Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] years of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They divorced after 20 years of marriage and he is expected to marry 37-year-old heiress Charlotte Morrison , Britain 's second richest woman . |
| 2 | Given the sheer volume of works created by people calling themselves artists in the United States during any two-year period , it is unrealistic to think that a museum exhibition devoted to two years of art can give a visitor a sense of the breadth of what is being produced . |
| 3 | The privately rented sector is declining fast , marginalized after seventy-five years of rent controls and other restrictions , although the present government seeks to change and revive it through partial deregulation . |
| 4 | Well it so happens I was not born in Nottingham , though my early memories are of Nottingham , right even from infant school , which er started at five years of age till about seven . |
| 5 | Tommy Banks and Roy Hartle reigned through eight years of terror at Bolton under the slogan : ‘ We gives 'em gravel-rash ! ’ |
| 6 | Such an arrangement requires a high degree of trust and confidence between the parties involved , a situation , perhaps , reached after several years of trading . |
| 7 | Chairman Russell Nicolson said after two years of downturn ‘ growth has now resumed and will carry on strongly for many years ’ . |
| 8 | The leader with the sad smile slid into 20 years of disgrace before returning to the political stage with the fall of communism in late 1989 . |