Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] years [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 2 | He also became President of the Royal Society , so that for 5 years he led its activities in nurturing British science and ripening its fruits . |
| 3 | I should perhaps explain that for many years it had been a regulation in UK registered public transport aircraft that when flying below 15 000 feet hand operated microphones were prohibited . |
| 4 | But for me , all the time , it is a reminder that for 49 years it replaced wedding anniversary celebrations , and the memory of all those bonfires on the way to Bournemouth on a drizzly November afternoon , all those years ago . |
| 5 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 6 | For most consensus theorists , the answer lies in a theory of social structure made famous by Durkheim in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and developed to such an extent by Talcott Parsons and his followers in the USA between the 1930s and 1950s that during these years it came to be seen as the sociological theory . |
| 7 | Mr Smith added : ‘ There was no enthusiasm for this Government , no admiration for their performance , no sense that after 13 years they had delivered the goods , fulfilled promises or proved themselves worthy of the trust of the nation . ’ |
| 8 | The KNU president Gen. Bo Mya , in a letter to Saw Maung dated Nov. 30 , 1989 , said that after 40 years it had been " proven beyond doubt that the civil war , which is basically a political problem , can not be settled by military means " , and that " the most correct and suitable means of achieving [ the KNU 's ] political goals is the settlement of the civil war politically , in a just and rational manner " . |
| 9 | He had carried the day , of course , for although in fourteen years he had made himself supreme King in Alba , he was born to the north , and from Moray to the northernmost island of Orkney he was the leader men trusted and knew . |
| 10 | One fundholder said that within five years he expected to see practices controlling every aspect of health care . |
| 11 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 12 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 13 | His name was Dr Georges Flandrin and for five years he had been treating the Shah for cancer . |
| 14 | Queen Victoria always needed the support of a dedicated man and for nineteen years she found it in Brown . |
| 15 | I read somewhere that this slenderness was to allow bream freedom of movement between stems of marginal growth such as reeds , and for many years I accepted this as fact . |
| 16 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 17 | They chose a spot by a river , on the side of a mountain , they called three hundred workmen together , and for three years they toiled at building the city . |
| 18 | He very quickly became an invaluable member of the organisation and after two years I made him manager . |
| 19 | A year later he switched to Labour , and within six years he had won a seat on Hounslow borough council . |
| 20 | From then on his rise was rapid and within three years he had become the supreme influence at Edward 's court . |
| 21 | Dr McClure began school teaching in 1981 and within three years she became deputy headmistress at Kingswood School , Bath . |
| 22 | And if in three years you decided the performance was less than adequate , it would be worth you losing two percent to come out . |
| 23 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 24 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 25 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
| 26 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 27 | Tinka 's home is now in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , but for many years she lived in Johannesburg , where she established the Medau Society of South Africa . |
| 28 | But for six years I carried his image in my mind , determined that he should somehow be made to pay . |
| 29 | She was the British critics ' favourite on both the Bolshoi 's tours here , but for 20 years she played second fiddle to Grigorovich 's wife , Bessmertnova . |
| 30 | But for several years it remained extremely basic , with only small , medium and large sizes remotely possible so long as the styles were kept simple . |