Example sentences of "[prep] [num] years [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | X 's secretary , formerly for eight years secretary to Judge now of the European Court of Justice and formerly an advocate who lives just along , came with me to see get the Royal Bank/Univ Alumnus of the Year Award on Saturday . |
| 2 | Jimmy Carter 's presidency , like that of Gerald Ford , began on an optimistic note with commentators deriving satisfaction from the fact that for the first time for eight years president and Congress would be in the hands of the same party . |
| 3 | For 300 years part of the Minister 's stipend in Govan was the first salmon drawn from the river each year , but this was 1902 . |
| 4 | Awards for forty years service were presented to ( left to right ) : Back Row — Alec Watt , Charlie Allan , John Connelly , George White , Tom Walker & Jackie Wilson . |
| 5 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 6 | FRED LANSDOWN has retired from P&O Cruises after 43 years service . |
| 7 | After forty years service , Karl Ptak retired from the company in September . |
| 8 | Rod Turnbull , Managing Director , and Keith Bill , Works Director , ( centre ) present Karl Ptak ( left ) with a video recorder on his retirement after forty years service . |
| 9 | It 's been re-opened today after 2 years renovation and the new tenants will be paying £15,000 this year alone . |
| 10 | retired after 30 years service , working most recently in the maintenance department . |
| 11 | The college 's head of training plans to retire after 30 years service . |
| 12 | Awarded the MBE is Meurig Davies , 54 , of Deganwy , who has been coxswain of Llandudno Lifeboat since 1970 , and retires next April after 30 years service . |
| 13 | — Special presentation parties were held for George Flowers , treasurer of Framwellgate Moor Workmen 's Club , who has retired after 30 years service and for Consett Station Social Club steward Freddie Emmerson on his retirement . |
| 14 | , SE region poultry adviser who has retired after 22 years service and more than 750,000 miles ! |
| 15 | People like David Miskin who has just got his degree after six years study . |
| 16 | Pipe Major John K McAllister is stepping down after 45 years service and Pipe Major George McFetridge after 35 years . |
| 17 | ONE of top all round sportsmen retires this summer after 45 years service with the company . |
| 18 | Laboratory manager retired on , after 35 years service . |
| 19 | Sir — In 1957 , the Wolfenden Committee recommended , after three years study of evidence , that homosexual behaviour between consenting adults in private should no longer be a criminal offence . |
| 20 | AFTER 21 years service has covered his drawing board for the last time to take up the more leisurely pursuits of photography and walking in his retirement . |
| 21 | PROJECT engineer has retired from after 41 years service . |
| 22 | Mike takes the editor 's chair from Allan Olleveant who has retired from ICI after 41 years service . |
| 23 | His last trip in a lifeboat as a crew member was 7 June 1983 , and from that date he joined the shore crew again , retiring this year after 52 years service . |
| 24 | The question may well be asked as to why Henley Golf Club decided to record its history after 80 years existence , when more appropriate landmarks such as its Jubilee year of 1957 or its Diamond Jubilee could have been utilised . |
| 25 | In 1946 the mines were nationalised with the vigorous support of the miners after sixty years resistance by the coal-owners , and shortly afterwards the petty bourgeoisie of the medical profession were organised into a National Health Service . |
| 26 | After ten years building warehouses , they moved into high-rise development in 1965 , and then spent the next ten years making their mark on the Toronto skyline . |
| 27 | Example : Male aged 25 retiring at 65 leaves his company pension scheme , ( which promises a pension of one-sixtieth of his final salary for every year of service ) after ten years service , that is , at age 35 , with a salary of £24,000 . |
| 28 | He had returned to Trinidad in May , 1958 , after 25 years absence and was clearly impressed by the mass support for Eric Williams and the P.N.M. ‘ With a movement like this you can do anything ’ , he informed Williams . |
| 29 | , intake chargehand , who has retired after 36 years service . |
| 30 | Przewalski 's Horse has been reintroduced to its native plains near the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator , after 50 years absence … |