Example sentences of "after 13 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wafer-thin election victory returned the British Labour Party to power after 13 years . |
| 2 | After 13 years of development the latest flight tests showed that the system , which costs an estimated $9 billion , was ‘ marginally operationally effective and marginally operationally suitable , ’ according to a recent declassifed navy report . |
| 3 | Labour 's simple , single theme is that after 13 years it is time for a change . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnock said the choice on polling day was between a Tory Party that , after 13 years in power , had proved beyond doubt it had no ambition to make Britain better and no conscience to make Britain worse , or a Labour Party with active policies to pull the country out of recession and build a lasting recovery . |
| 5 | Mr Kinnock said the choice on polling day was between a Tory Party that , after 13 years in power , had proved beyond doubt it had no ambition to make Britain better and no conscience to make Britain worse , or a Labour Party with active policies to pull the country out of recession and build a lasting recovery . |
| 6 | LABOUR received the unexpected endorsement of the Financial Times today in an editorial which criticised the Conservatives for having ‘ run out of steam ’ after 13 years in power . |
| 7 | For all the outward show of confidence among Tory front-men there was a real concern that the polls accurately reflected an anti-government mood and a disenchantment after 13 years of Tory rule . |
| 8 | Just like Americans , many Britons , with the ideological and stylistic gap between the two parties narrowing , were said to be simply ‘ bored ’ with the Tories after 13 years . |
| 9 | How , after 13 years in opposition , could the party have done more ? |
| 10 | If the Conservatives ca n't get it right after 13 years , they never will . |
| 11 | The British Marathon Runners Club will be wound up on August 1 after 13 years . |
| 12 | After 13 years of sound government , the Cabinet is packed with men of distinction , talent … and hair . |
| 13 | They hoped it would be a means of convincing voters — and their own restless supporters — that the party was still bursting with initiatives after 13 years in office . |
| 14 | You would think we all agreed that acting to end third-world poverty was our number one priority , and that we would all , with barely a sigh of regret , give up our cars , our fridge-freezers and dishwashers , would cease commuting and return to live in the cities we abandoned for the good of our children , and would generally resume our lives as good citizens after 13 years in the desert . |
| 15 | The only question is whether they will tell the Labour leader what he wants to hear or whether he does not even know what he believes about the state of Britain after 13 years of Tory rule . |
| 16 | Mr Smith added : ‘ There was no enthusiasm for this Government , no admiration for their performance , no sense that after 13 years they had delivered the goods , fulfilled promises or proved themselves worthy of the trust of the nation . ’ |
| 17 | Mr Ciampi 's move , after 13 years , from governor 's office to government will cause upheaval at the Bank of Italy . |
| 18 | Amazingly , after 13 years of black government , some old Rhodies still try to behave as if Ian Smith — ‘ Good Old Smithy ’ — was still the power in the land . |
| 19 | After 13 years of Conservative government this country is in rapid economic decline , and yet the medical and education professions seem intent on bearing responsibility for not being able to avoid the inevitable result — a decline in the nation 's health . |
| 20 | In 1988 , after 13 years with no advertising , the average tar level in cigarettes in Norway was 13mg . |
| 21 | After 13 years as a slave , Joseph becomes Pharaoh 's vizier . |
| 22 | Plans for the better distribution of population and employment were still needed , but one academic observer reported in 1957 : After 13 years the Conservatives lost office ; in the general election of October 1964 Harold Wilson won power with a slender majority of four over the other parties . |
| 23 | After 13 years in power , have the Conservatives fulfilled all their promises ? |
| 24 | WEST HAM have sacked commercial manager Brian Blower after 13 years service . |
| 25 | Award-winning journalist John Burbedge has been made redundant after 13 years with the brewing giant , Courage . |
| 26 | Shall we not , before long , see the extinguishing — after 13 years — of the three Conservative Governments who have managed to create the current situation in Wales , where gross domestic product per capita is lower than in any other region ? |
| 27 | After 13 years of Conservative government , it is the only environment Act that we have . |
| 28 | Instead of all this fake indignation , when will he own up to the fact that most of the local authorities , including my own of Knowsley , have empty properties because they are being held for improvement under schemes in which the Government are involved after 13 years in which they have neglected to fund local authority and other housing stock ? |
| 29 | After 13 years , it is an absolute disgrace that no input has been made to tackling unemployment . |
| 30 | After 13 years of so-called Tory economic miracle , how does the Secretary of State explain to industrialists in Yorkshire and Humberside why manufacturing investment there is now below the 1979 level , and why there were no measures in the Budget for manufacturers and manufacturing investment ? |