Example sentences of "[adj] year [prep] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
| 2 | It 's because we 're investing a lot of capital expenditure to put right some years of neglect I might say . |
| 3 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 4 | At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain . |
| 5 | So if you were in the and you were forty years of age you were n't safe for going to the to go to the army . |
| 6 | The first few years at school I learnt nothing — |
| 7 | A few years after publication I was introduced to a well known photographer at a party . |
| 8 | At 47 years of age I ca n't see why I should have to live off me mother … to that extent . |
| 9 | With over 10 years of experience we are able to provide a complete service from initial site survey through to an expert installation . |
| 10 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
| 11 | In the summer of his second year at university he worked at a butcher 's . |
| 12 | The winter of his second year of university he began to do some special research on the Gulf for a project he 'd been assigned . |
| 13 | Well you could have stuck , you know , seven or eight years of age you could n't even do it then in case it hurt the kid 's mother or something like that , or whatever it was . |
| 14 | Mr Wang , 23 , looking relaxed but pale , told reporters that despite his three-and-a-half years in prison he still believed in the principles of democracy . |
| 15 | After two solid years of operation we would n't change the system , at least so far as newsletter production is concerned . |
| 16 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
| 17 | Aye , beauty , oh I 'm getting good at that , you see , it 's all these years of practice I 've had . |
| 18 | He was First Commissioner in the Derby Governments of 1852 , 1858–9 and 1866–8 , and in his later years in Parliament he held various other government posts . |
| 19 | He put her on probation for three years on condition she remained an in-patient at a psychiatric hospital . |
| 20 | Then , during his three years in exile he came for the first time into close contact with the main exponents of the Gregorian ideal , and we must ask how far and in what circumstances he adopted the phraseology of the Gregorian reformers ; then , whether he adopted the theoretical structure which their favourite phrase libertas ecclesiae expressed , or adopted the phrase for use only in exceptional circumstances and for special reasons . |
| 21 | I do not mean it in any ideological sense or historical sense or to be provocative but it 's very , it 's with very deep feelings that I speak to you today because you may not understand it but for me , after thirty three years in exile I was able to return to South Africa in nineteen ninety one and one of the first activities to which I was invited was the annual meeting of Cosatu And so when we say comrades in that sense , and thank you as comrades we mean it as comrades in arms . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But after so many years in showbusiness it was n't surprising . |
| 24 | After 17 years of service it was a humiliating experience . |
| 25 | To determine , say , the incidence of deafness in men between 50 and 55 years of age we really need more of a cine film approach . |
| 26 | After long years of thought we are conditioned to respond to this imperceptible stimulus of beauty , and we see the imagery in the small and insignificant , and feel the sensation of ecstasy that it causes . |
| 27 | Though Jaq , in his role as a Trader , pretended to patronize a mistress , the reality was that during his thirty-five years of life he had only bedded one woman — almost on an experimental basis so that he should at least be acquainted with the spasm of sex . |
| 28 | In his 50 years of Trotskyism he made not one small dent in the capitalist system , but he mortally wounded the movement he claimed to lead . |
| 29 | After 50 years of experience we have perfected the art of passenger hospitality on long flights . |
| 30 | He loved stand-up comedy , but over 50 years in showbusiness he also became well-known for his roles in some of the best British comedy films and tv shows . |