Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years of [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 | Tommy Banks and Roy Hartle reigned through eight years of terror at Bolton under the slogan : ‘ We gives 'em gravel-rash ! ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The motion congratulated the Australian Labour Party on defeating the amazingly right wing Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen after 32 years of power in Queensland . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The exploitation of land and animals has gone on far too long — after fifty years of experimentation , let's move on to better things . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The old pre-war autobahn to Stuttgart only had a double carriageway and after fifty years of use was often under repair . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Julian Haylock [ JH ] : After eleven years of teaching music , and regular contributions to CDR since June 1990 , now full-time Editor . |
| 11 | After eleven years of Thatcherism the government 's macro policies have been transformed — for the worse . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Only once , after eight years of life in the jungle , did we observe this sequence of teaching behaviour . |
| 15 | She should have told her that after thirty-six years of marriage she 'd discovered her husband was a homosexual , the explanation of everything . |
| 16 | The Vietnamese have finally got control of their own country after forty years of war ; defeated the Japs , the French , us , and the most powerful nation in the history of the planet in succession , with bicycles , guns and guts , been bombed back into the bronze age in the process and all you can do is spout some tired nonsense about little yellow men infiltrating the steaming jungles of the Nullarbor Plain and turning the Aussies into Commies ; I think a Highland League side winning the European Cup is marginally more likely . ’ |
| 17 | IBM Corp vice-president , science and technology John Armstrong will retire from IBM on March 31 , after 30 years of service , the firm said . |
| 18 | Being such an advocate of the family , it strikes a sad note , in his biography , that Lord Joseph 's own four children are unmentioned , or that , after 30 years of marriage , he separated from his wife to become , in effect , a single parent himself . |
| 19 | Even after 30 years of marriage to Francine , Sacha says he still finds the heart-throb label difficult to live with . |
| 20 | After 30 years of research , Clarins is still fascinated by the beauty secrets of plants . |
| 21 | Seven known affected cases have had a sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy showing no polyps after 30 years of age ( 32 , 32 , 34 , 35 , 39 , 40 , and 58 years ) . |
| 22 | On Nov. 1 Peng Ming-min , one of Taiwan 's leading dissidents , returned to the island after 22 years of exile in the USA . |
| 23 | The first and most powerful emotion was pride in what this moment meant for so many millions , and especially for their leaders , who had succeeded in making this return after 22 years of isolation conditional on the genuine opening up of cricket to all South Africans . |
| 24 | After some years of controversy ( in which , admittedly , Smith himself did little to smooth things over , tending if anything to exacerbate the situation by his own behaviour ) , he was finally deposed from his chair in 1881 . |
| 25 | Instead of going into private practice , or after some years of practice , the solicitor may seek an appointment . |
| 26 | After 105 years of struggle against brutal colonial rule , the Namibian people are about to begin a new chapter in their history . |
| 27 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 28 | After 12 years of negotiation the half mile footpath from Jepsons Gate to Alance Bridge , Anglezarke has been upgraded to bridleway status — this means that both cyclists and horse riders may use it . |
| 29 | AS the United States voted today for its next President , opinion poll leader Bill Clinton confidently climaxed his gruelling campaign by urging Americans to back new ideas after 12 years of Republican leadership . |
| 30 | Farmers in California now use about 85 per cent of the state 's water while city residents face severe rationing after six years of drought . |