Example sentences of "[prep] a lifetime [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legend is an overworked term in jazz : it can describe a figure like Eubie Blake , who died at 100 after a lifetime 's achievement , or those who died young , their promise unfulfilled , like everyone from Jimmy Blanton to Charlie Parker . |
| 2 | Bunny loves cooking ( she is trained to cordon bleu standard ) and after a lifetime 's experience of entertaining , cooking for her guests presents no problem . |
| 3 | New technology has increased dust and noise levels , and current dust levels suggest that one in 20 miners may develop lung damage after a lifetime 's exposure , and four-fifths according to a British Coal survey in 1983 were exposed to damaging levels of noise . |
| 4 | As for magic , which readers of Frazer 's The Golden Bough might suppose to lie at the very centre of the anthropologist 's interests , I can only say that , after a lifetime 's career as a professional anthropologist , I have almost reached the conclusion that the word has no meaning whatever . |
| 5 | We must never again allow , now that we 're all too painfully aware of the consequences any company to cheat and swindle any working man or woman after a lifetime 's toil from the right to a happy and dignified and financially secure retirement . |
| 6 | William Riley Parker 's monumental biography of Milton , which appeared after a lifetime 's research in 1968 , resolutely portrays Milton 's involvement with the politics of the mid-seventeenth century as an unfortunate distraction . |
| 7 | He had finally petered out after a lifetime 's toil at the loom . |
| 8 | If they give advice , they mainly do it after a lifetime 's experience and because they are anxious to help — though I 'll not deny that some parents can be real nasties as far as their children are concerned . |
| 9 | The price of a car in East Germany can be a significant proportion of a lifetime 's earnings , and the wait for the car can last a significant part of that lifetime . |
| 10 | The true value of a lifetime 's loneliness is then seen as Nothingness , Emptiness , perfectly expressed in the minimal art of traditional ikebana , and in the minimal , marginal existence of the person without ties , without permanent position , situation , family , roots . |
| 11 | The suit bore the wounds and scars of a lifetime 's responsibilities in its faded knees and elbows , its sagging seat and greasy tired lapels . |
| 12 | This is a book of a lifetime 's study undertaken on the Ythan Estuary near Aberdeen of a duck that is , in many respect , unusual . |
| 13 | He suddenly risked losing the crowning glory of a lifetime 's secret endeavour to an unknown malarial " fly-catcher " as the humble naturalist-explorers were known . |
| 14 | In the first place it is proposed that the calculation of earnings-related pension is now based on 20 per cent of a lifetime 's average earnings ( forty years ) rather than 25 per cent of the best twenty years . |
| 15 | The stereotyped view of a homeless person used to be of a drunkard who has slipped into the gutter as a result of a lifetime 's fecklessness and , more recently , the visible evidence of frankly mentally disordered people on city streets , the phenomenon of ‘ Cardboard City ’ and the increasing numbers of people sleeping rough has merely added to the belief that most homeless people are destitute wrecks or foolish youths . |
| 16 | Her decision represented the final abandonment of a lifetime 's loyalty and could not have been easy to take . |
| 17 | After all , they might be selling the results of a lifetime 's work . |
| 18 | As the play builds to its climax , loyalties are strained , and it is only when Alec decides to cast aside the chains of a lifetime 's obedience that his character truly comes to life . |
| 19 | The £30,000 prize will be awarded every two years to a living British writer in recognition of a lifetime 's achievement . |
| 20 | The David Cohen British Literature Prize is presented to a living British writer in recognition of a lifetime 's achievement . |
| 21 | After four weeks of aerobic workouts , you have built the foundations for a lifetime 's health and fitness . |
| 22 | When opened , relates David Gieve in his bicentenary history of the famous tailors , it disclosed a small life insurance policy and a charming letter in which he said he wished the proceeds of the policy to be applied to settling his final account , and if there was a surplus he would be glad for Gieves to keep it as a modest token of his gratitude for a lifetime 's service . |
| 23 | The TUC were insistent , however , that pensioners should make room for younger workers and that retirement should be a time of genuine leisure on an adequate payment from the state as a reward for a lifetime 's work . |
| 24 | A special award went to Stewart at the annual pop ceremony for a lifetime 's achievement , while Hucknall took best British male artist and best British group trophies . |
| 25 | The different occupational categories of railway worker have , to a greater or lesser extent , occupational hierarchies up which they proceed , during a lifetime 's work on the railways , by a combination of aptitude and seniority , with the latter predominating . |
| 26 | Marisa del Re has selected , from a lifetime 's production , a group of works some lent from museums and private collections under the rubric ‘ George Tooker 's Women ’ . |
| 27 | Moreover , almost everyone already has a firm mental picture of the American police that has been acquired from a lifetime 's film- and television-viewing . |
| 28 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 29 | Clasper was soon hauled out of the water by the forces of law and order , something he had never bargained for in a lifetime 's fight against them . |
| 30 | Underline that the purpose is not quickly to arrive at understanding , but to embark upon a lifetime 's exploration . |