Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 2 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
| 3 | After three years at Cambridge there 's nothing soft about Dublin now . |
| 4 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
| 5 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 6 | Although she stated that after 25 years in government she was keen to seek new challenges , there was widespread speculation that she would resume her political career in 1992 by contesting either the governorship or a Senate seat in her native North Carolina . |
| 7 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
| 8 | AFTER 16 years of marriage we are splitting up and are both agreed that it is the best thing to do . |
| 9 | you think god , you know , and after five years of marriage you think well have we tried everything , yeah |
| 10 | After five years of controversy it is about to be laid to rest . |
| 11 | After five years in Yorkshire he was transferred to Manchester City for £56,000 and a year later made the fateful move to Torino . |
| 12 | After five years in Vienna he taught in Trieste , Greece and Moldavia before studying philosophy in Halle . |
| 13 | In 1762 , Josiah Wedgwood met Thomas Bentley , a Liverpool merchant , with whom he formed an intimate and lasting friendship ; and after several years of negotiation they signed , in 1769 , a partnership which ended only on Bentley 's death in 1780 . |
| 14 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 15 | After four years of service they could return home for a holiday with the family or bring out their wives and children , providing they had found accommodation for them . |
| 16 | After eighteen years of pain I have decided to leave . |
| 17 | Industrial output , including state-sector industrial output , had begun to rise in April , after two years of decline which had reduced production to 45 per cent of pre-1989 levels . |
| 18 | I mean after thirty years of policies our own real economy is shambles , growing unemployment . |
| 19 | Henrietta 's frail constitution could not withstand the rigours of childbirth , however , and after seven years of marriage she died soon after giving birth to their son , John . |
| 20 | If the purity of the motive was not here in question , we can sorrowfully contrast the fate of Alfred Berry , an unfortunate young man of 18 years from Camden whose idea of mischievous fun was to make an annoying din in the open streets between three and four o'clock in the morning in late December 1862 . |
| 21 | If we compare boys of 14 years of age who opt for science with other boys , we find that the former have very cut-and-dried views on many issues . |
| 22 | ‘ AT THE tail-end of 14 years in power our rump of a Conservative Government can think of nothing but half-hearted socialist measures , as if through introducing socialism by the back door it will somehow ease its own exit by the front ’ — Commentator Auberon Waugh . |
| 23 | He put her on probation for three years on condition she remained an in-patient at a psychiatric hospital . |
| 24 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |
| 25 | In 10 years with Llanelli his grand total of games was a miserly 260 . |
| 26 | In ten years of programming I now have many companies utilising database applications for names and addresses , every one of them would have benefited by including Rapid Address within the database . |
| 27 | In 40 years of film-making they have had not one disagreement . |
| 28 | His patience was dwindling and for the first time in four years of marriage she could see he was on the point of losing his temper . |
| 29 | There has been a lot of talk in recent years about Formula One now being safe , but I think that is dangerous talk . |
| 30 | Tragically many trees have been removed from the valley in recent years by people who cleared land to grow tobacco . |