Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Switzerland made up for 500 years of neutrality by setting about the Canadian team , who were unsportingly thrashing them . |
| 2 | ‘ They both have temperaments , ’ says Andris Toppe , who has worked with the couple for eight years as choreographer and rehearsal director . |
| 3 | He had not worked and fought for eight years in order to give Aquitaine away to someone else . |
| 4 | Tommy Banks and Roy Hartle reigned through eight years of terror at Bolton under the slogan : ‘ We gives 'em gravel-rash ! ’ |
| 5 | The couple 's elder son , Jonathan , who served for 12 years at sea with the Dutch Merchant Navy , is a marine engineer . |
| 6 | Also among those released was Aleke Banda , a former secretary-general of the ruling Malawi Congress Party ( MCP ) who had been detained for 12 years without charge ; he was at one time considered to be the heir-apparent of the ageing President Hastings Banda . |
| 7 | AMAN jailed for 12 years for robbery after he was picked out on an identity parade because of his ‘ frightening , evil , and sadistic eyes ’ , was cleared by the Court of Appeal in London yesterday . |
| 8 | Featherstone is another area that once relied on coal and it is also where I taught for 12 years as deputy head of a comprehensive school which I established . |
| 9 | All of these subjects were for year 9 to choose from to study for 2 years at G.C.S.E. level . |
| 10 | Therefore , we conducted a prospective cohort study of patients admitted to hospital with community-acquired pneumonia to identify the predictors of mortality for 2 years after hospital care . |
| 11 | Both were neglected in the 1980s in the constant pressure to find cost-improvement savings , though the first would have resulted in longer-term economies and the latter will result in much bigger bills through cumulative years of neglect . |
| 12 | In addition Hickey served for some years as deputy to the sheriff of Calcutta and became clerk to Sir Henry Russell [ q.v. ] , ultimately chief justice of the Supreme Court . |
| 13 | Much of the development work that found its way into Challenger had been under way for some years on behalf of the Shah of Iran . |
| 14 | I studied mathematics for some years at school and I have not totally forgotten all of them . |
| 15 | For some years after nationalisation , the overall materials supply situation remained bleak . |
| 16 | It is often associated with obesity and may be latent for some years before diagnosis . |
| 17 | Both enjoy heavy soil and dappled shade and can be left undisturbed for some years before lifting , dividing and replanting |
| 18 | The motion congratulated the Australian Labour Party on defeating the amazingly right wing Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen after 32 years of power in Queensland . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , at clubs like Tottenham and Ajax of Amsterdam , fans now celebrate their club 's Jewish associations after suffering years of abuse for the same . |
| 20 | The exploitation of land and animals has gone on far too long — after fifty years of experimentation , let's move on to better things . |
| 21 | It was lovingly tended by its station-master , Mr James , who retired in 1899 after fifty years of service there , during which time he had installed not only flower-beds but a fountain complete with goldfish . |
| 22 | The old pre-war autobahn to Stuttgart only had a double carriageway and after fifty years of use was often under repair . |
| 23 | In 1979 , after eleven years of existence , the Urban Programme was particularly characterized by a network of local-government officials and councillors , voluntary-sector representatives , civil servants and a range of other interested organizations forming a mechanism through which valuable , if somewhat stereotyped , projects might be funded . |
| 24 | Julian Haylock [ JH ] : After eleven years of teaching music , and regular contributions to CDR since June 1990 , now full-time Editor . |
| 25 | After eleven years of Thatcherism the government 's macro policies have been transformed — for the worse . |
| 26 | This promising start to a career was , however , to be abruptly terminated , for after eleven years in practice Playfair died at the age of thirty-nine . |
| 27 | Mrs Chamberlain , who insisted that a dingo had killed the baby , was released after three-and-a-half years in jail . |
| 28 | The privately rented sector is declining fast , marginalized after seventy-five years of rent controls and other restrictions , although the present government seeks to change and revive it through partial deregulation . |
| 29 | Dorothy Mitchum , his wife since 1940 , tried to get him to move away from the West Coast after eight years of marriage , but he did n't want to leave so she and the children left him to go and live in New York . |
| 30 | Only once , after eight years of life in the jungle , did we observe this sequence of teaching behaviour . |