Example sentences of "years of [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not a man to whom gracious speech came easily and his cheeks , roughened and weathered by years of riding on the open moor , twitched as he sought for words . |
| 2 | Now , after all the years of struggling against the critical tide , Anne Rice is proving herself master , or rather mistress , of her own destiny . |
| 3 | The law , the result of years of lobbying by the Roman Catholic church , bans abortions in private clinics and puts strict limits on them in public hospitals . |
| 4 | The My Lai episode should , therefore , be a model to such peoples as the East Germans and the Romanians , who are just emerging from 50 years of living under the secret police . |
| 5 | Many postgraduates after three years of thinking in the abstract feel quite stupid when required to think concretely . ) |