Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] years of [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's because we 're investing a lot of capital expenditure to put right some years of neglect I might say . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 4 | Aye , beauty , oh I 'm getting good at that , you see , it 's all these years of practice I 've had . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |