Example sentences of "[prep] years [prep] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I ca n't attend to my own accounts after years of accountancy I might as well go and jump in the river . |
| 2 | After years of greatness it was just a place like any other place . |
| 3 | After years of uncertainty it now appears that a new chapter is about to open in the life of Dunkirk Mills . |
| 4 | He read through his first paragraph — after years of novel-writing he found it easier to put it all in the third person . |
| 5 | After years of tests she and her partner still do n't know the cause of their infertility . |
| 6 | After years of study he had qualified in Mining Engineering and had taken up a post as a college lecturer on mining . |
| 7 | Another woman told me about how Sylheti men returned to the village to find a bride : ‘ After years in England they suddenly decide to marry a village girl . |
| 8 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |