Example sentences of "[adj] years of [pron] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You work forty years of your life you 're made redundant all that time you paid insurance , tax and after twelve months they 've got the gall to take money you paid all your life off your unemployment and throw you on income . |
| 2 | For the first two and a half years of his life he was in and out of hospital until they found the right medication . |
| 3 | Since her election in 1986 , President Corazon Aquino had maintained a deliberately ambiguous stance over the bases ; although in the early years of her term she suggested some opposition to the US presence , this position had been weakened when US aircraft from the bases had played an essential role in Aquino 's defeat of a serious right-wing military coup attempt in December 1989 [ see pp. 37120-21 ] . |
| 4 | But in the early years of his editorship he had also wanted to achieve something quite different from other contemporary periodicals — he was trying to express , if not create , a genuinely European consciousness which would subvert the characteristically insular nature of English cultural life . |
| 5 | In the early years of his premiership he was very sharp , though , as Iain Macleod recalled , ‘ he could be maddeningly discursive — it was nothing to reach a decision on an enquiry into rating via the Greek Wars and Parnell ’ . |
| 6 | In the closing years of his life he suffered serious illness . |
| 7 | From the last dozen years of his life we find four main ideas , plus an intriguing fifth , a sort of roman trouvé . |
| 8 | And for many years of their marriage it seemed that she was . |
| 9 | For the first 25 years of my life I was convinced that everybody was either writing or wanted to write a novel . |
| 10 | This is emergency-speak ; life on red alert : ‘ For the first twenty-five years of my life I lived as a criminal , and the next twenty-five were spent as a second-class citizen , deprived of equality and human rights . ’ |
| 11 | Thus in the first twelve years of his reign he received an average of about £26,000 per annum from extraordinary revenue and over the reign as a whole about £13,500 per annum . |
| 12 | For the next twenty years of his reign he fought against the Byzantines to establish Serbia 's independence . |
| 13 | His wife died in 1902 and for the twenty years of his retirement he lived in hotels . |
| 14 | John Mitchell was employed on the building of the Caledonian canal ; his diligence and skill were noticed by Thomas Telford [ q.v. ] and for the last eighteen years of his life he was principal inspector of the roads and bridges in the Highlands of Scotland . |
| 15 | The best years of his mind he 'd sacrificed to this godforsaken place and precious little did he have to show for it . |
| 16 | That happened , as the reader may remember , in my grandfather 's case ; for the last two years of his life he was bedridden , often in acute discomfort , before finally succumbing . |
| 17 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 18 | For the last four years of his life he suffered periodic attacks of the same symptoms , which damaged his kidneys still further , and led to high blood pressure . |
| 19 | In the earlier years of his reign he had tended to stay in the central area of Francia proper , often at Aachen , his father 's old base , or further west , for instance at Compiègne on the River Oise . |
| 20 | During the last years of her life she was the leader of a group — concerned to reform sexual behaviour and discard gender stereotyping — that published the journal Urania from 1916 . |