Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adj] years of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seventy-two per cent of those who had previously worked were currently unemployed as a direct result of their heroin use : 17 were dismissed for continual lateness and/or absenteeism ; two were dismissed for theft from work to finance their habit ; two lost their jobs when they were imprisoned for burglary or possession of heroin ; one was dismissed after two years of illness related to his drug use ; and one went bankrupt trying to support his habit . |
| 2 | Over the centuries the best Italian architects , Solari , Amadeo , Pelligrino Tibaldi ( known as Il Pellegrini ) and Richini , worked on the building , although the façade was actually finished by Carlo Amati , the final stage being completed after many years of inactivity , and only after Napoleon took an interest in the building . |
| 3 | In spite of the touches of mystification he employed in many autobiographical references scattered through twenty years of publishing , it is possible to detect the complicated temperament he had inherited . |
| 4 | This superb programme , honed by ten years of experience , offers a range of options to suit the most diverse of group interests . |
| 5 | Marital break-up is often , if not usually , preceded by some years of turbulence and unreliability on the part of one or both partners . |
| 6 | At 22 he 's living in the shadows , his life devastated by 8 years of glue-sniffing . |
| 7 | It worries that the Philippines could quickly forfeit the gains made during two years of austerity . |
| 8 | A Wessex village seen through 350 years of snapshot history . |
| 9 | The BBC team followed the pilgrimage in all its aspects , including the Church as seen through 50 years of Bishop Harris ’ priesthood . |
| 10 | An alternative scheme for the provision of advice was proposed and adopted after 10 years of pressure had failed to get the original scheme implemented . |
| 11 | Another project that the ministry has suddenly accelerated after two years of inaction is a new missile designed to destroy enemy radars . |
| 12 | Mr Ayob added : ‘ Mrs Mandela appeals to the media not to concern itself with , nor speculate about , her personal relationship with her husband which has endured despite 27 years of imprisonment and many years of exile . ’ |
| 13 | Gifts made within three years of death do not qualify for any relief and the tax will have to be paid in full . |
| 14 | Originally it covered all gifts , but since 1986 it is restricted to gifts on death or those made within seven years of death . |
| 15 | Among 212 people between the ages of 16 and 65 , only 88 of whom had been disabled before 18 years of age , enquiry was made as to range and frequency of experience in sexual practices generally . |
| 16 | Australia has agreed to pay the government of the Pacific island of Nauru a total of A$120 million ( £50 million ) as recompense for the environmental damage wreaked by 90 years of phosphate mining , most of it carried out while Nauru was administered by Australia as a UN Trusteeship . |
| 17 | It is Joe Lawley 's opinion that we have no option but to dismantle it , but this has to be done with very great care if we are not to compound the damage done by sixty years of weather and so destroy it . |
| 18 | this was supposed to be celebrated after thirty years of rule and then tended to be held at more frequent intervals . |
| 19 | Produced within two years of start of scrutiny . |
| 20 | We have broken with 40 years of tradition to publish this service as a monthly partwork to ensure you receive all the information and informed comment you need , as you need it . |
| 21 | Another recent attempt to produce an incidence curve using 126 patients who were screen positive for polyps , determined that 10% were detected after 40 years of age . |
| 22 | This series attempts to combine the best of traditional and modern mathematics , and is based upon many years of experience teaching both approaches to the subject . |
| 23 | All the strictures detected before 10 years of colitis were benign ( 12/12 ) ; from 10–19 years , 84% were benign ( 21/24 ) ; but at 20 years and over , most ( 61% ) were malignant ( 14/23 ) ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 24 | Beryl Chapman , the author , has written a small workbook based on many years of experience for a variety of people to use , not as a large reference book . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) CPRW 's Director , Dr Neil Caldwell , said , ‘ The case we will present to the inquiry is based on nine years of research . |
| 26 | Their irrelevant experience , coupled with the impossible burdens of office , have contributed to thirty years of policy failure . |
| 27 | Savage , Evans and Savage ( 1981 ) show that adding fingerspelling to lip-spoken messages increases comprehension significantly ; unfortunately , this increase results in only 50 per cent understood at 14 years of age . |
| 28 | The 1988 General Household Survey found that 29% of women and 36% of men divorced during the period 1981–84 had remarried within 2 years of divorce . |
| 29 | Among those divorcing between 1977 and 1980 , 52% of women and 67% of men had remarried within 6 years of divorce . |
| 30 | The next ten years of international arguments about whaling are best known as the period in which many more countries joined or rejoined the IWC , when the Indian Ocean was designated as a whale sanctuary and when the sperm whale was effectively protected after 200 years of exploitation . |