Example sentences of "[adj] year of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An illustrated lecture by Dr John Shannon OBE , Chairman of the York Civic Trust , examining the architectural details of York — gleaned from 30 years of walking around the City . |
| 2 | It was one of the very best I 've spent in 30 years of climbing round the world . |
| 3 | The figures have been released on the day the Samaritans mark forty years of listening to the nation 's problems . |
| 4 | In 10 years of filming around the globe , he 's come across Oxfam time . |
| 5 | They looked up at her , and it was clear without anything being said that they were doing their best to cram fifty years of living into the next week or two . |
| 6 | But to me it 's innately dishonest to make claims that a cream that is basically oil and water is going to take grief and stress and fifty years of living in the sun off your face . |
| 7 | The well-dressing was started in Dore in 1959 as an added attraction for the scout gala , which takes place on the second Saturday in July , so an obvious choice for the design was ‘ A Boy Scout ’ , representing fifty years of scouting in the district . |
| 8 | Many postgraduates after three years of thinking in the abstract feel quite stupid when required to think concretely . ) |
| 9 | After three years of operating under the same roof , the section of Art Basel devoted to contemporary prints will now move to a separate location and take place earlier than the main body of the fair . |
| 10 | After three years of groping in the dark they have emerged not quite into sparkling sunshine but at least into the hint of a new dawn . |
| 11 | had had the opportunity for many years of looking at the question in its material phases , of appreciating its hygienic results … |
| 12 | A MAN who complained of 17 years of hounding by the television licensing authority although he had never owned a TV set won a remarkable legal battle and £5,500 expenses yesterday . |
| 13 | The My Lai episode should , therefore , be a model to such peoples as the East Germans and the Romanians , who are just emerging from 50 years of living under the secret police . |
| 14 | I could , I could really throw the dirt at them by saying that I 'll , you know , if there is a conspiracy there 's , a person here who 's been involved in a very iffy part of the budget , who all of a sudden after ten years of slagging off the town clerk , all of a sudden he 's totally on the town clerk 's side , together with Councillor . |
| 15 | After five years of living with the natives and being offered the delicacy of a human thumb by cannibals — a feast which he gracefully declined — Terry was feeling homesick . |
| 16 | The Scottish Office , after five years of lobbying by the timber trade , and prompted by European Community farm surpluses , has agreed that marginal farmland previously kept for agriculture can now be used for forestry . |
| 17 | After twenty years of trading in the volost' and in Kursk town he came to own by 1914 eight houses ( four of them in Kursk ) and had a turnover of a million roubles . |
| 18 | Sukarno was about to become the storm-centre of his country 's affairs after several years of standing above the battle . |
| 19 | Three hundred years of catering for the City of London were celebrated by Ring & Brymer at the Museum of London last week . |
| 20 | Now at least we have a manager , who after two years of stumbling in the dark , has seen the light . |
| 21 | Now , after two years of living in the bus outside his parents ' house , lack of work in this country has prompted him to emigrate to Auckland , New Zealand , with Louise and son Sam , so his marvellous mobile home is now up for sale . |
| 22 | ( An aside : After over 20 years of climbing in the Peak District I have come to the conclusion that the upper pitch of Valkyrie sees more epics than almost any other . |
| 23 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 24 | ‘ It was pretty close for a while , but in the last two sets I got run over by a Mack truck , ’ said Navratilova , who told the crowd that next year will probably be her last year of competing on the tour as a singles player . |