Example sentences of "[adj] year [prep] [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 | The French government , which is overseeing the experiments and contributing part of the cost , will decide this year on which system it will base its national network for electronic cash , which computer companies have inevitably dubbed monetique ’ . |
| 4 | Six years after its creation it was transformed into the county of Cleveland by the addition of Hartlepool and other parts of south-east Durham and a small area of north-east Yorkshire |
| 5 | Etheridge jun. worked in the Edinburgh office for 7 years during which time he did an amazing amount of work on Silurian and Carboniferous fossils . |
| 6 | 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 ] . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | Ash is produced when the coal is burnt and has proved to be something for the salvation for many plants and animals the ash is so fine that it has to be turned into a slurry and put into the to settle out these can be up to eight years during which time it becomes none the less but an artificial mud flat quickly colonized by weeds , pioneers crucial to the complex way of life in our natural world But for bird-watchers it is the bird that attracted to these artificial mud flats that are the most exciting development within the boundaries of these power station nature reserves . |
| 10 | ‘ Fifty years after my death I will be known as Gwen John 's brother ’ , he once wrote . |
| 11 | In the closing years of his life he suffered serious illness . |
| 12 | From the last dozen years of his life we find four main ideas , plus an intriguing fifth , a sort of roman trouvé . |
| 13 | And for many years of their marriage it seemed that she was . |
| 14 | For the first 25 years of my life I was convinced that everybody was either writing or wanted to write a novel . |
| 15 | having seen Frank playing in our Norwegian ‘ premiership ’ — i can only say : this guy has talent and give him a couple of more years on his neck he will become a real threat to any defence . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Certainly not the firm of Hang , for within the space of ten years from their involvement they had expended around £31,758 and all that money , and a deal more , found itself disseminated in two or three quiet corners of this remote part of England . |
| 18 | The American clipper ships of the 1850 s , the famous ‘ soft-wood three skysail-yarders ’ , became water-soaked within about ten years by which time they had no doubt paid for themselves very handsomely . |
| 19 | Ten years after their retirement they were still writing . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the seventeen years since his birth she had stopped being a dancer in Miami , become the straight lady to entertainer pinky Lee for a time and , during the war , done her bit for the American effort in the control tower at Willow Run , the central domestic sending centre for the military . |
| 22 | When the Shavante train boys to become warriors who can both take and give orders , they systematically constrain the youngsters in age-set seclusion for a period of five years during which time they are trained to endure suffering ( see below ) . |
| 23 | The Commission was supposed to be guided in its deliberations by the Nazimov Rescript , the programme adopted by the Main Committee in December 1858 , and the schemes devised by the provincial gentry committees , but the first and third of these were too conservative for its taste and in the first year of its life it gave them short shrift . |
| 24 | For the next twenty years of his reign he fought against the Byzantines to establish Serbia 's independence . |
| 25 | His wife died in 1902 and for the twenty years of his retirement he lived in hotels . |
| 26 | Dotty was thirty-nine , but had he added twenty years onto her age he knew it would n't have deterred Harbour . |
| 27 | A : to give him and he was writing just at the beginning he was — writing the whole — for each year of his life he wrote something in that had — had been invented or + |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The best years of his mind he 'd sacrificed to this godforsaken place and precious little did he have to show for it . |
| 30 | 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 . |