Example sentences of "[adv] many year of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had that rustic look which only many years of weathering can attain . |
| 2 | But the little boy , having missed so many years of schooling , was backward in his lessons , and Edouard feared that he would be teased . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought I deserved better after so many years of service , ’ he said . |
| 4 | In England the criticism of continued military activity by John Wyclif , the opposition to war expressed by men of Lollard sympathies such as William Swynderby , the lassitude provoked by so many years of conflict , mirrored in some of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower , are indicative both of people 's reflection regarding the morality of war and the ways in which it was being fought , and of the apparent futility of allowing it to continue along its present drift , no real advantage accruing to either side in spite of the great cost , both human and financial , to all . |
| 5 | With so many years of golf behind me , it was a task to recall my best round . |
| 6 | Why should we worry when spacefarers have not suffered any serious harm in so many years of space travel ? |
| 7 | Moreover , strikes were illegal , wages were controlled by the state and people were anxious to improve their standard of living after so many years of rationing and privation . |
| 8 | Thus the time-honoured name of Revenue Cutter was dropped after so many years of tradition . |
| 9 | She was tempted to use the weather as an excuse to postpone her visit to J. Pringle & Sons , but the work ethic that had carried her successfully through so many years of study and so many examinations now exerted its leverage on her conscience once more . |
| 10 | I must admit at this stage I though I had cracked it but I should have known after so many years of breeding fish , success is not guaranteed . |
| 11 | The prospect of real freedom after so many years of oppression is exciting as well as daunting . |
| 12 | Those ‘ great ’ butlers like Mr Marshall who have it , I am sure , acquired it over many years of self-training and the careful absorbing of experience . |
| 13 | Their knowledge ( rules , facts and ideas ) has been acquired by study , investigation , observation and experience over many years of work in a particular domain , i.e. maintenance of a certain type of aircraft system/equipment . |
| 14 | There were also many years of frustration in my youth when the business was very small and I was bubbling with ideas , bubbling with energy and desperate to get things to happen but could n't in the very dull environment of the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 15 | ‘ How many years of peace have they got left ? ’ |
| 16 | She watched the other people , and wondered how many years of observation it would take her to learn to distinguish the tarts from the students , for there were clearly some of each within her range . |
| 17 | Although President Barco is given credit for good intentions , the fear is that his move has come too late : by now , the money at stake is too big , the drug barons too firmly entrenched in Colombian society , and the state institutions too deeply compromised by too many years of complacency , if not complicity . |
| 18 | We urge the Government to make swift progress with this issue , for there have already been too many years of procrastination during which we have paid a high price in terms of serious and irreversible environmental damage . |
| 19 | Now , the signs of that beauty are still discernible but tend to be offset by the layers of crumbling stucco , stone or woodwork resulting from too many years of neglect . |