Example sentences of "[prep] fifteen years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After fifteen years she had come to assume that Daniel had died in Auschwitz . |
| 2 | After fifteen years he was still pursuing his feud against his master-mason , unwilling to let even his bones rest . |
| 3 | In the course of fifteen years I have slowly worked my way up from the people , together with this Movement . |
| 4 | Over a period of fifteen years he noted that not only were the ridge and furrow patterns of each individual 's prints unique , but that they never changed . |
| 5 | The fragile democratic institutions of Weimar were not able to survive the sense of defeat , the recession and Hitler 's onslaught , and within fifteen years he was elected Chancellor . |
| 6 | In fact , for fifteen years I was a village cricketer for Sheepscombe , deep into Cotswold country , beyond Stroud and Painswick . |
| 7 | For fifteen years I 've spent much of my spare time scrabbling and grovelling about in the mud and gravels of our upland waterways . |