Example sentences of "after forty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Revealing a touching faith in the stability of money , Rothschild suggested that no interest would be due on the loan but that the capital would be repaid after forty years . |
| 2 | To me , when coming from the south , it means the beginning of the best , the gateway to the wonderful western seaboard , a region of lochs and glens and hills I have come to know so well after forty years of exploratory visits . |
| 3 | Some had much the same sales after forty years as before . |
| 4 | The only group of workers to achieve shorter hours by legislation were the miners , who were granted an eight-hour day in 1908 after forty years ' campaigning . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | After forty years underground , Len is a tragic result of old style mining in conditions thick with coal dust . |
| 7 | After forty years service , Karl Ptak retired from the company in September . |
| 8 | Rod Turnbull , Managing Director , and Keith Bill , Works Director , ( centre ) present Karl Ptak ( left ) with a video recorder on his retirement after forty years service . |
| 9 | Why , why agriculture has been introduced in , into , into the GATT negotiations after forty , after forty years . |
| 10 | After forty years |
| 11 | Rita May ( Mrs Archer ) , whose husband died very suddenly , has been grappling with all the problems of being now on her own after forty years of happy marriage , the last 20 of which were spent at Failand near Bristol , only a short distance from the former family home of Somerville 's Margery Fry . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After forty years prowling the perimeters of western defences this is the first Bear bomber to enter NATO airspace by invitation . |