Example sentences of "[adj] years of [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merchants of Awjla and Jalu contested this claim , but after some years of bloody conflict they were confined to the oases : if they wished to travel outside they , too , had to pay a fee to Zuwaya . |
| 2 | And when Lugard came to look back on what had been accomplished in the early years of British administration he singled out the improved character of the native rulers , which he attributed to ‘ the unceasing efforts and devoted ability of the British staff , who have by precept and example made them what they are today ’ . |
| 3 | The area had been on the periphery of the Kandyan Kingdom , and in the early years of British rule it remained an impoverished backwater . |
| 4 | After 25 years of economic growth it is anxious to show improvements in social well-being . |
| 5 | In 25 years of general practice I have had nothing but admiration and gratitude for their assistance . |
| 6 | Another Pest Control technician who has n't graced these pages is Ted Critchett who covers the Portsmouth area , and as his Branch Manager Neil Gibson says , ‘ after 15 years of hard effort he more than deserves it . ’ |
| 7 | After two years of grinding work they produced a small profit , which was to herald a creation of wealth unsurpassed in the British chemical industry of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | During my two years of national service I became first a radar mechanic and then an Education Sergeant , leaving in 1948 to start reading History at Brasenose . |