Example sentences of "[pers pn] [prep] [adj] years of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | German civilians especially suffered mistreatment at the hands of the Red Army in the East , but there was little sympathy for them after six years of war . |
| 2 | ‘ I ca n't believe she 's doing this to me after 33 years of marriage , ’ said Bill , who had retired with Anne to Guernsey after selling his shopfitting business in north London . |
| 3 | The Clerk was to send a letter of apology to Mrs thanking her for twenty years of service and ask if she 'd reconsider the job . |
| 4 | His wife , Janie , whom he married in 1879 , abetted by her mother , persuaded him after three years of matrimony during which he was in the coasting trade , to settle permanently ashore , helping him to open , first a " cook-shop " and then a larger business in Sunderland which became known as " Wilson 's Temperance Hotel and Dining Rooms " . |
| 5 | I 've never seen anything like it in 30 years of voting ! |
| 6 | But I still maintain to encourage them at twelve years of age to be ab oh I think it 's all wrong . |
| 7 | The birds proved to be merely the lure which was to draw us into ten years of adventure through a land of waking dreams . |
| 8 | Many of us in middle years of life have experienced the pain of such loss : few of us have experienced multiple losses , sometimes in quick succession , except in times of war ; none of us have yet had to accept that those losses , of our own generation , signify the beginning of the end for us . |