Example sentences of "[adj] years of [noun] [prep] [pron] " 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 | Daedalus is designing a novel house extension , a variable-pressure bedroom , which may purchase an extra few years of life for its proud owners by slowing the metabolic rate of that third of their lifetime which they spend asleep . |
| 3 | A few years of storms with plenty of rain would probably have undermined this place anyway . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The value of money was relative and it was becoming an increasingly difficult task for her to reconcile those early years of poverty with her present position . |
| 6 | Also in demand for private and company charter hire such as conference and product launches , the one-time roadside diner and spring company board room accumulated some 400,000 miles in the eight years of operation since their ‘ second coming ’ in 1982 . |
| 7 | He has eight years of GPs behind him and more crashes than he 'd care to remember . |
| 8 | One night , in a state of despair , he drank several cans of lager with friends from college — and on the way home , expressed years of frustration against his parents ' beliefs ( as well as his deep need for their love ) by throwing stones at the stained glass windows . |
| 9 | Whatever the cause and by whatever path the impact is felt , there is no gainsaying the fact that there is a clear differential in levels of infant and early childhood mortality by age of mother at birth of child and that this differential tends , on balance , to favour the children whose mothers were about 20 to 35 years of age at their birth . |
| 10 | His wife , Janie , whom he married in 1879 , abetted by her mother , persuaded him after three years of matrimony during which he was in the coasting trade , to settle permanently ashore , helping him to open , first a " cook-shop " and then a larger business in Sunderland which became known as " Wilson 's Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms " . |
| 11 | There were also many years of frustration in my youth when the business was very small and I was bubbling with ideas , bubbling with energy and desperate to get things to happen but could n't in the very dull environment of the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 12 | But of course it should be noted that most people are conditioned by many years of experience in which traders have tended to gloss over interest rates . |
| 13 | We urge the Government to make swift progress with this issue , for there have already been too many years of procrastination during which we have paid a high price in terms of serious and irreversible environmental damage . |
| 14 | With so many years of golf behind me , it was a task to recall my best round . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | For those judgements , the reader must consult either the entries in the exhibition catalogue written by Sarah Whitfield and discussing nearly 170 works of art showing at the Hayward Gallery and the participating museums in the United States , or David Sylvester 's monograph , the result of many years of rumination on his subject . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The exigencies of war were such that those with long years of service to their name ( and there were probably more of them in the fifteenth than in the fourteenth century ) almost inevitably found themselves in positions of command . |
| 19 | After ten years of service to her company , the Fibre Boards Africa Ltd ( FAL ) , the author became a victim as the men in authority conspired and dismissed her . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Today 's cigarette has 110 years of image-making behind it . |
| 22 | From leaving school at twelve years of age until her marriage to Hywell Gates at the age of twenty-five , she had slaved in other peoples houses for a pittance . |
| 23 | Under the Child Minders Regulations Act of 1948 a person caring for reward for one or more children under five years of age to whom they are not related is required to be registered with the local authority . |
| 24 | Raising a glass to each other on their retirement from John Murray last month after a combined total of 88 years representing the company , many of them spent on the road , were left , John Harbour , who joined the company in 1944 , and Ron Church , with just over 40 years of service under his belt . |
| 25 | Several years of research into our love of meat has left me in little doubt that most of us nowadays would prefer not to face up to the carnal origins of our flesh foods . |
| 26 | In such cases failure is even more painful than with a home student , and one has heard rumours of failed candidates having to return several years of fees to their government , and suffering even worse penalties . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In a study of 50 such patients in the United States 15 developed new symptoms and some acquired additional ‘ sensitivities ’ during two years of treatment of their environmental illness by clinical ecologists . |
| 29 | Seven years after Mrs Thatcher 's warning to the unions and nearly seven years of government under her direction during which time the trade unions ' privileges have been reduced , the growth of wages continues strongly at a time of very high unemployment . |
| 30 | He was Major Vasily Kypov , thirty-three years of service behind him , and three more to endure before the blessed release of retirement . |