Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Times Beach unwittingly became contaminated ten years ago , when trucks sprayed the town 's unpaved streets with waste oil containing dioxin , an extremely toxic byproduct of a common herbicide . |
| 2 | I do n't want to hold up this alteration , and I , like Mr , do n't want to wait three years for a decision . |
| 3 | My training as an historian would allow me to save what could be saved and is why I got to work many years ago . |
| 4 | Mrs Craig was welcomed as a member of the Leaders ' Meeting in March 1963 and has given 30 years ' service as secretary of the Women 's Fellowship . |
| 5 | Ken Doyle , Vice-President , has completed 17 years ' service on the Executive Committee since first being elected in 1973 as Wexford Area Secretary . |
| 6 | Although he has completed five years , he will continue for another couple of years until the parish is ready to be handed over to the local clergy . |
| 7 | George has completed 40 years ’ service with the company working in various locations and all his friends and colleagues gathered at Southall to wish him a long and happy retirement . |
| 8 | Geoff has completed 50 years service with Rolls-Royce and associated companies , a record unlikely to be beaten in these modern enlightened times . |
| 9 | Ron Gallacher , Production Director , has completed twenty-five years service with Lyles Carpets . |
| 10 | ( seated , has completed 22 years service — could she be our longest serving secretary ? ) |
| 11 | For example , employers can now pay full pension , without actuarial reduction , at any age between 50 and 70 , provided an employee has completed 20 years ' service with the organisation . |
| 12 | Willie has completed 25 years service , also starting as a bank boy , then via spool setting to become a weaver before he was made redundant at the same time . |
| 13 | ANOTHER long-serving employee to retire is senior design engineer Keith Ashcroft who has completed 36 years in the industry . |
| 14 | ‘ Many simple activities were started to try and make life worth living , ’ said Mr Franks , a painter whose career has included five years in theatre in London and two years with BBC TV in its infancy . |
| 15 | No matter , because of the agreement , the aluminium company has enjoyed 13 years so far of the theoretical value of the plutonium which has not been produced . |
| 16 | That 's why , even today , Man at Dartington has to sweat ten years in front of the furnace before he 's considered a Masterblower . |
| 17 | It has sandblasted 100 years of black soot off Leeds ' fine civic buildings to reveal the pale sandstone underneath , turned much of the city centre into a traffic-free pedestrian zone and made their old manufacturing mills into museums . |
| 18 | Margaret Hamlet 's daughter , Carina , has endured 10 years of painful operations with a cheerful smile and is preparing for surgery again at a pioneering orthopaedic hospital , near the Clwyd/Shropshire border . |
| 19 | Sudan has suffered many years of intermittent internal strife between governments dominated by northerners and separatist movements in the south . |
| 20 | It is true the man is bad , but he has done two years , almost , in prison . |
| 21 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 22 | Their other son , Peter , who has done 13 years in the RAF , served in the Gulf War and , says his proud father , was mentioned in despatches . |
| 23 | Among its assets are the Grand Theatre , its charmingly over-decorated and atmospheric Leeds home , with an Italianate intimacy to its horseshoe-shaped auditorium ; an orchestra and chorus , young in heart , age , and sound , who seems to get better every time I hear them ; and a musical director , David Lloyd-Jones , who has done twelve years of sterling service and will be promisingly succeeded in August by Paul Daniel . |
| 24 | I stopped smoking two years ago and I stopped doing all the silly drugs and drink nearly six years ago , so you naturally gravitate towards quite a healthy diet . |
| 25 | DELTIC No. 9019 ( 55019 ) ‘ Royal Highland Fusilier ’ presently preserved on the Great Central Railway at Loughborough , has celebrated 10 years under the ownership of the Deltic Preservation Society . |
| 26 | A superb mimic , Hopkins has had two years of varied non-stop work , which he loves because ‘ I come alive , I feel it enriches me ’ . |
| 27 | An employee will not be eligible for a redundancy payment unless he has had two years ' continuous employment . |
| 28 | There is a professionally qualified Staff of three in the Learning Support Department , , who has had many years of experience here at Heriot 's , both in the Junior School and in Learning Support ; ; who has more recently joined us after several years experience in Learning Support in other schools ; and who , as Head of Department and an experienced educational psychologist , is responsible for the assessment of our pupils and for the planning of their programmes within the Department . |
| 29 | John Smith has had four years to make sure his facts and figures were right . |
| 30 | Previously he has had nineteen years experience as a Commercial Manager and Senior Purchasing Executive with Anderson Strathclyde in Glasgow . |