appeared around the same time , give or take a few million years . |
| 19 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 20 | Throughout the lunar core samples , which extend well below a few millimetres , the exposure ages of the grains are similar at all depths and correspond to a few million years exposure to the cosmic-ray intensity in the present Solar System . |
| 21 | It seems likely that yet another northward-dipping thrust will develop even further to the south in a few million years . |
| 22 | I have nothing but admiration for those hardy woodturners who have put the clock back a few hundred years and are making furniture with their pole lathes , but it has made me more than ever aware that the wood lathe has changed very little over the years . |
| 23 | Go back a few hundred years and look around : there are politicians squabbling for power , priests saving souls , etc . |
| 24 | A few hundred years of respectability and the attitude was hardening . |
| 25 | Stones like these began to be highly valued in India , the earliest source of diamonds , about a few hundred years BC . |
| 26 | The conference was assured that truly ‘ intelligent ’ machines would come , It was conceded that it might take a few hundred years . |
| 27 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 28 | All prime candidates , a few hundred years ago , for the Witchfinder General . |
| 29 | Everyone goes everywhere by car these days , and perhaps in a few hundred years from now our great-great-great grandchildren will be born with hardly any legs at all because they wo n't have any use for them . |
| 30 | In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it . |