Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] years of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country . |
| 2 | Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit . |
| 3 | Over the centuries the best Italian architects , Solari , Amadeo , Pelligrino Tibaldi ( known as Il Pellegrini ) and Richini , worked on the building , although the façade was actually finished by Carlo Amati , the final stage being completed after many years of inactivity , and only after Napoleon took an interest in the building . |
| 4 | Three principal features distinguished the 17 malignant from the 53 benign strictures in this series : ( 1 ) appearance late in the course of ulcerative colitis ( 61% probability of malignancy in strictures that develop after 20 years of disease v 0% probability in those occurring before 10 years ) ; ( 2 ) location proximal to the splenic flexure ( 86% probability of malignancy v 47% in sigmoid , 10% in rectum , and 0% in splenic flexure and descending colon ) ; and ( 3 ) symptomatic large bowel obstruction ( 100% probability of malignancy v only 14% in the absence of obstruction or constipation ) . |
| 5 | In spite of the touches of mystification he employed in many autobiographical references scattered through twenty years of publishing , it is possible to detect the complicated temperament he had inherited . |
| 6 | They divorced after 20 years of marriage and he is expected to marry 37-year-old heiress Charlotte Morrison , Britain 's second richest woman . |
| 7 | The new section from Market Bosworth to Shenton will take the length of the operating section to four and a quarter miles and it is opening after ten years of fund-raising . |
| 8 | Given the sheer volume of works created by people calling themselves artists in the United States during any two-year period , it is unrealistic to think that a museum exhibition devoted to two years of art can give a visitor a sense of the breadth of what is being produced . |
| 9 | The worst prospects , for both men and women are in Ireland , where the average man lives to 76.6 years of age and women 80.6 . |
| 10 | This superb programme , honed by ten years of experience , offers a range of options to suit the most diverse of group interests . |
| 11 | Marital break-up is often , if not usually , preceded by some years of turbulence and unreliability on the part of one or both partners . |
| 12 | At 22 he 's living in the shadows , his life devastated by 8 years of glue-sniffing . |
| 13 | It worries that the Philippines could quickly forfeit the gains made during two years of austerity . |
| 14 | A Wessex village seen through 350 years of snapshot history . |
| 15 | Specifically , a stricture in ulcerative colitis is more likely to be malignant ( 1 ) if it occurs after 20 years of duration of the disease , ( 2 ) if it is located proximal to the splenic flexure , and ( 3 ) if it presents with obstructive symptoms . |
| 16 | An alternative scheme for the provision of advice was proposed and adopted after 10 years of pressure had failed to get the original scheme implemented . |
| 17 | Strawberry plants deteriorate after three years of cropping and need re-siting . |
| 18 | Another project that the ministry has suddenly accelerated after two years of inaction is a new missile designed to destroy enemy radars . |
| 19 | Mr Ayob added : ‘ Mrs Mandela appeals to the media not to concern itself with , nor speculate about , her personal relationship with her husband which has endured despite 27 years of imprisonment and many years of exile . ’ |
| 20 | Gifts made within three years of death do not qualify for any relief and the tax will have to be paid in full . |
| 21 | Originally it covered all gifts , but since 1986 it is restricted to gifts on death or those made within seven years of death . |
| 22 | To Major Patti he stated ( in excellent English ) , ‘ I put in fifteen years of service to the Party and I believe I paid my debt . |
| 23 | The adolescents range from 12-18 years of age . |
| 24 | Among 212 people between the ages of 16 and 65 , only 88 of whom had been disabled before 18 years of age , enquiry was made as to range and frequency of experience in sexual practices generally . |
| 25 | Patients with Duke 's C cancer also represent a group with a poor prognosis — 65–75% die within five years of surgery — and benefit from combined therapy with 5-flourouracil and levamisole . |
| 26 | If you die within five years of retirement , most schemes pay the balance of the five years ' pension as a lump sum . |
| 27 | Australia has agreed to pay the government of the Pacific island of Nauru a total of A$120 million ( £50 million ) as recompense for the environmental damage wreaked by 90 years of phosphate mining , most of it carried out while Nauru was administered by Australia as a UN Trusteeship . |
| 28 | It is Joe Lawley 's opinion that we have no option but to dismantle it , but this has to be done with very great care if we are not to compound the damage done by sixty years of weather and so destroy it . |
| 29 | Caring for 6,000 years of history |
| 30 | this was supposed to be celebrated after thirty years of rule and then tended to be held at more frequent intervals . |