Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a hundred years of true blue Conservative control , the electors decided they wanted a change . |
| 2 | Wales ’ oldest and deepest mine is at Blaenavon , known as Big Pit , closed as a colliery in 1980 after a hundred years of production . |
| 3 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 4 | Then he said I should see whether that was so after a hundred years in a glass coffin . |
| 5 | Although most children remain well as long as they stick to their diet , a few seem to relapse after a few years for no apparent reason . |
| 6 | After a few years of gutting chickens for 14 hours a day , they are often thrown out of work by younger and cheaper competitors . |
| 7 | If such soil as this is covered in grass , after a few years of grazing it degrades into desert . |
| 8 | After a few years of indecision Nero finally chose military glory . |
| 9 | After a few years of that , I found myself becoming the kind of man I always hated . |
| 10 | But after a few years of this , you ca n't really see any attraction in it , except the security , of course . |
| 11 | Frequently , the newer and more expensive designs prove , after a few years of use ( and a few hundred hapless patients ) , to give results substantially worse than this and are quietly withdrawn from the market despite initial optimism over their theoretical advantages . |
| 12 | After a few years of management experience gained in clay-making departments and a brief spell as a studio artist with Johnson Matthey , Roy felt the need for further managerial training . |
| 13 | After a few years in atomic energy research he then discovered his vocation as teacher and enthusiast as a lecturer in chemistry at Birkenhead Technical College , where he also voluntarily taught about theatre , literature and music in a humanities section . |
| 14 | After a few years in management , you know who they are , and it will be put right . ’ |
| 15 | Similar criteria have often applied to the education officer who , after a few years in the classroom . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |
| 18 | After a dozen years in the business Keener looks with particular affection on the recordings he has done with Leonard Slatkin , especially the Elgar and Vaughan Williams Symphonies . |
| 19 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 20 | Not even the dehumanizing process of Soviet medical training could eradicate the myths and legends of a thousand years of Russian Christianity . |
| 21 | Others want it to become a museum , preserving forever a taste of a thousand years of incarceration |
| 22 | As a personal evaluation of a hundred years of Jewish-Greek contacts this was a remarkable statement . |
| 23 | Marine and Quaternary Geology : This group is concerned with the study of fundamental physical , chemical and biological processes which enable Quaternary climatic and environmental changes and their causes to be inferred on timescales of a million years to less than one year . |
| 24 | His spoken English was perfect , as was his comprehension , the result of a few years at Oxford studying languages — four in all . |
| 25 | An early hostility to capitalist oppression and a refusal to contemplate co-operation with social democratic reformers was transformed in the space of a few years into a wide-ranging crusade against fascism in which geniune sympathisers of whatever creed were welcome participants . |
| 26 | Seismic data were returned to Earth over a period of a few years from these five stations , though they were reduced to four when the Apollo 11 station stopped working . |
| 27 | For one thing , the war was only a matter of a few years in the past and the number of potential suitors must have been severely limited , especially of the right intellect and calibre . |
| 28 | There was never a more astonishing Revolution accomplished in the internal system of any country than there has been within the compass of a few years in that of England … |
| 29 | ( I live in a town which has stayed the same for a thousand years beyond skirt-lengths and cars . ) |
| 30 | The Zombie ( played by a well-known Horror Film Specialist ) had walked for a thousand years in a subterranean cavern which was broken open by an earthquake in Lisbon . |