Example sentences of "that [prep] [adj] years [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Major therefore made a stab at the second — though it might seem that after 11 years in office , Mrs Thatcher 's radical government should have had all the time it needed for tax reform . |
| 2 | The latest CBI/NatWest Innovation Trends Survey shows that after two years of decline , expenditure in support of innovation has increased in the last two years . |
| 3 | What is interesting about Isabelle 's case , though , is that after two years of rehabilitation and skilled training she covered the stages of learning that would normally require six years . |
| 4 | Dr Roger Harrison , director of product development for Eli Lilly 's subsidiary Dista Ltd in the UK , told New Scientist that after five years of experience scaling up Lilly 's genetically engineered insulin ‘ we have not perceived any allergic reaction in the chemical processing or packaging units . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Irons said that after 18 years of work , the centre had a demonstrated track record in community care . |
| 6 | There s now hope that after three years in jail , Poole and Mills will once again get a chance to defend themselves , in court . |
| 7 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 8 | Although she stated that after 25 years in government she was keen to seek new challenges , there was widespread speculation that she would resume her political career in 1992 by contesting either the governorship or a Senate seat in her native North Carolina . |
| 9 | Roger , 36 , and a Tory supporter , estimated that after those years of slog and sweat they had debts of £20,000 they had no hope of paying . |
| 10 | It 's the ultimate insult when that politician belongs to a political party that throughout twelve years of Government has washed his hands of any responsibility for the rights and aspirations of people with disabilities . |
| 11 | It can hardly be pure coincidence that within three years of Kinsey 's appearance the limits of permissible sexual explicitness in the arts and entertainment had radically changed and with them the public image of the ideal woman as projected in , above all , films . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never seen that in twenty years of football , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The general story is well known : the director at Ulm saying you must go to better things , your dismissal , months of unemployment , and then the chance of the Aachen post despite the fact that at 27 years of age you were thought far too young for such an important post in German musical life . |
| 14 | 1986 ) found that by 8 years of age only 3.3 per cent of children had never been dry at night but another 4 per cent had relapsed after achieving control ( secondary enuresis ) . |