Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] after [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who work less than 16 hours per week ( or eight hours after five years with one employer ) also lose employment rights such as maternity leave , unfair dismissal protection and redundancy payments . |
| 2 | For the moment , high interest rates have eroded people 's economic confidence in the future but the trends in savings and consumer spending scarcely suggest a lack of economic buoyancy after seven years of real income growth . |
| 3 | Next month Mr Alan Oyston will take early retirement from his job as principal of Stockton and Billingham Technical College after 35 years in education . |
| 4 | The Freers were equally prolific but at a slower rate , with eight branches after 200 years of residence . |
| 5 | Several films of the 1930s were to deal with the very real and widely condemned phenomenon of lynching and in 1935 MGM had finally allowed their imported genius Fritz Lang to make this story after several years of waiting . |
| 6 | MALCOLM and Judy Carvell could n't believe their eyes when they visited their old village after five years in Australia . |
| 7 | The first and most powerful emotion was pride in what this moment meant for so many millions , and especially for their leaders , who had succeeded in making this return after 22 years of isolation conditional on the genuine opening up of cricket to all South Africans . |
| 8 | After the war , Rothesay saw a revival of its fortunes with a contingent of naval ships based in the harbour , depot ships and submarine crews to augment the trippers and holiday makers who returned to their old haunts after six years of weary conflict . |
| 9 | The leases make the publican responsible for the upkeep of the pub and , although they can be assigned to another person after two years , the original holder would be responsible for meeting payments if that person defaulted . |
| 10 | aware that erm the retention of this site is essential for expansion , since the British Library after forty years in construction has room for , will have room only for twelve hundred readers not many more than Great Russell Street while the French National Library which has taken only five years to build and will be completed next year , will have room for three-and-a-half-thousand readers . |
| 11 | RAF Church Fenton near York is to close this month after 55 years . |
| 12 | Mr Malcolm White , head at Norton Primary School , will leave this summer after 38 years of working with children , and Mr Desmond Connell , head at St. Bede 's Primary School in Stockton , will take early retirement at the same time after a 36-year teaching career . |
| 13 | ONE of top all round sportsmen retires this summer after 45 years service with the company . |
| 14 | As growth in France 's economy slows ( to an expected 2% this year after two years near 4% ) , unemployment ( currently 9.2% of the workforce ) is rising and budget receipts dropping . |
| 15 | His last trip in a lifeboat as a crew member was 7 June 1983 , and from that date he joined the shore crew again , retiring this year after 52 years service . |
| 16 | In Billingham Mrs Ruby Beckwith takes early retirement from Ash Trees School next month after 25 years of teaching , and Mrs Margaret Llewellyn based at Billingham Campus retires later this year after 18 years in the profession . |
| 17 | The first substantial alliance of opposition forces since the introduction of democracy in 1987 , the merger restored the former two-party structure after several years of regional political groupings . |
| 18 | Is the Minister aware that he has done a useful service to the House in spelling out the inadequacies of so many of our public services after 12 years under Tory management ? |
| 19 | The Nationwide Festival of Light ( NFoL ) developed largely as a result of the work of one person , Peter Hill , an evangelical Christian who , on returning to this country after several years abroad , was shocked to find explicit sexual material on open sale . |
| 20 | Judge Furner was still presiding over the county courts at Lewes after twenty-two years , and he continued to order defaulting and mostly absent debtors to be punished by having to spend short terms in the county gaol , for some time after New Years Day 1870 . |
| 21 | The message in this charter has as you know , at last received universal acceptance after many years and much determined effort by those concerned . |
| 22 | Mrs Jean Storrow has stepped down as secretary of the Ryedale branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England after 15 years . |
| 23 | He wo n't go back to divisional work after ten years at corporate level . |
| 24 | The BSc or the BEng can also be taken as an ordinary degree after three years . |
| 25 | Others , reflecting popular frustration with empty shops and official bureaucracy after 72 years of socialism , were harsher . |
| 26 | St. Bede 's will say goodbye to Mrs Ann Connell , who is taking early retirement after 32 years , and next month Mrs Christina Haslam will leave Ian Ramsay School and Mrs Maureen Dargue will take early retirement from Bishopsgarth School , both after spending 28 years in the profession . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mutiny by the men , and what could a Petty Officer do if the Ministry in Moscow determined that the sailors of the Storozhevoy should not be freed from their conscripted service after four years at sea , that they should serve another year , what could a Petty Officer to ? |
| 29 | The agreement , under which the government expected to save $1,000 million , included options for the creditor banks ( i ) to make new bond loans carrying a 15-year maturity and seven-year grace period before payment of interest which would be equivalent to 20 per cent of their exposure ; ( ii ) to offer 30 per cent discounts on bonds for loans swaps in return for guarantees on principal and interest payments and additional payments after six years if oil prices rose beyond a specified level ( thought to be $26 per barrel ) ; ( iii ) to cut interest rates to 5 per cent for two years before gradually raising them ; or ( iv ) to allow the Venezuelan government to buy back existing loans at larger discounts ( estimated to be 60-65 per cent ) should the banks be willing to take the loss . |
| 30 | In this series , however , one patient developed cancer after seven years disease duration so perhaps the criteria for entry should be widened . |