Example sentences of "year of [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After years of dealing with the likes of dullard and truculent supermarket purchasing managers , Horsley was suddenly meeting all manner of fascinating and powerful people . |
| 2 | They are told that their children will have to endure years of wandering in the wilderness , suffering because of the faithlessness of their parents , until , God tells them , ‘ … the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness ’ . |
| 3 | had had the opportunity for many years of looking at the question in its material phases , of appreciating its hygienic results … |
| 4 | After three years of operating under the same roof , the section of Art Basel devoted to contemporary prints will now move to a separate location and take place earlier than the main body of the fair . |
| 5 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 6 | I could , I could really throw the dirt at them by saying that I 'll , you know , if there is a conspiracy there 's , a person here who 's been involved in a very iffy part of the budget , who all of a sudden after ten years of slagging off the town clerk , all of a sudden he 's totally on the town clerk 's side , together with Councillor . |
| 7 | Now at least we have a manager , who after two years of stumbling in the dark , has seen the light . |
| 8 | He was not a man to whom gracious speech came easily and his cheeks , roughened and weathered by years of riding on the open moor , twitched as he sought for words . |
| 9 | GARY Wolstenholme no doubt arrived at Augusta with a set of expectations borne of years of reading about the Masters , watching the final stages on television and latterly imagining what it will be like , for he is playing in the US Masters as an automatic invitee after winning the 1991 Amateur Championship . |
| 10 | Chatting in the bar at the festival centre , the 30-year-old writer/director shows a few signs of wear ( a bad back , a persistent cold ) but is obviously still riding the adrenaline rush of getting his movie made after years of struggling on the margins of the film industry . |
| 11 | Now , after all the years of struggling against the critical tide , Anne Rice is proving herself master , or rather mistress , of her own destiny . |
| 12 | The Government had two objectives : first to improve the country 's relations with the Community , damaged by years of squabbling over the Community 's demonstrably unfair agricultural and budgetary mechanisms , which had severely disadvantaged Britain , and , second , to fulfil what was understood to be the explicit goal of the Treaty of Rome , the establishment of a free trade zone based upon economic co-operation between member states . |
| 13 | The figures have been released on the day the Samaritans mark forty years of listening to the nation 's problems . |
| 14 | After years of plotting against the Russians , he found it difficult to trust any of them . |
| 15 | If a site is being destroyed slowly , only a few finds are brought to the surface at any one time , and it may take years of plotting before the whereabouts of the site becomes apparent . |
| 16 | The Scottish Office , after five years of lobbying by the timber trade , and prompted by European Community farm surpluses , has agreed that marginal farmland previously kept for agriculture can now be used for forestry . |
| 17 | LVTA is the result of years of lobbying by the SMMT on behalf of its Specialist Car Manufacturers ' Group , chaired by Caterham 's Graham Nearn and consisting of seven companies which number Marcos , Westfield , JBA and Jago Automotive — all kit car makers — among them . |
| 18 | The law , the result of years of lobbying by the Roman Catholic church , bans abortions in private clinics and puts strict limits on them in public hospitals . |
| 19 | After five years of living with the natives and being offered the delicacy of a human thumb by cannibals — a feast which he gracefully declined — Terry was feeling homesick . |
| 20 | They looked up at her , and it was clear without anything being said that they were doing their best to cram fifty years of living into the next week or two . |
| 21 | The My Lai episode should , therefore , be a model to such peoples as the East Germans and the Romanians , who are just emerging from 50 years of living under the secret police . |
| 22 | But to me it 's innately dishonest to make claims that a cream that is basically oil and water is going to take grief and stress and fifty years of living in the sun off your face . |
| 23 | Now , after two years of living in the bus outside his parents ' house , lack of work in this country has prompted him to emigrate to Auckland , New Zealand , with Louise and son Sam , so his marvellous mobile home is now up for sale . |
| 24 | A MAN who complained of 17 years of hounding by the television licensing authority although he had never owned a TV set won a remarkable legal battle and £5,500 expenses yesterday . |
| 25 | And the decision means Tranmere 's second string will finally have quality opposition after years of languishing in the Midlands Senior League . |
| 26 | And it 's no exaggeration to say that it took years of sifting through the wreckage of myself to find a woman I could begin to take some pride in again . |
| 27 | Three hundred years of catering for the City of London were celebrated by Ring & Brymer at the Museum of London last week . |
| 28 | Many postgraduates after three years of thinking in the abstract feel quite stupid when required to think concretely . ) |
| 29 | In 10 years of filming around the globe , he 's come across Oxfam time . |
| 30 | I had the temerity to object to these insertions , because I knew full well from years of grubbing in the darker recesses of the phylum that the changes were in the mind rather than in the matter . |