Example sentences of "[prep] year of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years of dealing with the likes of dullard and truculent supermarket purchasing managers , Horsley was suddenly meeting all manner of fascinating and powerful people . |
| 2 | After years of plotting against the Russians , he found it difficult to trust any of them . |
| 3 | And the decision means Tranmere 's second string will finally have quality opposition after years of languishing in the Midlands Senior League . |
| 4 | Chatting in the bar at the festival centre , the 30-year-old writer/director shows a few signs of wear ( a bad back , a persistent cold ) but is obviously still riding the adrenaline rush of getting his movie made after years of struggling on the margins of the film industry . |
| 5 | Next week parents are due to receive ballot papers to vote on whether they want to push for grant maintained status after years of waiting for the council to convert promises into action . |
| 6 | A suicide note revealed they were desperate after years of caring for the seriously handicapped daughter . |
| 7 | LVTA is the result of years of lobbying by the SMMT on behalf of its Specialist Car Manufacturers ' Group , chaired by Caterham 's Graham Nearn and consisting of seven companies which number Marcos , Westfield , JBA and Jago Automotive — all kit car makers — among them . |
| 8 | The law , the result of years of lobbying by the Roman Catholic church , bans abortions in private clinics and puts strict limits on them in public hospitals . |
| 9 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 10 | I had the temerity to object to these insertions , because I knew full well from years of grubbing in the darker recesses of the phylum that the changes were in the mind rather than in the matter . |
| 11 | He was not a man to whom gracious speech came easily and his cheeks , roughened and weathered by years of riding on the open moor , twitched as he sought for words . |
| 12 | The Government had two objectives : first to improve the country 's relations with the Community , damaged by years of squabbling over the Community 's demonstrably unfair agricultural and budgetary mechanisms , which had severely disadvantaged Britain , and , second , to fulfil what was understood to be the explicit goal of the Treaty of Rome , the establishment of a free trade zone based upon economic co-operation between member states . |