Example sentences of "[adj] years [prep] [noun] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple have run Ronald Richardson Jewellers for 16 years and have 140 years of tradition behind them . |
| 2 | Ken Preston-Mafham has over 35 000 colour slides and more than 10 years of experience behind him , so he is well qualified to offer sound advice on the trials and tribulations of photography ‘ in the field ’ . |
| 3 | He has eight years of GPs behind him and more crashes than he 'd care to remember . |
| 4 | Long service awards for trio of Terriers THREE part-time soldiers with nearly 70 years in uniform between them have been honoured for long service . |
| 5 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
| 6 | For example in the February issue of The Art Newspaper ( No.25 pp.1 and 2 ) , in the article entitled ‘ Yugoslavia covered-up over the Sevso treasure ’ , it is stated that ‘ Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title … |
| 7 | With so many years of golf behind me , it was a task to recall my best round . |
| 8 | This is the only quotation from Panaetius ( De officiis 1.26.90 ) which can give us some idea of the conversations he had with Scipio in his many years of familiarity with him . |
| 9 | I do n't think it should become too academic , it should be whatever people want at the grassroots level , we have a couple of thousand years of patriarchy behind us and we 're not going to change things overnight . |
| 10 | In this spirit , A.C.G. Hastings wrote with pride of the transformation experienced by his cook during ten years of association with him : ‘ He spoke quite freely at the end . |
| 11 | I am ambitious , but you can be ambitious in the same garden because of the amount of work that you can see five or ten years in front of you . |
| 12 | Today 's cigarette has 110 years of image-making behind it . |
| 13 | I was five years in India with him . |
| 14 | Some 60 years after work on it ended a tip would be covered with shrubs , usually dominated by rhododendron and willow . |
| 15 | In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it . |
| 16 | I did two years on account of you , Cardiff . ’ |
| 17 | He was Major Vasily Kypov , thirty-three years of service behind him , and three more to endure before the blessed release of retirement . |