Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] years [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And for many years of their marriage it seemed that she was . |
| 2 | Poorly appreciated during his life and for many years after his death , this period of his work was reassessed by a touring exhibition sponsored by the Hayward Gallery in 1981 , but a substantial group of his later canvases has never been shown in the context of his whole development . |
| 3 | My husband , when I met him , looked intensely lived-in , and after seventeen years of me , ‘ squatted-in ’ would be more the term for it . |
| 4 | He was later promoted to depute director and within six years of his return , he found himself director of the newly-created Lothian Regional Council 's Education Department . |
| 5 | Dušan withstood the eastern invaders both in 1345 and 1349 , but within thirty years of his death in 1355 most of his empire had been overrun by the Turks and Serbia awaited the coup de grâce , which came in 1389 with the defeat of Prince Lazar at Kosovo Polje . |
| 6 | Stalin had seemed immortal , but within three years of his death Khruschev had begun to demolish his myth . |