Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [adj] years in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unemployed after many years in government service , he wrote his handbook of advice to new rulers in an attempt to win a job with the incoming Medici administration . |
| 2 | The imprisonment of prisoners of conscience , unfair trials of political prisoners , lengthy detention without trial , ill-treatment of detainees , possible extra-judicial executions and excessive use of the death penalty have become prevalent in recent years in Tibet . |
| 3 | Yes , I think that as David said one of the things that we 've been working at very hard in recent years in teacher training is to try to improve the quality and the content of reading courses generally , and then I think it is also necessary to draw attention to teachers of this problem of dyslexia . |
| 4 | They remained disassembled for several years in storage awaiting a studio decision on their fate . |
| 5 | He stands down this summer looking tired and weary after 20 years in office running a metropolis of ten million people which has a world-wide reputation for its crime , its gangs , its murders , its drugs , its violence , its riots , its burning streets . |
| 6 | Ignoring polls that show the public to support assisted suicide ( though few people seem enamoured of the doctor himself ) , the legislature passed a law that makes helping somebody to commit suicide a felony , punishable by four years in prison . |