Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of these extra students will be people who are entering after several years in employment , or after years spent bringing up a family ; others will be coming straight from secondary education . |
| 2 | Local people mutter and march , make speeches and throw things ; staff face sarcasm in nearby pubs ; and for years there have been demands for a public inquiry . |
| 3 | The only other black head coach in NFL history was ‘ Fritz ’ Pollard more than 60 years ago and for years the NFL has been repeatedly criticised by American civil-rights groups for its failure to name a black head coach from its ranks of qualified assistants . |
| 4 | The reason for the payments was ‘ not the fecklessness , gullibility or incompetence of the small investor , but the fecklessness , gullibility and incompetence of the Government , which for months and for years ignored all warnings ’ . |
| 5 | He said it was not the small investor but the ‘ fecklessness , gullibility , and incompetence of the Government , which for months and for years , ignored all the warnings . |
| 6 | ‘ If [ Fujimori ] had a script to do grievous harm to the country today , tomorrow and for years to come , this would be it , ’ said Gustavo Gorriti , a prominent Peruvian journalist , exhausted after his release from police custody . |
| 7 | She was a fairy who married a mortal to gain a soul , and made a pact that he would never spy on her on Saturdays , and for years he never did , and they had six sons , all with strange defects — odd ears , giant tusks , a catshead growing out of one cheek , three eyes , that sort of thing . |
| 8 | We had another narrow escape , and for years afterwards Father would go red with embarrassment when the subject was mentioned : ‘ I must have been off my head , ’ he would mutter ashamedly . |
| 9 | And for years afterwards he hardly thought of his father . |
| 10 | This year , and for years to come , they will walk hand-in-hand to lay a wreath at Suzanne 's grave . |
| 11 | She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation . |
| 12 | Its schools are set in green-lawned campuses , and for years its teachers have been among the highest-paid in Texas . |
| 13 | Mme Deloche became my mentor during this period , and for years after I left France , I used to send her Oxford Marmalade , Bath Olivers and Christmas puddings in exchange for the things she had taught me to make . |
| 14 | The dank smell of the water was not unpleasant , and for years the scent of la Sologne that enveloped me that night would pierce my memory : a combination of stagnant water , slime , wild mushrooms , wispy dry grasses , sand and well-hung game . |
| 15 | Well I went out once last year , you see , and I was lucky enough but and for years and years and years I took Fynnon Salts and which is supposed to be good for rheumatism . |
| 16 | Such dreams would not have fitted with her image and for years she had squashed them firmly , but they were still there and the name Andalucía had brought them racing back . |
| 17 | It was during the time the play was being crafted , and for years afterwards , that Ken was a witness to the bizarre happenings that made up this strangest of all relationships , a relationship which ended with Halliwell murdering Orton and then taking his own life . |
| 18 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 19 | And for years I sort of just dismissed it as a sort of thing I did in my past . |
| 20 | Pitt , as Prime Minister , was ill-prepared for such a turn of events , and through years of hesitancy and uncertainty he watched a yet deeper impoverishment overtake many thousands of his fellow-countrymen . |
| 21 | Frank returned to England , and after years of study at Steevens ' Hospital , Dublin , qualified as a doctor . |
| 22 | and after years of frost and rains |
| 23 | ‘ Regard those buds , ’ said The Fat Controller , ‘ for throughout the long day of pluck and twist they turn into barbs and after years of this constant abrading , a deadened rind is added to the pluckers ’ hands . |
| 24 | The new iron and steel complex in Misratah was opened on Sept. 9 , 1989 , at an estimated cost of dollars 6,000 million and after years of delays resulting from shrinking oil revenues in the mid-1980s . |
| 25 | Last year , at the age of 27 and after years of inner turmoil , he told his parents of his decision and left home soon afterwards . |
| 26 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
| 27 | Majorca is packed with fun things to do and with years of experience behind us , we 've singled out the very best entertainments and attractions for our trips programme . |
| 28 | Intuitively Morris takes full advantage of this essentially amazing characteristic of photography , and with years of practice has established his own photographic ‘ language ’ which is peculiar to him — photography in his own light as well as the world 's . |
| 29 | Intuitively Morris takes full advantage of this essentially amazing characteristic of photography , and with years of practice has established his own photographic ‘ language ’ which is peculiar to him — photography in his own light as well as the world 's . |
| 30 | If you want to make love more than once , said the notes — and with years of celibacy to make up for , I certainly did — it would be a good idea to insert another dollop of cream . |