Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloucester City councillor Anthony Gilberthorpe was awarded £60,000 when he sued the Daily Mirror and the Sun for suggesting six years ago he 'd undergone an AIDS test in America . |
| 2 | Retired joiner Ted is not just a figurehead , as many presidents are he plays an active part in the running of the club and was recently honoured by the CIU and the club for completing 25 years in the post . |
| 3 | And since she could not say , " About horrid Ben Braithwaite for wasting two years of Linnet 's youth and having his dreary wedding on a day when Gemma would have been better off staying in bed , " she chirruped brightly , " Everything , darlings — because this is what I want us to do . |
| 4 | Well I would say it 's , yes , better , cos mean with th with th these erm containers you see now I mean , we had about say ten years ago we had a man here he used to deal with the all general cargo , all loose cargo from Beirut and all the Mediterranean ports but course now you got the trouble there now that 's a , that 's a cargo that 's , what 's fell away . |
| 5 | Flora had never forgiven her husband for dying ten years before , leaving her badly off . |
| 6 | There are lessons in that for people thinking about applying this year , and who may not intend to take a year off . |
| 7 | He had been retired since 1979 after completing 42 years ' service — 12 of them on the main board . |
| 8 | retired in October after completing 41 years service . |
| 9 | GENERAL clerk Yvonne Bristow from Risley , has retired after completing 13 years in Systems and Equipment Engineering Department . |
| 10 | I was approached by my head of RE , Marie Kelly , last summer , after completing two years of A-level study at St Mary 's College , Wallasey . |
| 11 | Senior Assistant Chief Constable David Cushley leaves the force after completing 37 years service . |
| 12 | retired from , where he was export services manager , in May 1982 after completing 43½ years of loyal and valuable service to the Company . |
| 13 | Dorothy Tyson has been made churchwarden emeritus of St Nicholas 's Church , North Grimston near Malton , after completing 30 years as warden . |
| 14 | After completing 35 years service as a chemist , retired from Louth . |
| 15 | AFTER completing 33 years at Chapelcross Ken Johnston — who is office manager in the Accounts Department — decided to close his own working account and retire . |
| 16 | On October 11 , 1991 , Vernage walked out of prison after serving five years of a seven-year burglary sentence . |
| 17 | THE University of Stirling has elected Dr J D F Miller as Chairman of the University Court to succeed Dr Angus Mitchell , who retired in July 1992 after serving eight years as Chairman of the Court . |
| 18 | Bembenek was released from jail on December 9 after serving 10 years for the murder of Christine Schultz . |
| 19 | He had previously been released after serving 10 years of a 25-year sentence for heroin smuggling in the USA . |
| 20 | After serving two years of her sentence , she was released on probation . |
| 21 | Jimmy Stevens , the leader of a secessionist rebellion in Vanuatu in 1980 [ see pp. 30642-44 ] , was released from prison on Aug. 19 after serving 11 years of a 14@1/2-year sentence for treason . |
| 22 | Jaime Milans del Bosch y Ussía , who had led the abortive coup attempt of 1981 , was released on June 30 , 1990 , after serving nine years of his 30-year sentence [ see pp. 31765-66 ; 32804 ] . |
| 23 | Judith Ward , jailed for the M-sixty-two IRA coach bombing in nineteen seventy-four , has been released on bail by the Appeal Court after serving eighteen years in jail . |
| 24 | Power and John Walker — were released last year after serving 17 years for the IRA massacre . |
| 25 | Only two other " reformed terrorists " convicted of murder had ever been pardoned in West Germany : Klaus Jünschke [ see p. 28922 ] , who was released on July 16 , 1988 , after serving 16 years in prison and Manfred Grashof [ ibid. ] , who was released on March 1 , 1989 , after serving 17 years . |
| 26 | He became general secretary in 1982 after serving 17 years as secretary of the Durham branch . |
| 27 | The divorced man was arrested yesterday as he left Armley jail , near Leeds , after serving six years over the kidnapping of a young Midlands girl . |
| 28 | He succeeds Peter Philp who stood down this year after serving six years as President . |
| 29 | He succeeds Peter Philp who stood down this year after serving six years as President . |
| 30 | Police reopened the file on the 1975 killing after Stephan Kiszko was cleared of the crime by the Court of Appeal after serving 16 years of a life sentence . |