Example sentences of "a few [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Probably the waves cut the cliffs of weak killas far back inland , over a period of a few million years . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | If the land is all eroded into the sea in a matter of a few million years , how does the system keep on running ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is relatively young , with a probable age of no more than a few million years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It seems likely that yet another northward-dipping thrust will develop even further to the south in a few million years . |
| 12 | But anyway , the whole problem we face now is how to do more samples because we 're only looking at intercourse in the cores of , say , a thousand or two thousand year spacing , we 've got to get down to a few hundred year spacing to really see some of the changes in climate that we know have gone on . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Go back a few hundred years and look around : there are politicians squabbling for power , priests saving souls , etc . |
| 15 | A few hundred years of respectability and the attitude was hardening . |
| 16 | Stones like these began to be highly valued in India , the earliest source of diamonds , about a few hundred years BC . |
| 17 | The conference was assured that truly ‘ intelligent ’ machines would come , It was conceded that it might take a few hundred years . |
| 18 | He described it as the ‘ old ’ fell race but it was started a few hundred years after the feast originated . |
| 19 | All prime candidates , a few hundred years ago , for the Witchfinder General . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The whole complex is only a few hundred years old . |
| 23 | ‘ So if you were to take the TARDIS a few hundred years back , ’ she said , ‘ what could you do ? ’ |
| 24 | We had heard from Werner Meyer that the Toraja custom of burying their dead in high vaults began only a few hundred years ago when Bugis raiding parties from the lowlands began pillaging their burial sites for the booty interred with the corpses , and as recently as 1964 an army general stationed on the island had led his army on similar raids . |
| 25 | A few hundred years of Imperial rule and already a coterie surrounded the throne which , by its very nature , endangered the survival of the Imperium . |
| 26 | Then a few hundred years later we had the industrial revolution , what was the big step change from craftsmanship to the industrial revolution ? |
| 27 | To this end it has settled in countries that a few hundred years ago barely knew of the apple 's existence . |
| 28 | Now the flagship has been sunk , more quickly than the Mary Rose , but unlike that ship it will not come up again , even after a few hundred years . |
| 29 | A few hundred years ago |
| 30 | In the New World , there was movement of crops between Mexico and coastal Peru by 1000BC and , a few hundred years later , the people of southern Arabia were trading down the coast of East Africa . |