Example sentences of "[noun] after [num] years [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City . |
| 2 | Robert Johnson , Managing Director of Johnson Brothers , will retire from the Board after 34 years ' loyal and successful service with the Group . |
| 3 | At the other end of the world , Shackleton had reached South Georgia Island after two years ' isolation in Antarctica : |
| 4 | The 20% no-claims discount rises to 50% after five years ' no-claims . |
| 5 | She had returned to Somerville to complete her degree course after two years ' school teaching ( ‘ Taught all the sciences Botany , Zoo , Chemistry . |
| 6 | In the field of professional qualifications , a directive is now in force that obliges professional bodies to recognise diplomas awarded in other member states after three years ' training , when granting membership to a particular profession . |
| 7 | ‘ I first got interested in the issue of access for off-road cyclists after two years ' National Series racing . |
| 8 | R. Evershed " Reflections on the Fusion of Law and Equity after 75 Years ' 70 LQR ( 1954 ) 326 |
| 9 | It was in 1945 that I came back to England after five years ' absence in Greece and Egypt . |
| 10 | Section 5 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 allows a wife to oppose divorce after five years ' separation on the grounds that dissolution of the marriage would cause ‘ grave financial or other hardship ’ , but very few such cases have succeeded ( Cretney and Masson , 1990 , pp. 130–1 ) . |
| 11 | Mary has been retired for eight years after 33 years ' service in the Bank at Scarinish . |
| 12 | She visited her rural community after two years ' absence and was impressed by the degree of collective organization and determination shown by her community . |
| 13 | What will happen to nurses who have trained at the taxpayers ' expense in the national health service but who , increasingly , find themselves unable to get a job after three years ' training ? |
| 14 | A graduate will be recognized as a licentiate member and will be granted full professional membership after two years ' appropriate management experience . |
| 15 | Graduates with appropriate subject profiles will be recognized as licentiate members and will be granted full professional membership after two years ' appropriate management experience . |
| 16 | receives a farewell gift from logistics director Mike Cozens on his retirement after 35 years ' service at Barlaston . |
| 17 | With the highest ranking officers of the old FDP under arrest or in hiding and about 150 other senior officers dismissed from their posts , the government placed a two-year limitation on the new commander 's term of office , ordered retirement after 25 years ' service and made regional commanders subject to civilian authority . |
| 18 | — Ten acres of open land in the middle of Aycliffe Industrial Estate , Newton Aycliffe , have been turned into a wildlife site after two years ' hard work . |
| 19 | DOREEN Barnett , seated , with one of her retirement gifts , says farewell to her colleagues in the potting department at Imperial Pottery after 27 years ' service . |
| 20 | To the right lithographer Enid Randles bids farewell to friends and colleagues at Eagle Pottery after 15 years ' service . |
| 21 | Carrick reached that rank after twenty years ' service which included considerable experience in the intermediate rank of supervisor of excise at Forfar before being advanced to his collectorship . |
| 22 | Elena described her feelings on returning to the little town of her birth , San Jose de las Flores , in Chalatenango after three years ' absence . |
| 23 | Mr Barritt had been planning to retire from the executive of Bryson House , formerly known as Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society , next week after 30 years ' service . |
| 24 | OLIVE Booth says goodbye to friends and colleagues on her retirement as a lithographer after 15 years ' service in the decorating department at Tuscan . |
| 25 | As a mark of her popularity , Betty Law had a tremendous farewell when she retired from Douglas Reyburn on 12th September after 45 years ' of unbroken service . |
| 26 | DUNDEE Stobswell staff gave Manager Cubby Lorimer a party send-off when he retired from the Royal Bank after 35 years ' service . |
| 27 | Under the social security reforms , announced on Sept. 6 , various separate pension funds including two virtually bankrupt state funds were to be merged into the heavily indebted state welfare organization IKA ; the retirement age was to be raised in 1998 to 58 for women and to 60 for men ( women being currently eligible for a pension after 15 years ' work and men after 25 years ) . |
| 28 | In April Doreen Greatorex retired from the company after 34 years ' service . |
| 29 | Roy Naylor says goodbye to the Company after 40 years ' service in the industry . |
| 30 | TERRY WILLIAMS has retired as P&O Deputy Group Treasurer after 19 years ' service . |