Example sentences of "[adj] years of [noun sg] behind [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The couple have run Ronald Richardson Jewellers for 16 years and have 140 years of tradition behind them . |
| 2 | Ken Preston-Mafham has over 35 000 colour slides and more than 10 years of experience behind him , so he is well qualified to offer sound advice on the trials and tribulations of photography ‘ in the field ’ . |
| 3 | With so many years of golf behind me , it was a task to recall my best round . |
| 4 | I do n't think it should become too academic , it should be whatever people want at the grassroots level , we have a couple of thousand years of patriarchy behind us and we 're not going to change things overnight . |
| 5 | Today 's cigarette has 110 years of image-making behind it . |
| 6 | In local studies , for instance , there is a local church , particularly if it is a fairly old village church with a few hundred years of history behind it . |
| 7 | He was Major Vasily Kypov , thirty-three years of service behind him , and three more to endure before the blessed release of retirement . |