Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] years [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 2 | For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out . |
| 3 | Alec also recalls that his grandfather had been a bank boy with the company for a short period many years before he and Jean began their employment . |
| 4 | Back in the 1950s Jim Corbett gave the tiger ten years before it became extinct . |
| 5 | And Les said I ca n't believe this he said , I he said if you 'd have been in business ten years that I could understand but he said to do it your first |
| 6 | Frances explains : ‘ I decided to go into special education two years after I qualified as a teacher . |
| 7 | The two men argued that 's it 's an abuse of the legal process for the case to come to court 24 years after they allegedly helped the soviet double agent escape from Wormwood Scrubs , but Mr Randall has mixed feelings about their victory . |
| 8 | I began the project with the orchestra several years before we made the recordings . |
| 9 | Sainz 's second RAC victory clinched the fiercely contested World Championship two years after he completed the same double in his Toyota Celica with co-driver Luis Moya . |
| 10 | ‘ I suffered an attack two years before I came here — I shall not take it again , that is certain . |
| 11 | A. T. I passed for Sergeant seventeen years before I got made up . |
| 12 | Hadrian served as archon ( chief magistrate ) of the city four years before he became emperor . |
| 13 | Perhaps the last word might go to L. R. McColvin , whose views on the relationship between book provision and demand make interesting reading 35 years after they were written . |
| 14 | Finally available in English two years after it scandalised Russia , this is the tale of Irina , a femme fatale who sleeps her way to the top echelons of Moscow high life . |
| 15 | He began , ‘ You have been in the House fifteen years and it 's time you were promoted … and I now want you to go to the Board of Education . |
| 16 | Since her brother 's death two years before she 'd worked with her sister-in-law and niece in Ventura , their London art gallery . |