Example sentences of "[adv] after [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What you mean is : there 's no chance of my being kept on after the three years are up . ’ |
| 2 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 3 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |
| 4 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 5 | The European balance of power was thus after the Seven Years War a more subtle problem in many ways than in the first half of the century . |
| 6 | I 'm f used to that now after a few years . |
| 7 | Even after a thousand years or more , evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches . |
| 8 | Fraser ( of Neill 's printing office ) said in his evidence to the Fair Wages Committee in 1908 that it was " three years , but they are not expert immediately after the three years " . |
| 9 | Work ended abruptly after a few years — the builders did n't even bother to take their ladder away . |
| 10 | Finishing only , and er then after a few years the manufacturing side of the industry adopted the cost of living different from ours but they adopted a cost of living bonus in in a degree rather different from our . |
| 11 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 12 | The Constitution was open to revision after seven years , and then after every 10 years , but only with the consent of the Melanesian majority . |
| 13 | In other words , I C I , Ingaselectric , A E I , all the big firms , all the er coal mines , all the British Rail , well British Rail in those days , and these large firms trained large numbers of apprentices and then after the five years they tipped you out , I 'm sorry I 'm going back a long while , into what they call an improver status and then you could either come back to the firm or you could go , stay where you were . |