Example sentences of "after 40 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | WH SMITH , the retail and distribution group , is pulling out of Canada after 40 years to concentrate on expanding its US operations . |
| 2 | And if a work as trite , foolish and offensive to women as Now , Voyager should , after 40 years , remain as watchable today as on its initial release , when equally feeble plays and novels from the same period have vanished into a limbo of neglect from which they can never be retrieved , it is a tribute less to the very questionable ‘ artistry ’ of its writer and director than to the enduring fascination of its leading actress . |
| 3 | You might have thought almost no one would back the successor to an organisation that collapsed in disgrace only months ago after 40 years of misrule . |
| 4 | John Chalcraft resigned after 40 years , surviving until 1985 . |
| 5 | After 40 years of ‘ chasing mosquitoes ’ and trying to control the malaria they transmit , an eminent entomologist believes that recent policy changes by the World Health Organisation and the intervention of environmentalists have baulked the malariologists from their ultimate goal |
| 6 | During this period woody plants also begin to appear and eventually the flowery meadows turn into open scrub and , after 40 years , incipient woodland . |
| 7 | Woodland , the final stage in succession , appears only after 40 years or so ( right ) . |
| 8 | It was an order totally alien to the most basic principles of the religion they were fighting to uphold , and showed that after 40 years of the struggle , some of those fighting under the flag of the Covenant had lost sight of the most important aspects of their Faith . |
| 9 | Hence , the leaden delivery of some Euro-platitudes , by a woman who really ought to be able to do a better job of reading other people 's speeches after 40 years of doing little else , carries more political import than anything else that has been said about Europe since the election . |
| 10 | His father Vincent , now 70 , holds an OBE awarded when he retired after 40 years as an executive with the Agriculture Ministry . |
| 11 | Plainly , rock'n'roll is a durable item , and after 40 years , Big Fun is still to be found within this excellent medium . |
| 12 | He had retired from the NFI in August 1989 after 40 years of employment . |
| 13 | This is partly because politics as such are compromised in the eyes of many after 40 years of the Communist regime . |
| 14 | But after 40 years of over-ideologisation , our first task is to build proper political structures and democratic institutions . |
| 15 | But after 40 years of post-war public sector housing there is now evidence of widespread rejection , and some community groups are looking to the promise of community architecture ( Wates and Knevitt , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | after 40 years , is not only a matter of improving the buildings , but also of winning the hearts and minds of those who create and control them . |
| 17 | And the signs are that , after 40 years , the tide has turned against Britain 's factory farmers . |
| 18 | Roy Naylor says goodbye to the Company after 40 years ' service in the industry . |
| 19 | After 40 years ' service with the Wedgwood Group , Sir Arthur retired in 1986 as chairman and managing director , a post he held for nearly 20 years . |
| 20 | It would seem amazingly out of step for east European countries to be finding their national indentities after 40 years of being forced into artificial political groupings while the rest of Europe was seeking to impose federalism and political union on its member states at the same moment when they are starting down the road to a single European market — perhaps the acid test of how much one of us wants the Common Market to succeed . |
| 21 | Does not the Prime Minister realise that , after 40 years in which this country has been dogged by the uncertainty of its position in Europe , he had the opportunity to answer that question once and for all , and he ducked it ? |
| 22 | The KNU president Gen. Bo Mya , in a letter to Saw Maung dated Nov. 30 , 1989 , said that after 40 years it had been " proven beyond doubt that the civil war , which is basically a political problem , can not be settled by military means " , and that " the most correct and suitable means of achieving [ the KNU 's ] political goals is the settlement of the civil war politically , in a just and rational manner " . |
| 23 | François Mendy Kankoila , president of the Front for the Struggle for Guinea-Bissau 's National Independence ( FLING ) , arrived in Bissau on July 24 after 40 years in exile . |
| 24 | Martin Schofield retired at the end of May after 40 years service with the company . |
| 25 | After 40 years with the company , Sammy Cook retired in November . |
| 26 | Seven untreated patients were shown on colonoscopy or colectomy to have no carcinoma after 40 years and two in their late 60s ( 43 , 45 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 66 , 69 years ) . |
| 27 | Another recent attempt to produce an incidence curve using 126 patients who were screen positive for polyps , determined that 10% were detected after 40 years of age . |
| 28 | Middlesbrough 's ‘ Mr Movie ’ is retiring after 40 years in the cinema business . |
| 29 | One of the longest serving managers at Sunderland 's Cherry Knowle Hospital , George Wilkinson , retires today , after 40 years service . |