Example sentences of "[adv] after [art] [num] 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 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even after a thousand years or more , evidence of pagan beliefs is still widespread in churches . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | The Constitution was open to revision after seven years , and then after every 10 years , but only with the consent of the Melanesian majority . |
| 7 | 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 . |