Example sentences of "[adj] years of [noun sg] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 2 | The apparent casualness of the alliance , and the stormy passages of their wartime life in Berlin , did not alter the resolve with which Margaret Joyce was to stand by her difficult husband in the most onerous and tragic phases of the eight years of life which remained to him . |
| 3 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
| 4 | Aye , beauty , oh I 'm getting good at that , you see , it 's all these years of practice I 've had . |
| 5 | No advance booking is necessary — just turn up with your licence , a passenger over 21 years of age who has held a full driving licence for at least 3 years and the fee of only £2 ( motorcycles £1 ) per hour . |
| 6 | Some jobs require many years of training which restricts the supply of labour . |
| 7 | In Ghana 46% of the population are under sixteen years of age which brings with it associated social problems . |
| 8 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
| 9 | In his 50 years of Trotskyism he made not one small dent in the capitalist system , but he mortally wounded the movement he claimed to lead . |
| 10 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
| 11 | The Wray Education Trust is a fund which benefits young people under 25 years of age who attend further education establishments , also apprentices , and other education activities within the village . |
| 12 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 13 | As the name of this test implies , it is designed to be used as a screening device to identify children between 3 and 8 years of age who require further assessment and possible intervention ( Lee 1969 ) . |
| 14 | Over her nine years of life there 's been a serious build-up of fluid on her chest . |
| 15 | Sixty one years of age who employs |
| 16 | you think god , you know , and after five years of marriage you think well have we tried everything , yeah |
| 17 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 18 | In 40 years of film-making they have had not one disagreement . |
| 19 | In 1762 , Josiah Wedgwood met Thomas Bentley , a Liverpool merchant , with whom he formed an intimate and lasting friendship ; and after several years of negotiation they signed , in 1769 , a partnership which ended only on Bentley 's death in 1780 . |
| 20 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 21 | After eighteen years of pain I have decided to leave . |
| 22 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 23 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 24 | Edward 's first year at Oxford , with its long hours of set daily lectures and prepared reading , its loneliness punctuated by long walks , longer letters , and occasional forays in search of new friendships , formed a gentle transition from the two years of freedom he had enjoyed , since leaving St. Paul 's , towards the severer demands that family and social demands were to make upon him . |
| 25 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
| 26 | Industrial output , including state-sector industrial output , had begun to rise in April , after two years of decline which had reduced production to 45 per cent of pre-1989 levels . |
| 27 | If we compare boys of 14 years of age who opt for science with other boys , we find that the former have very cut-and-dried views on many issues . |
| 28 | ‘ For the first half-dozen years of Scrutiny I had no post and no salary , and was hard put to it to make a living , ’ he once wrote in characteristic vein . |
| 29 | In fact there 's several chapters dedicated to software , particularly educational software and Toni Mitchell is obviously passionate about her subject … ‘ in 20 years of teaching I have never seen any teaching tool or method that captures the imagination and excites the enthusiasm and interest of the children as much as quality computer software . ’ |
| 30 | But at 20 years of age I had no scruples about rubber gloves and bleach , and dealt with the problem straight away . |