Example sentences of "[noun sg] after [art] [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any Associate is recruited with the prospect that he or she will be eligible for partnership after a few years : business development abilities , superior counselling skills in the field and a deep commitment to the firm and its progress are qualities which will rapidly become determinant . |
| 2 | Even putting by a relatively small sum on a regular basis can lead to a healthy nest-egg after a few years . |
| 3 | You lose it , and you 've got the option to take out a new plan after the five years . |
| 4 | During the night after The Best Years of Our Lives scooped the Oscars , she came downstairs to find him sitting alone , with an award in each hand , sobbing . |
| 5 | The girl 's mother has not suffered from the disorder in her daughter 's lifetime and the girl was removed from the register after a few years . |
| 6 | Hugh began as a chargehand in the Teasing Department , where he returned to become foreman after a few years in the Dyed Wool Blending Department . |
| 7 | If this new period brought with it a phase of Spenglerian pessimism after the long years of Victorian optimism , Toynbee did not himself assume that the West was in decline as such , but rather that paradoxically the globalization of Western civilization was being accompanied by a self-consciousness of its own cultural relativization , a process to which Toynbee 's own equally totalizing and relativizing history was designed to contribute . |
| 8 | There had been virtually no further expansion after the fifty years of extraordinary growth in the first half of the sixteenth century . |
| 9 | The main problems of European politics after the Seven Years War were Eastern ones , those of Poland and European Turkey , not , as a generation earlier , those of the Netherlands , the Rhineland or Italy . |