Example sentences of "years of [noun] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , I was assured , 20 years of experience goes into the planning , with every bit of detail given on route maps . |
| 2 | It was a very dowdy dress , and old , and it smelled of mothballs and , faintly , of years of perspiration soaked into the fabric , but it had been well and carefully preserved . |
| 3 | Moreover , a collective managerial guilt was at work , attempting to ‘ compensate for the forty years of Francoism suffered by the mass of the workforce ’ . |
| 4 | In the midst of concrete towers and slabs , the office blocks and apartment buildings of the new Perugia , stood an old stone farmhouse , squat and sturdy , with its attendant chicken coops and vegetable garden , the walls dyed green by years of sulphur sprayed on the vines running up to form a pergola . |
| 5 | The accounts , accompanied by scrupulously clear distribution maps , provide eyewitness descriptions of the ecology and behaviour of cotingas , based chiefly on 20 years of fieldwork conducted by the author and his wife . |
| 6 | The paper 's first two years of existence coincided with the United Tanganyika party 's campaign for African support , and it gave the party a considerable amount of publicity . |
| 7 | It also includes people who were resident in the United Kingdom on or after 10 December 1974 and in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the relevant time falls ( see IHTA 1984 , s267 ) . |
| 8 | What planning should he undertake with respect to inheritance tax — bearing in mind that under the deemed domicile provisions in IHTA 1984 , s267(1) the taxpayer is deemed to be domiciled in the United Kingdom if he was so domiciled three years immediately preceding his death or he was resident in the United Kingdom in not less than 17 of the 20 years of assessment ending with the year of assessment in which the death occurs ? |
| 9 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 10 | They were however years of pleasure compared with the five which were to follow , when , with his successor Neville Chamberlain first out of 10 , Downing Street and then dead in six months , Baldwin became a target of resentment for the perils to which the nation found itself exposed . |
| 11 | No major country house has faced a greater catalogue of danger and decay than Barlaston , with the combined problems of twenty years of rain cascading through the roof and repeated bouts of coal mining subsidence . |
| 12 | Following as it did two years of bitterness caused by the government 's political intervention in food distribution , the tax provoked an immediate and direct response from large sections of the movement . |
| 13 | As at 1 January 1992 , the latest date for which we have information , there were 7,647 personnel under 18 years of age serving in the armed forces . |