Example sentences of "[prep] years of " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER years of lobbying , it looks as if the Government will bring in legislation to force brewers to list the ingredients in their beers . |
| 2 | Tenants who refuse to accept leases are given notice to quit and find themselves on the streets after years of loyal service . |
| 3 | After years of knockabout abuse in this paper , lets give two muted cheers for Whitbread and their hops . |
| 4 | After years of silence about his fate , Chen reappeared in public in 1980 to stand trial along with Mao 's widow Jiang Qing and other members of the so-called ‘ Gang of Four ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ After years of having gentlemen call us ‘ duck ’ and ‘ darling ’ , surely we can call one of them ‘ cuddly ’ without being offensive . ’ |
| 6 | Trowark style is large , enveloping and extremely cosy with an almost indestructible quality — one five-year-old jumper seen by The Independent is only just beginning to look ‘ broken in ’ after years of frequent machine washing and hard wear . |
| 7 | AFTER years of playing the cinderella of the media world , the potential of radio is at last gaining recognition . |
| 8 | After years of frustrated attempts to regain control of the site , Hindu extremists brought the issue to an explosive head this year by threatening to tear down the crumbling mosque and build a temple devoted to Lord Rama . |
| 9 | In 1945 one could have been excused for believing that scarcely a wall could be left standing in the German capital after years of night raids by the RAF . |
| 10 | As in any large money-making industry there are crooks and con men masquerading as successful industry figures , and there is an understandable temptation to sign a deal with absolutely anyone after years of rejection . |
| 11 | Aid is now essential to Africa as any kind of external finance is essential : it is a means of paying for imports which would otherwise not be bought , about half of which are capital goods necessary for the maintenance of assets , badly depreciated after years of neglect . |
| 12 | After years of living with Lewis she still knew but did not know that ‘ a man ’ could regard reading as the main business of the day and everything else as an interruption . |
| 13 | Now , after years of hard work , we are in sight of immunising all the world 's children against polio , tuberculosis , diphtheria , whooping cough , tetanus and measles . |
| 14 | After years of being thought a crank , he is at last being taken seriously . |
| 15 | The problem for Balcon and the Ealing cronies who mostly peopled the Bryanston board was how , after years of looking inwards to British themes , to define the international film . |
| 16 | After years of tests she and her partner still do n't know the cause of their infertility . |
| 17 | The new wave is not in the heroic mould of famous ‘ refuseniks ’ like Anatoly Scharansky , Ida Nudel and Josef Begun , who finally arrived in Israel after years of persecution , exile and imprisonment . |
| 18 | The opening of the Opera de la Bastille is now firmly promised for March — after years of political and artistic tumult . |
| 19 | In the late Seventies I interviewed Jiri Menzel , finally allowed out of the country of his birth after years of neglect , at the National Film Theatre . |
| 20 | THE European Community yesterday agreed regulations for vetting large cross-border mergers , after years of complex and tough negotiations . |
| 21 | The trust 's first action will be to launch an appeal for Namibia , which is trying to rebuild after years of war . |
| 22 | Beluga populations are also in many places suspected to be at dangerous levels after years of overexploitation . |
| 23 | Japan 's banks are cutting back their business after years of reckless lending . |
| 24 | The five that already have them — America , Britain , China , France and the Soviet Union — are discovering co-operation after years of blocking each other with vetoes . |
| 25 | After years of assuring everyone that China could be trusted to carry out the 1984 British-Chinese agreement on Hong Kong in good faith , the colonial administration found itself after Tiananmen Square presiding over a population which knew that China could not be trusted at all . |
| 26 | After years of inactivity in exile , the ANC has difficulty doing anything fast . |
| 27 | After years of haggling with EC regulatory authorities , Monsanto 's hormone drug BST , which boosts milk yields , was cleared for use within the EC . |
| 28 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 29 | After years of foraging and running wild , Sadie was given one last chance to start a new life , but the learning process proved to be a long and challenging one |
| 30 | But after years of the DHSS , it really was the first time I 'd been spoken to like a human being . |