Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years of [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After 13 years of it I knew I wanted to go into painting full-time , ’ he said . |
| 2 | My husband , when I met him , looked intensely lived-in , and after seventeen years of me , ‘ squatted-in ’ would be more the term for it . |
| 3 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 4 | For example one notices over many years of you know having teaching I must have taught hundreds now in different class groups , ca n't help noticing that although you 're the same , subject is the same , the syllabus is the same , the reading list is the same , the room is the same , the time of day may be the same , but the groups are completely different . |
| 5 | She held on to twenty years of him . |