Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was subsequently paid to fly by the RAF ; after a lapse of 33 years I returned to the skies five years ago , when I could finally afford a share in a Cherokee which I now fly regularly from Ludham . |
| 2 | Over a period of many years I had a succession of research students working On the Eocene strata of the Isle of Wight , off the south coast of England . |
| 3 | Over a period of fifteen years he noted that not only were the ridge and furrow patterns of each individual 's prints unique , but that they never changed . |
| 4 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 5 | The government announced on Nov. 26 that over a period of three years it intended to cut 122,000 government jobs — approximately one fifth of state employees — at an estimated saving to the state of the equivalent of US$1,500 million . |
| 6 | In a period of ten years he recorded at least thirty proven cases of clairvoyance between himself , or his wife , and a horse . |
| 7 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 8 | Your lust for her knew no bounds and when this loyal woman spurned you for her husband of twenty years you wreaked a terrible revenge ! ’ |
| 9 | Although she had pronounced likes and dislikes for the various members of her class she was perhaps the best teacher in the school , and at the end of four years she had hardly any failures in the final examinations . |
| 10 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |