Example sentences of "after twelve years " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twelve years in management , I have n't yet had a tape arrive which I thought I could do anything with . |
| 2 | Now after twelve years as convener at the huge Merseyside plant where he had effectively established shop-floor control after a long and bitter struggle , he had been thrown out by his own union members . |
| 3 | Heath sold it to Home as a symbol to the country that , after twelve years in office , the Conservatives were still capable of radical action . |
| 4 | He did not worry too much in those early years of his married life , telling himself that some women were slow to conceive , but after twelve years and his wife still childless , he had to accept the painful fact that she never would have any . |
| 5 | This , after twelve years ' dedicated service to the system and all it represented to her . |
| 6 | At thirty-six Tamar Garb is a Lecturer in History of Art at University College , London , and after twelve years teaching experience — three in her present job — she receives £22,000 a year . |
| 7 | If today we can see better than we could at the time the agonized grandeur of the figure of Pope Paul , the one almost ‘ liberal ’ pope of modern times , we can also see how deeply uncertain was the Church he left behind him and — after twelve years — we begin too to be able to assess in its very different character the pontificate of John Paul II . |
| 8 | Both men helped found the First International Working Men 's Association , and both contributed to its collapse after twelve years by their attacks on all other forms of socialist thought and their feud with the anarchists over maintaining full-scale industrialization . |
| 9 | And then , after twelve years she married him . |
| 10 | After twelve years with the Inland Revenue he had quit to work for Arnold Wesker 's ill-fated Centre 42 project at Chalk Farm 's Roundhouse . |
| 11 | " Look here , this boy is going to Contention , " the ex-soldier explained , " and I 'm going to Bisbee to get married after twelve years of Army . |
| 12 | ‘ When the war ended he returned to live in Italy and marry his girlfriend , but after twelve years he deserted his wife and daughter and went back to England . ’ |
| 13 | The film faithfully follows Shakespeare 's plot , characters and text and recounts how the Duke of Milan , after twelve years of exile on a magical island plots a revenge and reconciliation on his enemies . |