Example sentences of "[noun] after [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | He joins Max & Co after two years as Technical Director for Trevor Sorbie . |
| 2 | Total sales in 1992 amounted to £636 million compared to £583 million in 1991 , a rise of 9% and the first rise after two years of decline . |
| 3 | Roads after three years of neglect are full of potholes ; even now the general public can not get electric light for streets or houses , though water and sewerage systems were got working very shortly after the liberation . |
| 4 | Keratitis , oculomotor disturbances , haemorrhagic retinopathy , and disc oedema have been reported , generally as isolated cases after many years of chlorambucil use . |
| 5 | Our new Plan is called DOUBLE PAYOUT for a very good reason : not only can you guarantee yourself a cash payout in time for your 65th birthday ( if you 're over 55 , you get your payment after ten years ) , you can assure your family a further cash sum when your death finally does occur . |
| 6 | Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City . |
| 7 | ANNE ROGER After eight years as a Product Manager with Robert Young & Co . |
| 8 | Robert Johnson , Managing Director of Johnson Brothers , will retire from the Board after 34 years ' loyal and successful service with the Group . |
| 9 | I could n't kick him in the teeth after three years of good work and live with myself . |
| 10 | At the other end of the world , Shackleton had reached South Georgia Island after two years ' isolation in Antarctica : |
| 11 | The 20% no-claims discount rises to 50% after five years ' no-claims . |
| 12 | It 's his seventh award after seven years at Old Trafford , but the first under its new title . |
| 13 | On the Thursday morning early I set off to go to Peter Jones before my meeting in Markham Square and I put your birthday money ( for which my thanks ) towards a tiny little black leather bag about the size of the one I came south with , as it fits under my jacket without looking too bulky and my old similar one , also from the John Lewis partnership some years ago , recently gave up the ghost after three years of relentless daily use . |
| 14 | In nineteen eighty three from nineteen fifty three after thirty years of making cheese , they changed his job , I think many of you are ahead of me already , he said I was given a job change and I began working in landscaping , how nice while being interviewed some time ago I was asked what I thought about being giving a job change after thirty years of making cheese and he said well it did n't bother me , I noted , frankly because I did n't like making cheese anyway |
| 15 | Those who work less than 16 hours per week ( or eight hours after five years with one employer ) also lose employment rights such as maternity leave , unfair dismissal protection and redundancy payments . |
| 16 | She had returned to Somerville to complete her degree course after two years ' school teaching ( ‘ Taught all the sciences Botany , Zoo , Chemistry . |
| 17 | LEBANESE President Rene Muawad , killed in a car bomb assassination on Wednesday , was a conciliator who tried to restore Lebanese peace and unity after 14 years of civil war . |
| 18 | ALAN Sugar yesterday bid £112.7m to buy back his Amstrad consumer electronics company from other shareholders after 12 years on the stock market . |
| 19 | Several films of the 1930s were to deal with the very real and widely condemned phenomenon of lynching and in 1935 MGM had finally allowed their imported genius Fritz Lang to make this story after several years of waiting . |
| 20 | I I find this quite extraordinary Chairman after two years of consistently arguing and voting in committee and at council , they appear to have been bought off by the Labour group and now intend to support a fudged half merger , half federation option . |
| 21 | Pavel Zhikarev , who stood down as chairman after 25 years at Sberbank , laid the foundations for the changes that lie ahead . |
| 22 | Driver , was presented with a carriage clock after 22 years with the firm and driver/yardman was presented with a wrist watch after 24 years service . |
| 23 | 4. 1957 saw the return of trams to Squires Gate Lane after many years when the Circular Tour was revived . |
| 24 | FRED LANSDOWN has retired from P&O Cruises after 43 years service . |
| 25 | In Land elections in Hesse on Jan. 20 the CDU-FDP coalition lost its two-seat majority after four years in power [ see p. 35208 for April 1987 Land election and p. 36531 for March 1989 Hesse local elections ] . |
| 26 | He goes to work abroad for Herbert , in the firm in which he had earlier secretly bought his friend a partnership , and returns after many years , meeting Estella , who had been wretchedly married to Bentley Drummle and who is now widowed , in the ruins of Miss Havisham 's house . |
| 27 | Size : Goldfish may reach a length of 20–25cm after 4–5 years . |
| 28 | Mike takes the editor 's chair from Allan Olleveant who has retired from ICI after 41 years service . |
| 29 | In the field of professional qualifications , a directive is now in force that obliges professional bodies to recognise diplomas awarded in other member states after three years ' training , when granting membership to a particular profession . |
| 30 | ‘ I first got interested in the issue of access for off-road cyclists after two years ' National Series racing . |