Example sentences of "[prep] year of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , after years of preparation , S.P.E.S. , is publishing a monumental work on the art of the Florentine silversmiths , Argenti fiorentini dal XV al XIX secolo , the first ever full-scale study of the subject , by D. Liscia Bemporad in three volumes . |
| 2 | So , after years of preparation , Columbus finally set sail in 1492 . |
| 3 | She , on the other hand , having finally regained her own life and independence after years of child-rearing , wanted to turn her attention to her own needs . |
| 4 | As in any large money-making industry there are crooks and con men masquerading as successful industry figures , and there is an understandable temptation to sign a deal with absolutely anyone after years of rejection . |
| 5 | If I ca n't attend to my own accounts after years of accountancy I might as well go and jump in the river . |
| 6 | How many times did wee Norrie tell us that the only thing standing in the way of recovery was the uncertainty caused by the election when in truth the economy was wrecked after years of mismanagement , the pound weak because our manufacturing base had been destroyed ? |
| 7 | After years of frustration in the European arena , Wednesday 's success has finally carried Rangers to the threshold of untold riches . |
| 8 | Experience with practical calculations helps , but even after years of work one usually remains this side of infallibility . |
| 9 | The number of mature students returning to study after years of work or undertaking retraining programmes in the colleges has grown and is likely to continue to do so . |
| 10 | The latest investigations also relate to incidents in 1988 when Mrs Mandela had returned to Soweto after years of banishment by the authorities to a remote town in the Orange Free State and had surrounded herself with a bodyguard of ‘ football club ’ thugs . |
| 11 | This has proved an unfounded anxiety since the design and management of all full-time courses in the polytechnic sector were and remain the responsibility of persons who qualified via the Institution 's external examination system and entered teaching as qualified surveyors after years of service in the public or private sector . |
| 12 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 13 | It represented tangible proof of her achievements after years of struggle in a male-dominated profession . |
| 14 | The other thing about celebrity , of course , is that it can earn you a decent living — although usually only after years of struggle , as with most jobs . |
| 15 | After years of struggle against the French , in 1946 the Syrians secured independence but were soon engaged in a new conflict — with the state of Israel created on the ruins of neighbouring Palestine . |
| 16 | You 're speaking as a supporter whose team has suddenly came good after years of mediocrity , not one whose team is struggling after years of success . |
| 17 | The new wave is not in the heroic mould of famous ‘ refuseniks ’ like Anatoly Scharansky , Ida Nudel and Josef Begun , who finally arrived in Israel after years of persecution , exile and imprisonment . |
| 18 | If , after years of persecution , these huge , lumbering , myopic creatures are sometimes a mite cantankerous , who can blame them ? |
| 19 | After years of persecution as loyalists in independent America , they had fled their lush Carolina plantation with their slaves , believing the Bahamas to be British , rich and fertile . |
| 20 | But this neatly organised hierarchy of the document is misleading ; the listing was made because the archbishops were unsure of their rights after years of maladministration when many of the services had ceased or been exchanged for cash payments . |
| 21 | And even after years of existence here , should we now start doing any of those things ? |
| 22 | After years of greatness it was just a place like any other place . |
| 23 | Their method has been perfected after years of experience dealing with female victims of violence . |
| 24 | And of course everybody after years of gloom were all absolutely er treating everybody you know . |
| 25 | In 1945 one could have been excused for believing that scarcely a wall could be left standing in the German capital after years of night raids by the RAF . |
| 26 | ROCK star Dave Stewart was yesterday declared a civic hero in the city he quit as a teenager after years of school bullying pushed him close to a nervous breakdown . |
| 27 | Hello and Goodbye is a powerful play about a brother and sister who come together again after years of separation . |
| 28 | It was an impossible transition for many of them to make after years of travel . |
| 29 | In 1989 , after years of discussion within the EC , a specific merger regulation was introduced . |
| 30 | ‘ The chickens have really come home to roost , after years of overproduction from publishers , ’ Mr Coward said . |