Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] years [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have thought so through five years of opposition and 12 years on the Government side . |
| 2 | In 1918 he met the painter Arthur Lett-Haines ( 1894–1978 ) , and despite other liaisons the two lived together for sixty years until Haines 's death in 1978 . |
| 3 | Retirement and the receipt of a National Insurance pension were therefore tied together for 40 years until October 1989 , when the earnings rule and the retirement condition were abolished . |
| 4 | Our knowledge of this comes very largely from David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel , who worked together for twenty years at Harvard Medical School , recording from single neurons of the visual cortex — the part of the neocortex that receives its input mainly from the eyes . |
| 5 | What is special about nut-cracking is that it is particularly difficult and energy-demanding , and an adult standard of performance is reached only after 10 years of practice . |
| 6 | A UDC would undermine the ability of the elected local councils to implement the 1976 Docklands Strategic Plan , which had been agreed only after many years of discussion and debate ( Leaders of the London Boroughs of Greenwich , Lewisham , Newham , Southwark and Tower Hamlets , 1979 ) . |
| 7 | Despite continued inflation such small increases in remuneration have been conceded only after many years of negotiation . |
| 8 | In Britain and the United States judges are selected from lawyers , usually only after many years in practice , in Britain as an advocate , and in the United States as an advocate or in a legal post within the government . |
| 9 | His notebooks tell a rather more complex story , however , and it was only after several years of work that he eventually put together the idea of natural selection . |
| 10 | India , which prided itself on the self-sufficiency achieved by its green revolution , was obliged to buy wheat in 1988–9 ; China 's imports of wheat reached record levels in the last years of the decade , a reflection , no doubt , not just of two years of drought but of a situation where peasants received certificates instead of cash for their crops . |
| 11 | Helmut 's problems were compounded by an unsatisfactory relationship with his landlady who ‘ is just on eighty years of age and has a large house to keep clean with no help whatever ’ . |
| 12 | Steel-Maitland had been appointed Party Chairman in 1911 to a post " of cabinet rank " , and had served loyally for four years without pay or reward . |
| 13 | Close to 400 years of peace have left Switzerland with an enormous wealth of beautiful old buildings , most of which seem to be in the capital , Berne . |
| 14 | Margaret has n't looked back since and Marjorie ( as enthusiastic as ever at 80 years of age ) still teaches two classes each week . |
| 15 | One of the drawbacks of A level is that because it is an examination to be taken at a particular time , namely after two years of study in the sixth form ( there are exceptions to this , but such is the general rule ) it is taken by people who are at very different stages of development , of readiness for the examination , and , above all , of interest in the subject matter . |
| 16 | Such a financial obstacle would send most people looking for an easier option , but Dreamflight has been helped enormously in recent years by Spar supermarkets who have raised £350,000 . |
| 17 | The conceptual map of the basic medical sciences has changed remarkably in recent years with developments in immunology , molecular genetics , biotechnology and the neurosciences , to name a few . |
| 18 | He tells me : ‘ Quite frankly after 10 years on shift work I 'm looking forward to a bit of a break . |
| 19 | ‘ Believe me , we 've worked fuckin' hard to get where we are now after three years of slog . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Believe me , we 've worked fuckin' hard to get where we are now after three years of slog . ’ |
| 21 | The level of contributions had been increased sharply in recent years in order to make provision for a demographic trend whereby in the early part of the 21st century an increased proportion of the total population would be in receipt of retirement benefits at a time when the proportion in work ( and therefore contributing to the funds ) would be reduced . |
| 22 | Grasmere was paradise to him and he settled here for several years at Dove cottage ( which is open to the public ) . |
| 23 | The park has been used regularly for 30 years by Yorkshire County Cricket Club and it is also home to Middlesbrough rugby and cricket clubs . |
| 24 | The couple , who divorced four months ago after 16 years of marriage , just ‘ could n't live apart ’ . |
| 25 | You might have thought almost no one would back the successor to an organisation that collapsed in disgrace only months ago after 40 years of misrule . |
| 26 | She hated it , and she was afraid of it , because she doubted her power to escape ; even after two years in London , she still thought that her brain might go or that her nerve might snap , and that she would be compelled to return , feebly , defeated , to her mother 's house . |
| 27 | Graptolite taxonomy has by no means been fully resolved even after 100 years of research , and new discoveries are still being made . |
| 28 | Even after 11 years in office and in mid-recession , they are neck-and-neck with the conservatives in the opinion polls . |
| 29 | Even after eighteen years at Harris , Harris and Overdene he was , he reflected , about as much in the dark on legal questions as Donald was on medical issues . |
| 30 | Even after 30 years of marriage to Francine , Sacha says he still finds the heart-throb label difficult to live with . |