Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] years of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For 22 years of my married life I maintained these two old people . ’ |
| 2 | To Bob Wyatt 's dismay Warwickshire , after eight years of his leadership , opted for , as they put it , a more adventurous captain . |
| 3 | After 75 years of its bonds and loans were repaid , but basically without proper regard to the full indebtedness that the Club had to who was probably its best friend . |
| 4 | In years to come Strachans contribution will grow as people begin to look back at where we ( Leeds ) were before he came , and where/what we are now after 4/5 years of his presence ? |
| 5 | ‘ After 13 years of it I knew I wanted to go into painting full-time , ’ he said . |
| 6 | My husband , when I met him , looked intensely lived-in , and after seventeen years of me , ‘ squatted-in ’ would be more the term for it . |
| 7 | We evaluated their impact after five years of their use in Belgium . |
| 8 | But to protect the fruits of 7 years of their labour , they feel they have to stay at the site . |
| 9 | And for many years of their marriage it seemed that she was . |
| 10 | Curiously enough , an unidentified author ( William Nesbit ? ) in the second ( 1818 ) edition of Authentic Memoirs , biographical , critical and literary , of the most eminent physicians and surgeons in Great Britain , included Coleman as ‘ Royal Veterinary Professor ’ and refers to the College as ‘ the Royal Veterinary College , Pancras ’ ( for many years of its life , the College was known as the St Pancras School , the term ‘ Camden Town ’ coming into use much later ) . |
| 11 | With three years of his contract still to run , he should beat that easily . |
| 12 | The League , who will discuss Grima 's case today , has confirmed that Widnes are within their rights to demand a fee even though they have cancelled his registration with two years of his contract left . |
| 13 | He lived in the town of Cambridge for more years of his life than in any other town , and this though he managed during his life to live in nine different towns and in one village . |
| 14 | Around three in ten of those who reported paid work within 10 years of their first birth had returned to a different type of job that was likely to have been worse paid than the one they last held before the maternity . |
| 15 | As Clark ( 1986 ) points out , the project was considered to be a failure in both technical and economic terms within 10 years of its inception , not least because of resulting poor drainage , increasing soil salinity and excessive silting . |
| 16 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 17 | He was later promoted to depute director and within six years of his return , he found himself director of the newly-created Lothian Regional Council 's Education Department . |
| 18 | If this has to be done it must be ( for technical reasons ) within three years of his father 's death — by 30 May 1977 . |
| 19 | His letters , published within three years of his death , were widely read in Scottish homes . |
| 20 | Stalin had seemed immortal , but within three years of his death Khruschev had begun to demolish his myth . |
| 21 | Emilie Candeille , opera singer , grande tragedienne and composeress , is represented by the first performance in 199 years of her Piano Concerto in D , Op2 . |
| 22 | The most notorious of these streets , Pimlico off Church Street , was a derelict slum within ten years of its building around 1820 , and by the 1870s it had to be demolished . |
| 23 | This type of mortgage is only available to those in non-pensionable employment , since , in order to secure the tax-free cash sum , contributions must be made to a personal pension plan , and is really only suitable for borrowers who are within 25 years of their preferred retirement date . |
| 24 | Coleman published little in his long life — all his works came out within nine years of his appointment as Professor . |
| 25 | Within twelve years of his entry into Parliament Disraeli had become the leader of the Tory Party in the House of Commons : an amazing achievement , due partly to an unforeseen political cataclysm , but in the main to sheer political skill , patience and courage . |
| 26 | As a rule , they tend only to be recommended for people starting a plan within five years of their retirement . |
| 27 | But Cnut was considerably more fortunate in the sources produced within 150 years of his death , for the explosion of literary activity which began shortly after the Norman Conquest , and which was to ensure that no future reign would be as badly documented as those of Cnut and his sons , also cast its light back to his period . |
| 28 | Now , within two years of its discovery , the snail 's survival is threatened by a Thames Water Authority scheme . |
| 29 | Where a licensing board has refused an application for a new licence in respect of any premises , the board shall not , within two years of its refusal , entertain a subsequent application for a new licence in respect of the same premises unless the board , at the time of refusing the first-mentioned application , makes a direction to the contrary . |
| 30 | The Meech Lake Accord , a package of amendments to the Canadian Constitution , collapsed on June 23 , having failed to achieve the necessary ratification by the legislatures of all 10 provinces within two years of its passage by the federal House of Commons ( on June 22 , 1988 ) . |