Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not worked and fought for eight years in order to give Aquitaine away to someone else . |
| 2 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 3 | A BRITON jailed for eight years in Iraq after being seized by border guards on the frontier with Kuwait has been named as Simon Dunn , 23 . |
| 4 | In 1794 her father took a commission in the army , serving for some years in Ireland . |
| 5 | This promising start to a career was , however , to be abruptly terminated , for after eleven years in practice Playfair died at the age of thirty-nine . |
| 6 | Mrs Chamberlain , who insisted that a dingo had killed the baby , was released after three-and-a-half years in jail . |
| 7 | Deputy Prime Minister Alfonso Guerra González resigned on Jan. 12 after eight years in office ; as of the end of January he had not been replaced . |
| 8 | Dr Brynley Roberts , 62 , of Aberystwyth , who retires as librarian of the National Library of Wales next April after eight years in office , also receives the CBE . |
| 9 | Eden Pastora Gómez , the former leader of the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance ( ARDE ) contra group , returned to Nicaragua on Dec. 3 , 1989 , after eight years in exile . |
| 10 | aware that erm the retention of this site is essential for expansion , since the British Library after forty years in construction has room for , will have room only for twelve hundred readers not many more than Great Russell Street while the French National Library which has taken only five years to build and will be completed next year , will have room for three-and-a-half-thousand readers . |
| 11 | In Sweden the Social Democrats were ousted from power in 1976 after forty-five years in office by an alliance of ‘ bourgeois ’ parties , although they returned to office in 1982 . |
| 12 | Williams continued to gather public support throughout 1954 , ( also the year that Learie Constantine returned after 30 years in England ) , and it seems that he was now consolidating his position in preparation for a decisive political move , but while he was still involved with the Caribbean Commission in an apolitical capacity , this move would be put on hold . |
| 13 | Oliver Tambo , president of the African National Congress ( ANC ) , returned to South Africa on Dec. 13 after 30 years in exile , marking a further step in the ANC 's return to a full political role in the country . |
| 14 | More than any Prime Minister since Lloyd George , Mrs Thatcher appeared justified in proclaiming after some years in office , ‘ I have changed everything ’ . |
| 15 | After 12 years in power , the Tories had run out of steam . |
| 16 | THE All England Club chairman , R E H ‘ Buzzer ’ Hadingham , 73 , is to step down in December after six years in charge of Wimbledon . |
| 17 | At the general election on Oct. 27 , 1990 , the National Party , led by Jim Bolger , defeated the ruling Labour Party , led by Mike Moore , and returned to power after six years in opposition [ see p. 37781 ] . |
| 18 | After early years in Jamaica and Erriboll , Scotland , the family settled in London . |
| 19 | Even without the change of Government which brought Labour to power in October 1964 after thirteen years in Opposition , the Royal Commission on the Penal System would have been grievously hampered by its over-ambitious terms of reference and a divided membership . |
| 20 | The flags which flew above the Place de la Concorde offices of the Federation Internationale du Sport Automobile ( FISA ) in central Paris hung limply in sympathy as Balestre departed his office after thirteen years in power . |
| 21 | Yet after 10 years in operation at the Eastman Kodak Company , satisfaction with the process remains high for idea originators , with over 90% of those responding to surveys indicating that they would continue to use OI . |
| 22 | Ortega conceded the defeat of the FSLN , after 10 years in power , in a dignified speech on Feb. 26 , after the Supreme Electoral Council had declared the results with 80 per cent of returns counted . |
| 23 | It has been confirmed that Francis Lorentz , chairman and chief executive of state-owned Groupe Bull SA , will this week retire after 10 years in office : his successor will be Bernard Pache , a mining engineer who is currently managing director of Charbonnages de France . |
| 24 | He joins the Gateshead company after 10 years in Australia working for a similar electric motor company . |
| 25 | Upon his release after 26 years in jail he will discover that he is more free than either his wife , Albertina , or his journalist son , Zwelakhe , who are both ‘ restricted ’ by the authorities under the long-standing state of emergency . |
| 26 | Next month Mr Alan Oyston will take early retirement from his job as principal of Stockton and Billingham Technical College after 35 years in education . |
| 27 | On March 31 the Renault car plant on the Seguin island in the Seine at Billancourt , south-west Paris , was closed after 94 years in operation , ending an era of French industrial history . |
| 28 | In September , after three years in New Zealand , I had the opportunity to spend one month back in Britain and was able to review the changes I had heard previewed in March 1989 . |
| 29 | There s now hope that after three years in jail , Poole and Mills will once again get a chance to defend themselves , in court . |
| 30 | DR HOWARD Cromie is to retire from the active ministry in May after 31 years in Railway Street Presbyterian Church , Lisburn . |