Example sentences of "after [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , at clubs like Tottenham and Ajax of Amsterdam , fans now celebrate their club 's Jewish associations after suffering years of abuse for the same . |
| 2 | After teenage years , the most common cause of tooth loss is gum disease , so regular brushing should include gums as well as teeth . |
| 3 | erm she said she thought everything would be okay apart from partial blind due to accident after teenage years cos it 's basically it 's actually a college |
| 4 | After early years in Jamaica and Erriboll , Scotland , the family settled in London . |
| 5 | Red in the face he dumped the burden onto the massive wooden kitchen table , which gleamed white after countless years of daily scrubbing . |
| 6 | Just NORMAN BRITTON , C OF E. After forty-odd years of being a good boy and paying the mortgage and … ’ |
| 7 | Indeed throughout humanities disciplines , after thirty-odd years of this kind of research , there are embarrassingly few books and articles which can be confidently pointed out as passing both tests . |
| 8 | After long years of living in unsatisfactory rented accommodation , it now looked as if Jack and Minto could afford a place of their own . |
| 9 | Asked what he hoped for Soviet art and culture after long years of political oppression , he said there would be an enormous spiritual benefit , not least because of easier travel and contacts with the rest of the world . |
| 10 | A key feature of the Intifada is that , after long years of trans-frontier or inter-state conflict between largely faceless enemies , it brought the conflict back to where it essentially belongs , to Palestine itself . |
| 11 | These men are also frequently by their misfortunes raised into the greatest benefit that Charles Lamb wrote of as being his fortune to realise after long years of being a poor man in time to be lifted into a vast inheritance . |
| 12 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 13 | They had continued to write , frequently at first , then more and more seldom , and only once more had he heard from him , by chance , after long years : married , a father , in a high judicial position . |
| 14 | Finally , after long years , she had become a party-goer . |
| 15 | After 40-odd years of dependence , the change is daunting . |
| 16 | Tommy Gorman , acting convener at the Albion plant in Glasgow , added : ‘ I saw a staff manager leaving with a plastic bag and half-an-hour 's notice after 40-odd years of service . |
| 17 | After frustrating years in which they had covered acres of print discussing the sociological theory and implications of newspaper readership , they wanted to compete in the more popular market . |
| 18 | Among the greatest losers were the country 's banks which , after recent years of high asset growth , saw the value of their share holdings greatly reduced . |
| 19 | Judge Furner was still presiding over the county courts at Lewes after twenty-two years , and he continued to order defaulting and mostly absent debtors to be punished by having to spend short terms in the county gaol , for some time after New Years Day 1870 . |
| 20 | After enduring years of contempt and obloquy , Neil Kinnock was ready to step into No 10 . |
| 21 | I on the other hand went on the stage entirely by design and it was no accident that after twenty-odd years , I found myself thinking more and more of my childhood heroine . |