Example sentences of "[num] years [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
| 2 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 3 | He put her on probation for three years on condition she remained an in-patient at a psychiatric hospital . |
| 4 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 5 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
| 6 | In his 50 years of Trotskyism he made not one small dent in the capitalist system , but he mortally wounded the movement he claimed to lead . |
| 7 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
| 8 | My father died when I was quite young and at ten years of age I went into a poor old orphanage where I stayed four years . |
| 9 | In his ten years with Intelligence he rose to the rank of colonel , but his superiors ' prejudice against his British ancestry and education became unbearable and he resigned to take up the post offered to him with UNACO . |
| 10 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |
| 11 | For ten years after graduation he worked as a curate in Somerset , most of the time as assistant to his father . |
| 12 | Even the Sun avoids the pejorative term , ‘ girl ’ , for this 23-year-old woman whose reputation comes out unscathed from the media coverage — Brute was burned alive by mother who lived in fear SEX SLAVE JAILED FOR KILLING SADIST LOVER ( Daily Mail ) ; SEX-SLAVE MUM GETS 3 YEARS IN JAIL She burned kinky lover ( Sun ) . |
| 13 | you think god , you know , and after five years of marriage you think well have we tried everything , yeah |
| 14 | During his five years in office he combined vigorous measures to suppress continuing disorder with efforts to promote a programme of reforms which he hoped would prevent a recurrence of the upheaval of 1905 . |
| 15 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 16 | In 40 years of film-making they have had not one disagreement . |
| 17 | Venables , 50 , is the only player to have represented England at every level from schoolboy to full international , and during 15 years in management he has won two major trophies the Spanish championship with Barcelona and the FA Cup with Tottenham . |
| 18 | Over his remaining thirty years of life he tried to fulfil the Hashemite ambition to rule the whole Arab Levant . |
| 19 | Leaning forward in the rattan chair , on the after deck , he said , ‘ I tell you , Doctor ’ — he always addressed me thus , showing the respect of one professional man for another ‘ in over thirty years at sea I 've become a specialist in islands . |
| 20 | After eighteen years of pain I have decided to leave . |
| 21 | I could kiss the man who told me that , two years of happiness he 's given me . |
| 22 | Edward 's first year at Oxford , with its long hours of set daily lectures and prepared reading , its loneliness punctuated by long walks , longer letters , and occasional forays in search of new friendships , formed a gentle transition from the two years of freedom he had enjoyed , since leaving St. Paul 's , towards the severer demands that family and social demands were to make upon him . |
| 23 | In the first two years of office she had to give way to Cabinet pressure on pay rises for MPs , the scale of public spending cuts in November 1981 , gas prices , the Rhodesian settlement , the compromise on the EEC budget ( faced with the implicit resignation of Lord Carrington , who had negotiated it , if she did not accept ) and , while Mr Prior was at Employment , action against trade union immunities and the closed shop . |
| 24 | I , it , I , twice two years on trot I 've booked for him to go with me , and he wo n't go , he cancels it every time . |
| 25 | Mr Recorder Shaun Spencer QC placed Ninham on probation for two years on condition he takes medication to control his libido . |
| 26 | ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again . |
| 27 | ‘ For the first half-dozen years of Scrutiny I had no post and no salary , and was hard put to it to make a living , ’ he once wrote in characteristic vein . |
| 28 | In fact there 's several chapters dedicated to software , particularly educational software and Toni Mitchell is obviously passionate about her subject … ‘ in 20 years of teaching I have never seen any teaching tool or method that captures the imagination and excites the enthusiasm and interest of the children as much as quality computer software . ’ |
| 29 | But at 20 years of age I had no scruples about rubber gloves and bleach , and dealt with the problem straight away . |
| 30 | Henrietta 's frail constitution could not withstand the rigours of childbirth , however , and after seven years of marriage she died soon after giving birth to their son , John . |